PROF. HAROLD K MARKS, eldest son of Prof. Clement A. Marks, Mus. D., and his wife. Kate M., nee Kemnierer, was born in Emmaus. Pa., May 12, 1886. He was graduated from the Allentown high school in 1903 and from Muhlenberg College in 1907, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Following in the footsteps of his eminent father, he took up music, becoming organist of St. Michael's Lutheran Church. Allentown, in the spring of 1907, where he continued until 1910, when he became organist of Zion's Reformed Church, but after his father had died in 1912, he was elected to fill the position in St. John's Lutheran church, made vacant by his father's death. His musical studies he had begun under his father, supplementing later on the piano with Prof. Albert Ross Parsons, of NY, and on the pipe organ with Prof. it Huntington Woodman- of Brooklyn, NY, musical theory with Hugh A. Clarke. Mus. D. of the University of PA. Prof. Marks had been instructor of vocal music at the Allentown College for Women from 1909 to 1911; instructor of the high school glee club and orchestra; is the present accompanist of the Allentown Oratorio Society, and in 1913 was elected to fill the position held by his father in Muhlenberg College.


Mr. Marks is a member of Jordan Lodge. No. 673, F. & A. M.

Politically he is an Independent voter, is a member of the Lutheran Church and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. On Oct. 19, 1910, he was married to Edna Irene Clauss, born Feb. 13, 1887, a daughter of Lewis D. and Jane A. (Hunsicker) Clauss. Mrs. Marks is a cultured and prominent soprano singer. They reside at 314 North Franklin Street, Allentown.