MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO BIO: HARLAN, Benjamin B. (published 1882)
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"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio." by W. H. Beers & Co., pub. 1882
page 285


    BENJAMIN B. HARLAN, teacher, Germantown, was born in Clinton County, 
Ohio, March 23, 1845, and is a son of David M. and Margaret Harlan, he a 
native of Kentucky and she of North Carolina, the former born in 1809, and 
the latter in 1815.  The family are of Irish and Scotch extraction, and our 
subject's parents are residing in Lafayette County, Mo.  Benjamin B. was 
educated at Lebanon, Ohio, and followed farming until twenty-two years of 
age, since which time he has been engaged in teaching; has taught in 
Germantown six years, two of which he has been Superintendent of the school.  
In 1874, he married Margaret H. Bond, daughter of John E. and Elizabeth 
(Custis) Bond, all natives of Ohio; her paternal grandfather, George Bond, 
was from Maryland, and Thomas Custis, the maternal grandfather, was a native 
of the "Old Dominion."  Mrs. Harlan has had two children--George B. and Mary. 
 He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity and I. O. O. F., and as an educator 
has given general satisfaction.