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James L. Harlan December 26, 1828 - 
Boyle County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886

JAMES L. HARLAN was born December 26, 1828, where he now resides, two miles 
west of Danville, and son of Elijah and Sallie (Moore) Harlan, to whom two sons 
and eight daughters were born and reared, James L. being the eighth. Elijah 
Harlan was born at Harlan Station on Salt River, Boyle County, Ky. He served as 
sergeant in the war of 1812, Shelby's campaign. In 1812 he located where James 
L. now resides, on 350 acres, which he cleared and improved; built a stone 
house in the same year, which is still standing and occupied by James Harlan, 
who married Mary Caldwell, both natives of Virginia, located in Mercer, now 
Boyle County, as early as 1780 or 1785, where Harlan Station now stands; 
remained here until his death in 1836. James Harlan, with seven sons, 
participated in Shelby's campaign; each of these seven sons sent a son to the 
Mexican war, and the latter had sons in the late civil war. The Harlan family 
sprang from two brothers who came from Wales and settled in Pennsylvania, and 
from those spring all the known Harlans. Many of the early families 
participated in the war for independence. Sallie (Moore) Harlan was born in 
Boyle County and was a daughter of Lawson Moore, who came from Virginia as 
early as 1785, settled about one mile west of Danville, and who married Jane 
Rochester, daughter of Col. John Rochester, one of the earliest settlers and 
merchants of Danville, Ky. James L. was reared where he now resides, and 
received a good English education. In June, 1846, he enlisted for the Mexican 
war in Capt. S. S. Fry's company, Second Kentucky, participated in the battles 
of Buena Vista and Monterey. After his return resumed farming and trading, 
which he has successfully followed all his life, and now owns 225 acres. April 
5, 1855, he was married to Lettie Maxwell, of Marion County, daughter of Joseph 
and Eunice (Stiles) Maxwell, of Marion County, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan had born, to bless their union, ten children: Jennie M., Eunice (now McCord), Julia (now Starks), Elijah, James L. (deceased), Joseph M., Hugh Lee, John M., Charles M., Walter Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan are devoted members of the Presbyterian Church. He is an F. & A. M., was a member of the Grange. Mr. Harlan is one of the largest men in the county and is known as Big Jim Harlan. In politics he is a Democrat; prior to 1860 was a stanch Whig.



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