Biography 1. Date of Birth & Birth Place Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. 2. Childhood John A. Truman sold and bought livestock form a lot adjacent to their house when Harry was first born. When Harry was ten months old the Trumans sold their house and stocklot to move to Harrisonville, Missouri. From Harrisonville they moved to Belton, then to Grandview, and finally settled in Independence, Missouri when Harry Truman was six years old. President Truman was the oldest of three children and the only one born in Lamar. His brother John Vivian, was born on April 25, 1885, at Belton, Missouri and his sister, Mary Jane, was born August 12, 1889, in Grandview, Missouri. Harry grew up on a farms all his life. he was forbidden to play roughhouse games because of his glasses. He was a bookworm--a sissy, as he said himself later on, using the ....

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