Harmonists

a socialistic community founded upon a religious basis by George Rapp, of Wiirtemberg, in the Con no que ne ing Valley, twenty-five miles from Pittsburg, in 1803. There they built houses, churches, mills and manufactories, and by 1805 there were 750 persons settled there, who formed the Harmony Society. After two years they decided to adopt celibacy, and prohibited the use of tobacco. This caused the withdrawal of certain of their people. In 1814 the Harmonists purchased 30,000 acres of land in Posey County, Indiana, settling there in 1815. There they remained until 1824, calling their settlement ‘‘Harmony.” In 1824 they removed to their present location, on the Ohio River, not far from Pittsburg. In 1831, a German adventurer, Bernhard Miiller, settling among them, caused di ensions and a split in the society. - Harney, William S. (1800-1889), joined the U. S. army in 1818, was brevetted major-general in 1865 for long and faithful service chiefly against the Indians, and at the time of his death was the oldest officer in the U. S. Army.