Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JUDGE FLETCHER G. HARLAN is a son of F. D. and Sarah J. (Bryan) Harlan, 
who were natives of Monroe County, Ky., the former of whom was born in 
the year 1805.  He was by profession a physician, and was surgeon in the 
Mexican war with the rank of major; he was a son of Jacob Harlan, a 
native of Virginia, and one of the pioneers of Kentucky; he erected the 
first mill in Monroe County, on a stream that afterward took the name of 
Mill Creek.  Judge Harlan was born in Allen County, Ky., June 29, 1842; 
his father died in 1846, leaving him, at the age of four years, to the 
care and training of a widowed mother, with whom he remained until he 
was fifteen years old; he is the seventh in a family of nine children, 
and his assistance was required in the support of the family.  In 1856 
he began to learn the trade of carpenter and builder, at which business 
he continued until 1861, when he joined the Federal Army, and served 
until the end of the war; first in the Ninth Kentucky Infantry, and 
afterward in the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, in which he held the rank of 
sergeant.  He was engaged in the battles of Jamestown, Ky., Gallatin, 
and Chickamauga, Tenn., and Resaca, Kennesaw and Atlanta, Ga., and thence 
to Savannah; from there he returned home, after receiving an honorable 
discharge from the army.  In 1863 he was captured and paroled by the 
enemy, and while at home, awaiting exchange, he married Sallie, a 
daughter of Samuel and Lucy Bridges, of Allen County, Ky.  To them have 
been born nine children, eight of whom are living: Willie, Laura, Mary, 
Dora, Sam, Maggie, Fletcher and Bob.  Judge Harlan engaged in farming 
for awhile after the war; in 1866 he was ordained a minister of the 
Missionary Baptist faith, and for fifteen years he devoted all his time 
and talent to the work which he pursued with a zeal commensurate with 
the importance of his calling.  In 1881 he was selected by the 
Republican party in his county as a desirable candidate for the office 
of county judge; he was nominted and elected by a majority of 125 
ballots; he then assumed the duties of the office in which he has served 
until the present time (1885).  He is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, and a Master Mason in Graham Lodge. No. 208.

Harlan Bryan Bridges Graham
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Monroe-KY VA TN GA

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