Oscar B. Harmon
From Black Hawk Slept Here
Michigan's Early Military Forces (2003) lists an O.B. Harmon as having served as a private in Powers' Company, from May 21 through June 21, 1832.
This person appears to have been Oscar B. Harmon, who entered land in Branch, St. Joseph, and Lenawee counties. Powers' Company was from St. Joseph county.
The History of St. Joseph county, Michigan (1877) has the following information about him:
On page 97:
The first merchant outside of Centreville, in Nottawa, was 0. B. Harmon, who sold goods in 1830, on section one to the Indians and white people.
On page 99, under "Marriage Records"
In May [1833], Mr. Clerk Clowes granted absolution to Ira Thurston and Amanda Fletcher; and in November granted the same indulgence to Oscar B. Harmon and Eunice McMillen.
On page 225, speaking of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mendon, and probably referring to the same Mr. Harmon, given that no other person with that name is mentioned in the book:
...it has one thousand volumes in its library, the largest in the county, and which has been provided for by a most zealous and worthy sister of the church, Paulina (Harmon) McMillan, who endowed the library with eight hundred dollars, the interest of which is to be expended annually for books perpetually. Miss McMillan inherited a snug fortune from Mr. Harmon, who adopted her as his child and made her his heir, and she has been a most liberal donor to the Methodist Episcopal society, giving them a parsonage, valued at two thousand dollars, besides numerous other benefactions.
Two of Oscar Harmon's land entries were in St. Joseph County, both in Nottawa Township. One was in the above-mentioned section 1. He bought the W½SW and NESW of that section, 120 acres in all.
Section 1 is immediately to the south of the Nottawasepe reservation, and immediately to the west of the site of "Fort Hogan" of the Black Hawk war.
