Hurd, Harry E. (1889-1958)

Name:

Hurd, Harry E. (1889-1958)

Title:

Served, WWI

Other Names:

Hurd, Harry Elmore

Born:

04/23/1889

Birthplace:

Goshen, NH

Died:

07/21/1958

Death Location:

Plaistow, NH

Residence:

Lynn, MA -- 1910 census
Reading, MA -- WWI draft registration card, 1917
Quincy, MA -- 1920 census
Plaistow, NH -- WWII draft registration card, 1942, through end of life

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Author
Poet
Cleric -- Old South M. E. Church, Reading, MA, 1917
Operator, wireless telegraph -- 1910 census

Father:

Hurd, Ernest H. (c.1869-)

Mother:

Pike, Jennie L. (c.1871-)

Relations:

Sibling: Mildred F. Hurd (c.1899-; m. Harrison Underhill)
Parents: Jennie L. Pike (c.1871-; Goshen, NH) and Ernest H. Hurd (c.1867-; Real Estate Agent) of Sunapee, NH, and Lynn, MA
Grandparents: Martha A. Greeley (c.1836-) and Sylvanus Hurd (c.1831-) of Wendell and Sunapee, NH; Mary F. Purrington (c.1844-) and [Elien W.] Pike (c.1839-) of Goshen, NH
Great-grandparents: Dolly Baker (c.1800-) and Ira Hurd (1798-) of Goshen, Wendell, and Sunapee, NH; Joanna (c.1795-) and Philip Greeley (c.1798-) of Wendell, NH
Great-great-grandparents: Mary B. Atwood and Peter Hurd (1771-)
Great-great-great-grandparents: Ruth Labree (1747-; Charlestown, NH) and Nathan Hurd (1745/6-; Killingworth, CT)

Spouse:

1) Lillian P.,
2) Eleanor

Notes:

References in will to: "Grampa" Thompson of North Conway, N.H.; my sister Mildred (Mrs. Harrison) Underhill, now of Mound City, Kansas; Mrs. J. Fred Turner, now of 194 Wibird St., Portsmouth, New Hampshire, my mother's only living sister; and Grandfather Pike.
Selection of books/poems written by Harry Elmore Hurd:
1923 book, Possessions of a Sky Pilot
1933 co-author book, Christ in the Breadline (religious & proletarian poetry)
1938 piece in Women's Home Companion
1940 piece in Saturday Evening Post
1941 piece in Rotarian Magazine
1946 book, Yankee Boundaries
1954, piece in Nature Magazine, "White Christmas in Goshen"
n.d. Mountains and Molehills, written in North Conway, N.H.
n.d. Cowbell at Evening

Plaistow Town Cemeterry, Plaistow, NH