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Here are a few points of history of the Harmony Community which have been gathered from the very meager records at the Cowlitz Mission and from the memories of the living descendents of the early pioneers in this territory.

Father Ewald Soland, O.F.M. was the first Franciscan priest whose name appears in the Baptismal records of Harmony. The first Baptism recorded is that of Irene Flynn, May 29, 1910, "in the Harmony School," and on the same day "in the home," those of Lillian and Rose Schmitt.

Before the church was built at Harmony, the priests would come occasionally from St. Francis Mission on the Cowlitz Prairie to say Mass in one of the private homes or in the school house.

Mrs. Charlotte Shuler, a daughter of the pioneer Flynns, gives us the following notes on the early days of Harmony: "One year we went down to St. Francis Mission for Confirmation. Four wagons and teams took the Hadallers, Schmitts, Dunns and Flynn. It took all day to make the trip. They had just finished the new priests' house at the Mission; so we camped in the old one that night and returned the next day. Fourteen were confirmed by Bishop Edward O'Dea.

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