Biography
Born in Fayette, New York, he was the son of Dr. David M. Harkness and Martha Cook. Martha Harkness died in 1820 and his father Dr. David M. Harkness relocated to the Western Reserve region of Northeast Ohio, settling in Milan. In Milan, his father remarried Elizabeth Ann Caldwell Morrison. Dr. Harkness had one son, Daniel M. Harkness, by his second wife Elizabeth. Dr. David M. Harkness died in 1825 and his widow Elizabeth later returned to Seneca County, New York where she remarried to the Reverend Isaac Flagler, a Presbyterian minister in Milton, New York with whom she had a son, Henry Flagler. Stephen's half-brother was Daniel M. Harkness who was also Henry Flagler's half-brother.
Stephen Harkness married Laura Osborne in 1842 with whom he had three children. Two of the children died very young. The third child, son Lamon, lived to the age of 65; Laura died on Aug. 23, 1852 and is buried in Bellevue, Ohio. In 1854, after the death of his first wife, he married Anna M. Richardson and had 3 children - Charles W. Harkness, Florence Harkness and Edward S. Harkness.
Stephen V. and Anna M. Harkness are buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio near J.D. Rockefeller.
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