KRAMER, HAROLD MORTON: 1873-1930.
Harold Morton Kramer was born in Frankfort, Ind., Apr. 28, 1873. The youngest of ten children born to Philip Edward and Mary Choate Kramer, he was educated in the Frankfort public schools.
On Sept. 6, 1897, he married Miss Nora Caroline Lee, a teacher.
In April, 1898, he enlisted in Company C, 158th Infantry in the Spanish-American War and was commissioned first lieutenant. In 1917 Mr. Kramer entered service for the first World War. Being over age for armed service, he became a Y.M.C.A. secretary and was sent to the front in France, where he served both American and English soldiers and did some lecturing for the Y.M.C.A.
Mr. Kramer's first trade was that of printer, from which he advanced to editorial work, becoming night editor of the DAILY MORNING TIMES of Frankfort . In 1910 he retired from newspaper work to enter the lecture field. In 1925 he was elected executive secretary of the International Lyceum Association with headquarters in Chicago. He filled this office until his sudden death Mar. 20, 1930, in Chicago .
Information from Mrs. Harold Morton Kramer.
- Hearts and the Cross. Boston,
1906.
- Gayle Langford; Being the Romance of a Tory Belle and a
Patriot Captain. Boston, 1907.
- The Castle of Dawn. Boston,
[1908].
- The Chrysalis. Boston, 1909.
- The Rugged Way. Boston, 1911.
- With Seeing Eyes; the Unusual Story of an Observant Thinker
at the Front. Boston, 1919.
