Sometime prior to 1910, Hardy began styling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy," with the first name “Oliver” being added as a tribute to his father. He subsequently decided to go back to Milledgeville. His mother recognized his talent for singing, and sent him to Atlanta to study music and voice with singing teacher Adolf Dahm-Petersen, but Hardy skipped some of his lessons to sing in the Alcazar Theater, a cinema, for US$3.50 a week. He joined a theatrical group, and later ran away from a boarding school near Atlanta to sing with the group. He had little interest in education, although he acquired an early interest in music and theater, possibly from his mother’s tenants.
However, he was in the junior high component of that institution (the equivalent of high school today), not the two-year college which exists today. In the 1905/1906 school year, fall semester (September–January), when he was 13, Hardy was sent to Young Harris College in north Georgia. He was sent to Georgia Military College in Milledgeville as a youngster. As a child, Hardy was sometimes difficult. Hardy pulled his brother from the river but was unable to resuscitate him. A traumatic moment in his life was the death of his brother Sam Hardy in a drowning accident in the Oconee River. His father died less than a year after his birth. It is probable that Norvell was born in Harlem, though some sources say it was in his mother’s home town, Covington. Norvell’s mother owned a house in Harlem, which was either empty or tenanted by her mother.
The family moved to Madison in 1891, before Norvell’s birth. He was of paternal English American descent and maternal Scottish American descent. Their marriage took place on Mait was the second marriage for the widow Emily, and the third for Oliver. Her family arrived in Virginia before 1635. His mother, Emily Norvell, the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Norvell and Mary Freeman, was descended from Captain Hugh Norvell of Williamsburg, Virginia. After his demobilization as a recruiting officer for Company K, 16th Georgia Regiment, the elder Oliver Hardy assisted his father in running the vestiges of the family cotton plantation, bought a share in a retail business and was elected full-time Tax Collector for Columbia County. His father, Oliver, was a Confederate veteran wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. In some of his earlier films produced before teaming with Stan Laurel, he was billed as Babe Hardy. Oliver "Ollie" Hardy (born Norvell Hardy) Janu– August 7, 1957) was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.
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