Homeville of David Harum - Homer, NY
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ripraff
N 42° 38.164 W 076° 10.706
18T E 403382 N 4721075
The small village of Homer, NY embraces its role as Homeville in the book "David Harum". There is a sign in the Village Green and a title on a building across from the green. "David Harum" "sold an impressive 400,000 copies during" 1899.
Waymark Code: WMPYXE
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 11/13/2015
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David Harum is based on David Hannum, a horse trader who lived in Homer.
text on sign: " David Hannum (1822-1891) horse trader and investor in the Hoax "The Cardiff Giant" and on whose life the 1898 novel is based, lived in Homer. Portrayed as a horse trader, banker and humanitarian residing in "Homeville", David Harum was subsequently adapted as a play, a silent and talking film, and a radio program."
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"The main appeal of the work seems to have been to businessmen, attracted by its approval of a much more relaxed code of business ethics then was presented in most novels of the time. Harum was an inveterate horse-trader and considered engaging in the dubious practices long associated with this activity as morally justified by the expectation that similar practices would be employed by his adversary. In principle, he contended that this made horse-trading quite different from other lines of business, yet in practice most business dealings seemed to him to be a species of horse trading, justifying considerable deviation from conventional standards of probity...the resemblance of the fictitious David Harum, banker and horse trader from the (also fictitious) central New York village of Homeville, and the real David Hannum, banker and horse trader from the (real) central New York village of Homer was too great to deny. "