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Mars came from a family of preachers connected for generations to the Narragansett Indian Church in [[Charlestown, Rhode Island]]. Mars was also a carpenter, [[cabinet maker]] and building contractor.<ref name = "Obit">"Rev. Harold S. Mars Sr., 78, clergyman for 51 years, dies", ''The Providence Journal'', November 27, 1989 (with correction published November 28, 1989).</ref><ref name ="Simmons">William S. Simmons, [https://archive.org/details/narragansett00simm/ ''The Narragansett''], Indians of North America series, New York: Chelsea House, 1989, p. 80-81, 84-86.</ref><ref>[http://charlestowncitizens.org/2018/03/18/tomaquag-museums-new-narragansett-indian-church-exhibit "Tomaquag Museum's New Narragansett Indian Church Exhibit"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210064834/http://charlestowncitizens.org/2018/03/18/tomaquag-museums-new-narragansett-indian-church-exhibit/ |date=2018-12-10 }}, ''Charlestown Citizens Alliance'', March 18, 2018.</ref> He was once profiled on the cover of the ''[[The Providence Journal|Providence Sunday Journal Magazine]]''.<ref>''Providence Sunday Journal Magazine'', May 28, 1986.</ref>
Mars attended [[University of Rhode Island|Rhode Island State College]], the [[Northpoint Bible College|Zion Bible Institute]] in [[Haverhill, Massachusetts]], and [[Anderson University (Indiana)|Anderson College]] in Indiana. He was ordained to Christian ministry in 1938, at the former First Church of God in Kingston.<ref name = "Obit"/> Mars earned five dollars a day during the 1940s preaching to congregations in [[Providence, Rhode Island]], [[Peace Dale, Rhode Island]], and Wakefield.<ref>Among others he was pastor of the Nazarene Church in Wakefield, RI, and established and was pastor of the First Church of God in Peace Dale, RI. (See obituary notice, "Rev. Harold S. Mars Sr., 78, clergyman for 51 years, dies", op. cit.)</ref>
In 1951 he moved his family to Rochester, where he led the
Mars was interviewed by the folklorist [[William Simmons (anthropologist)|William Simmons]] as a source for [[New England]] Native American lore and spirituality.<ref name = "Simmons2">William S. Simmons, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RDlODwAAQBAJ&dq=reverend+harold+mars&pg=PA152 ''Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984''], Hanover : University Press of New England, 1986, p. 152 ff.</ref><ref>William S. Simmons, [https://archive.org/details/narragansett00simm/ ''The Narragansett''], op. cit., p. 97-99.</ref> Mars stated that he could trace his ancestry from his father White Buffalo, also a preacher to Christian Indians, to the family of James, brother of "Father Sam" (Samuel Niles), the founder of the Narragansett Indian Church in the 1740s.<ref name = "Davis">Paul Davis, “One Nation, Two Worlds - Preacher carries on “the call” handed down through generations", ''Providence Journal'', August 4, 2004.</ref><ref>"One Nation - Two Worlds - Centuries of Struggle - From church to citadel, Narragansetts endure", ''Providence Journal'', August 4, 2004.</ref>
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