Harlan L. Philbrook Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Ranee Egee - raneeegee@hotmail.com

Surname: PHILBROOK
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 

Page 948

   HARLAN L. PHILBROOK, who is a very useful and one of the best 
known citizens of Exeter, serving as an efficient member of the police 
force and also as a driver for the steam engine of the city fire de-

Page 949

partment, was born at Northampton, N. H., August 10, 1860, and is a 
son of Henry M. and Rebecca F. (Leavitt) Philbrook.  The father was 
born at Thornton, N. H., but was reared at Northampton.  He followed 
the trade of a machinist.  The mother was a native of Northampton and 
both died there.  They were members of the Congregational Church, 
good, worthy people in every relation of life.  They had two sons:  
Willard H., a resident of Northampton, and Harlan L.
   Harlan L. Philbrook attended the public schools in his native place 
and for two years the Hampton Academy, afterward learning the car-
penter trade, which he followed until 1884, when he came to Exeter, 
since which time he has been more or less in official life.  He has 
proved dependable and is a man who commands general respect and 
has a wide circle of personal friends.
   On June 20, 1883, Mr. Philbrook was married to Miss Anna W. 
Jenness, of Exeter, who is a daughter of Levi M. and Eliza Jane (God-
frey) Jenness.  The father of Mrs. Philbrook was a farmer.  She has one 
sister, Ellen, who is the wife of Sylvanus G. Morse.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Philbrook have the following children:  May L., who is the wife of 
Irvin C. Philbrook, and they have three children, Marion S., John and 
Harlan; Edith J., who is the wife of Frank R. Goodale, and they have 
three children,  Frank E.,  Alice and Ruth;  Leonard M. and Frances J., 
the last named being a student at Wellesley College.   The family 
attend the First Congregational Church.  In politics Mr. Philbrook is a 
Republican as was his father.  He belongs to the Odd Fellows, Knights 
of Pythias, the local Grange, the New England Order of Protection, the 
Royal Arcanum and various other societies.

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