Bios of Harlan, Carl R. (b.1894) Wabasha Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Barbara Timm ========================================================================= This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920. Check out Barbara's site for more great information on this book: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab3.htm There are also some pictures and information from descendents for some of the bios on her pages. Harlan, Carl R. (page 556), a prosperous young farmer of Oakwood Township, where the Harlan family has been established half a century, was born on his parents' farm in this township, February 23, 1894, son of Charles and Catherine (Hall) Harlan. He acquired his education in the rural schools and his agricultural training on the home farm, on which he resided until 1919. He then rented the Paul Polson farm of 200 acres in section 22, where he is now following general diversified farming and stock raising, keeping grade Durham cattle, Duroc-Jersey swine and Percheron horses. The cattle he raises both for beef and dairy purposes. He owns 120 acres of the home estate willed to him by his father and in the spring of 1920 bought 160 acres which his grandfather homesteaded, making in all 280 acres in a body. He is a member of the Catholic church and of the Knights of Columbus. On June 13, 1918, Mr. Harlan was married to Mae Lyon, daughter of G. H. and Mary (Ryan) Lyon, of Highland Township, and early settlers in Wabasha County. They had a family of eight children, five of whom are now living: Patrick, George, Edward, Margaret, wife of Joe Langer of Texas, and Mae, wife of Carl R. Harlan. Those deceased are: Rebecca, Lawrence, and Theresa, who married Herman Wempner. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan are the parents of one child, Catherine, who was born April 7, 1920. Webmaster's Notes: This biography always seemed very confusing to me. One would think that the Mr. Harlan married to Mae Lyon is the subject of the biography, but it goes on to say that one of their children is married to a man with the same name as her father. Then, after all that, it names a new Mr. and Mrs. Harlan, parents of one child! But thanks to Dan, whose wife's Grandmother was Loretta (Harlan) Gessner, we have a clarification. Mae (Mary) married Robert Ham. The fourteenth child in the biography below is none other than Carl R. Harlan, subject of this biography. More Clarification: Jack writes: I was looking again the other day at the collection of Wabasha County Biographies and noted the need for further clarification on the bio. of Carl R. Harlan (my grandfather). At the point of the bio. that begins "They had a family of eight children..." this is in reference to the parents of Mary (Mae) Lyons, who married Carl R. Harlan. It was Mary Delores Harlan (daughter of Carl and Mary ~ Mae) who married Bob Ham. And the 14th child of Charles and Catherine Harlan is not Carl...it was Mae Harlan, who was married to Henry Rheingans and farmed in Oakwood township at the time of the Bio. To further confuse matters, Carl R Harlan's real name was Charles Raphael Harlan, but he was better known as Carl.