Background
Daniel Harmon was born on February 19, 1778, at Bennington, Vermont, United States, the son of Daniel and Lucrecia (Dewey) Harmon.
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Daniel Harmon was born on February 19, 1778, at Bennington, Vermont, United States, the son of Daniel and Lucrecia (Dewey) Harmon.
At Montreal, in April 1800, Daniel Harmon was engaged as a clerk by the North-West Company, and was assigned to the Far West. Leaving Montreal on the 28th, his party proceeded by the usual route of the trappers and arrived at Little Lake Winnipeg on August 24. For ten years he served the company at various posts in the present Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and in the fall of 1810 crossed the mountains to British Columbia, where he remained nearly nine years.
As clerk, regional superintendent, and ultimately a partner of the company, Harmon made journeys through the wilderness that aggregated many thousands of miles. During the whole period he kept a record (though not a continuous one) of his travels and dealings with the Indians, to which he added many observations on the country and the character and customs of the savages, as well as occasional moral reflections. He jotted down, also, the various scraps of news that reached him - the arrival of Lewis and Clark at the Mandan villages in the fall of 1804; that of David Thompson and his party of Northwesterners at the mouth of the Columbia in 1811 only to find the Americans already in possession, and the sale of Astoria in 1813. The return journey was made in 1819, and he seems to have arrived in Vermont early in 1820.
On his marriage Harmon probably settled his family in Burlington, and after intrusting his journal to the Rev. Daniel Haskell, of that town, he seems again to have started for the Northwest. Of his subsequent movements nothing is definitely known except that he returned to Montreal, where he died.
His Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interiour of North America, rewritten by Haskell, was published in Andover, New Hampshire, in the fall of 1820, and in 1903 was reprinted, with a brief introduction by Robert Waite, in New York City. In spite of the labors of Haskell to make the work not only “literary” but somewhat pious, much remains of what must have been its original character - a descriptive narrative marked by a naive simplicity and matter-of-fact straightforwardness.
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Harmon took as a common-law wife Elizabeth Laval on October 5, 1805, at South Branch House, Northwest Territory, British America and had 12 children.
