HARMON R. NORTRUP, attorney-at-law, Havana; was born near Quackenbruck, Hanover, Germany, April 6, 1852; he came to America when about 13 years of age, and located at Havana, his present home, in the fall of 1865, here he followed clerking and bookkeeping for a few years, and, in 1870, was appointed Deputy County Clerk, of Mason Co., serving in that capacity for a period of about three years. He entered the Lincoln (Ill.) University in 1873, and, two years later, Went to Chicago, where he remained for a few months; he then returned to Havana, and read law in the office of Dearborn & Campbell until the fall of 1877, when he entered the law school at Albany, N. Y., from which he graduated May 21. 1878, and was admitted to the bar of that State the same date; he then returned to Havana and opened a law office, being admitted to the bar of Illinois in June, 1878. Mr. Nortrup is a member of Havana Lodge, No. 88, A., F. & A. M. He is now City Attorney and Public Administrator of Mason Co.



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