Background
Harkness, James Stewart was born on November 18, 1867 in Springfield, Fifeshire, Scotland. Son of James Fleming and Jane (McKenzie) Harkness.
Harkness, James Stewart was born on November 18, 1867 in Springfield, Fifeshire, Scotland. Son of James Fleming and Jane (McKenzie) Harkness.
Educational public schools Scotland, and Wesleyan Methodist Seminary, Houghton, New New York (Doctor of Divinity, Dakota Wesleyan University).
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1890. Pastor Bradley, South Dakot, 1890-1895. Webster, 1895-1903, Redfield, 1903-1908.
Field secretary Conference Claimant Endowment Fund, 1908-1909.
District superintendent Aberdeen District, 1909-1915, Mitchell District, 1915-1921. Vice president Dakota Wesleyan University, since 1921.
President Methodist Eastern State Hospital, Mitchell, South Dakot. Treasurer Conference Board of Trustees, Dakota
Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church.
Mason.
Married Minnie Elenor Griner, of Watertown, South Dakot, June 8, 1892.