updated
02/23/2010

My father, Earl E. Harrington was the son of Ruth Harrington and step-son of George Harrington. Earl and his siblings took the last name of Harrington by "mutual consent" after the marriage of Ruth Enders (nee Knoebel) to George V. Harrington. They were never legally adopted by George V. Harrington as stated in two notarized statements - one to the military by Ruth (see affidavit below) and one by George to the Rail Road retirement board when dad retired - that Earl E. Enders and Earl E. Harrington were one and the same person and how they came to take the name Harrington.  In later life my Dad referred to George V. Harrington as his father.  This explains to future generations of genealogists researching the family, why there is a death certificate for Earl E. Harrington but no birth record under that name. ....... Lisa Woiwood

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Earl E. Harrington (1915-1999) in his World War II Army uniform and his wife, Elsie Harrington nee Lawrence (1920-1997) in her Auxiliary Territorial Service (A.T.S) uniform. Elsie was a British war bride of E.E. Harrington.

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	Registration Certificate Earl Esten Harrington Marquette, Iowa registered October 16, 1940 registrar: L.E. Schott
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Enlisted Man's Identification Card European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army S/Sgt Earl E. Harrington Home: Marquette, Iowa Birthplace McGregor, Iowa Birthdate: December 27, 1915 ID issued January 21, 1944
top image is front of card bottom image is the back

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Signal Corps Radar School Certificate

Certificate of Merit 413th Anti Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion

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Affidavit Above is the affidavite of Ruth Knoebel Harrington, certifying that her son Tech. Sgt. 3 Earl E. Enders and Earl E. Harrington were one in the same person; and that George Harrington never legally adopted her children but that Earl took the Harrington name. Ruth's surname is misspelled as Knaebel throughout the document.

Request for transportation of Dependents from England In the above document, my father, Earl E. Harrington (aka Andy Harrington), requests transport for my mother, Elsie Harrington (nee Lawrence), his British War Bride from England to the United States. Dated 9 October 1945, Separation Center #33, Camp McCoy, Wisconsin.

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~source: original records
~contributed by Lisa Woiwood, daughter of E.E. Harrington & Elsie Lawrence Harrington. Lisa's email contact info. can be found in the Clayton co. IAGenWeb surname registry for Knoebel and Harrington. See also, Lisa's Knoebel Family Album.

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