Helping Her Fellow Citizens One Act of Service at a Time By Emily Spuhler Originally Published in Fall 2019 Nostalgia News A volunteer, dedicated educator, and benefactor are just a few ways to describe Ethel Harnett. She was born in 1886 in Williamsburg, Indiana, now known as Nineveh. James and Amanda Harnett, her parents, [...]
What was supposed to be six weeks of military training camp morphed into an intensive medical emergency late in 1918. As soon as the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, Franklin College began to lose men to the war effort, some to officers’ training at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, others [...]
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