History of Harvard

The Harvard Courier newspaper carried an article on the history of Harvard in their August 29, 1918 issue.

G. J. Thomas can be found identified as Griffith J. Thomas or J. Griffith Thomas. He was born in Wales in 1847 and was living with his wife Anna in Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin in 1880. He listed his profession as Postmaster, formerly printer. 

Thomas's first appointment as Harvard Postmaster was in 1898 and he appears to have served in that position through 1923, shortly after Anna died. 

In any event, Postmaster Thomas was qualified to write this history of his adopted town. He and his wife are buried in the Harvard Cemetery.