Harger, Charles Moreau, journalist and author, was born at Phelps, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1863, a son of Henry and Martha (Densmore) Harger. He graduated in the Phelps Classical School with the class of 1881, and subsequently received the degree of L. H. D. and Litt. D. from Bethany College and Baker University. Upon coming to Kansas he engaged in teaching, and for some time he was principal of the public schools at Hope, Dickinson county, where on Oct. 3, 1889, he married Miss Blanche Bradshaw. In 1888 he became editor of the Abilene Reflector, and in 1905 he was made a director and lecturer in the department of journalism in the University of Kansas. Mr. Harger is a Republican and a prominent Mason, being a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a contributor to magazines and periodicals and a writer of peculiar force and charm.