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Bohr Living Trust 8/2008
As Director of The Hartford City Public Library, I, The Library Board of Trustees,
The Hartford City Public Library Staff and Community would like to thank The Bohr L
Living Trust for Arlene Bohr’s generous donation to the library in her husband
Harry Bohr’s name.
Harry was one of our great patrons who used the library daily and wanted to do everything he could to help the library and the community. Harry was born in Hartford City, graduating in 1931, during the horrible financial crisis of the century. During this time there was unlimited travel by train, and during his teenage years Harry, with his best friend Ralph, decided to ride the trains as teenage hobos and see the country. Harry wrote a book about his adventures as a hobo entitled Teenage Hobos a Memoir.
Similar to the story of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn floating down the Mississippi River on a raft, Teenage Hobos is the tale of two sixteen year old friends who joined the hobos riding the rails during the Great Depression. Harry’s book is available for check out at
The Hartford City Public Library.
After his hobo travels, Harry worked in the glass cutting trade until his retirement. Harry and his wife Arlene traveled extensively but always called Hartford City home.
We at the library all miss Harry’s talks and encouragement for the library. He would have been thrilled with all of the new technology and advances the library has made. He always encouraged Indiana authors and genealogy pursuits. We hope to use Arlene’s generous donation in Harry’s name to to further these endeavors with possibly a new microfilm reader with newspapers on CD and materials for our new Indiana Room in our future expansion of the library. Arlene’s gift will make our continued support possible for advances the library needs to make in our great community!
Thank you,
Vicki Cecil, Director
Hartford City Public Library
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