Background
Flagler, Harry Harkness was born on December 2, 1870 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of late Henry M. and Mary (Harkness) F.
Flagler, Harry Harkness was born on December 2, 1870 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of late Henry M. and Mary (Harkness) F.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1897. Honorary Doctor of Music, New York University.
Not a professional musician but for years has devoted time largely to promotion of music in New New York A reorganizer of Symphony Society of New York and its president many years, assuming its entire financial backing, 1914-1928, consolidated, 1928, with Philharmonic Society and he became president of new organization (The Philharmonic-Symphony Society) which office he resigned, October 1934. President Millbrook (New York) Free Library.
Member France-America Society, Pilgrims of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations, English-Speaking Union, Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon. Club: Century.
Married Anne Lamont, April 25, 1894 (died 1939). Children: Mary Harkness (Mistress Melbert B. Cary, Junior.