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James L. Harlan (Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1828 d. 1904

Boyle County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Sarah Harlan. Married to Lettie Maxwell Harlan. Father of Jane C. Harlan, M. W. Harlan, Jennie G. Harlan, Elizabeth Eunice Harlan, Elijah Harlan, Julie Harlan, James L. Harlan, and Joseph M. Harlan. Farmer in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned seventeen enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Farmer in Boyle County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Farmer in Boyle County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 349A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 572, 574.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 841.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 155B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Precinct 3, p. 206B.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Boyle County, KY, August 1863.

"James Lawson Harlan (1828-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial #42933078, accessed October 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42933078.

Citation

Harlan, James L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210875 (November 12, 2026).

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