Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography: B. F. HARLOW ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: 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 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. Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, , 1998. ************************************************************************** B. F. HARLOW - born in Albemarle County, Virginia, July 20, 1835 was a son of Henry Martin HARLOW and Mary Elizabeth HARLOW nee HAWLEY. He received a common-school education and at the age of sixteen went into the printing business. At eighteen he became one of the editors of the Farmer's Friend, a weekly paper published in Union, Monroe County, (then) Virginia. In 1855 he took charge of the Greenbrier Era, which he edited until November, 1858, when he went to Memphis, Tennessee, and there took a position on the Daily Bulletin. In 1859 he returned to Lewisburg and entered upon the practice of law, in which he continued until the outbreak of the war between the States. He enlisted as a private in the Greenbrier Cavalry (Confederate), served until made prisoner in May, 1862, was imprisoned at Charleston and at Wheeling, then at Camp Chase (Ohio) and exchanged in the latter part of 1862. Returned to his regiment and served until discharged for disability incurred in service and during imprisonment. In 1863 he was contributor to the Lynchburg Daily Republican, and in 1864 was assigned to duty in the post office department, Confederate service. At the close of the war, broken in health, crippled in pocket, debarred from practice by his inability to take the "Attorneys Test Oath", he contributed a short time to the Lynchburg Daily News. Then, in 1865, in Lewisburg he established the Greenbrier Independent, which he still continues. He has also become a successful farmer. He has never been a candidate for or held an office of emolument, but was a delegate at large from the third congressional district of West Virginia to the Democratic National convention which met in Cincinnati in 1880. He was on the committee on organization in that body. February 28, 1867, he married Henrietta Clay RENICK, daughter of B. F. RENICK, Esq., and from that union eight children have been born: Rose Belle, Annie Virginia, Henry Martin, Benjamin Lacy, Henrietta Caroline, Mary Evelyn, Homer Holt, and Austin HARLOW. Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia. New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884. Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock, 1974.