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Joel Harlan

Birth	:	27 Sep 1828 Wayne County, Indiana, USA
Death	:	28 Mar 1875 San Ramon, Contra Costa County, California, USA
Burial	:	Dublin Cemetery, Dublin, Alameda County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.6996040, -121.9384384
Inscription	:	Aged 46 y's & 6 m's, a pioneer of forty six
Description	:	NOTE: Mr. Harlan was originally interred in Oak Knoll Cemetery in Livermore. When Oak Knoll was abandoned and turned into a park, some remains and headstones were removed to other locations, such as Dublin, by families. Contra Costa Gazette [Martinez, California] April 3, 1875 [Saturday] "A PIONEER CITIZEN GONE. Mr. Joel Harlan, who died at his residence, in Amador Valley, last Sunday [March 28, 1875], was one of the early, as he has been also one of the prominent residents of this county, and one of the early actual pioneers of the State, having arrived here... Read More	NOTE: Mr. Harlan was originally interred in Oak Knoll Cemetery in Livermore. When Oak Knoll was abandoned and turned into a park, some remains and headstones were removed to other locations, such as Dublin, by families. Contra Costa Gazette [Martinez, California] April 3, 1875 [Saturday] "A PIONEER CITIZEN GONE. Mr. Joel Harlan, who died at his residence, in Amador Valley, last Sunday [March 28, 1875], was one of the early, as he has been also one of the prominent residents of this county, and one of the early actual pioneers of the State, having arrived here in 1846, prior to the discovery of gold, and was living at or in the vicinity of Sutter's Mill when the famous discovery was made. We are not certain, indeed, but he was one of the persons comprising the party employed or engaged there, with Marshall, in the mill enterprise. [Joel Harlan was probably not at Sutter's Mill when gold was discovered his his brother-in-law Peter Wimmer and his family were there.] Mr Harlan, with his father [George Harlan], two sisters and younger brother, Elisha, were living near the San Jose Mission when the first Legislature provided for the county organizations, and his residence fell within the territorial limits of Contra Costa county as then established. A year or two subsequently, he purchased a tract of land and erected his house in the Amador Valley, and when the County of Alameda was created, mainly from the original territory of Contra Costa, one of the points defining the boundary line between the two counties was the "house of Joel Harlan." The house, however, was always considered on this side of the line, and in Contra Costa county, but was removed or demolished in 1857, when Mr. Harlan removed to his more recent purchase on the Norris tract, where he has since resided up to the time of his death. Mr. Harlan was an energetic, upright and genial man, greatly respected and liked. And his neighborhood, extending far in both counties, will deeply sympathize with the sorrow which his death, in the prime of years, brings to the wife and large family of children he leaves behind him. A post mortem examination, made by Dr. La Baree of Livermore, assisted by Doctors Cutler, Smith and Pratt, disclosed a large medullary cancer, involving the lower part of the stomach and upper part of the duedenum, as the cause of Mr. Harlan's long, painful illness and death. The remains of the deceased were interred at the Livermore Cemetery [Oak Knoll], on Tuesday last, under the auspices of the Danville Grange, of which he was a member, and were attended to their resting place by almost the entire people of the San Ramon and Amador Valley districts." END AND The subject of this memoir was the son of George and Elizabeth (Duncan) Harlan, and was born in Wayne county, Indiana, September 27, 1828, where he resided until seventeen years of age. He then [in 1845], with his parents, moved west, locating in St. Joseph, Missouri; and in the following Spring, 1846, they continued their westward journey across the then little known plains to California, the route taken being that known to the pioneers of that, and, the present time, as the Hastings cut-off [in Utah]. It will thus be seen that Mr. Harlan was one of the actual pioneers of this State, having arrived here one year prior to the discovery of gold, and was living in San Francisco when the famous discovery was made. An uncle of our subject, Mr. Weimar [Peter L. Wimmer], was engaged in the mill enterprise with John W. Marshall when the latter made the discovery of the precious metal. After a short time spent in San Francisco, Mr. Harlan, with his father and mother, two sisters and a younger brother, named Elisha, moved to San Jose Mission, locating and building there a house which afterwards proved to be a landmark defining the line between Alameda and Contra Costa counties. During his first year's residence there our subject was called upon to mourn the death of his mother. When the first Legislature met and provided for a county organization, his dwelling fell within the territorial limits of Contra Costa county, as then established. Like nearly every one else in the "days of gold," Mr. Harlan took a turn at the mines; on the return from which, death claimed his aged grandmother, who now lies buried beneath the present State Capitol at Sacramento. On April 7, 1849, he was united in marriage, in the town of Sonoma, by Ex-Governor Boggs, to Miss Minerva Fowler, a native of Bellevue, Illinois, and the daughter of William and Catherine (Speed) Fowler. He next located in Napa city, for a short time, then moved to Sacramento, where he sojourned a few months, and thence moved to San Francisco, where their eldest child, Elisha [Elisha C. Harlan], was born. In the same year he transferred his abode to San Jose, and at the end of a twelve-month, became the first settler in what is now the flourishing town of San Lorenzo. In the year 1852, he purchased a tract of land and erected a dwelling in Amador valley, and when the county of Alameda was created, mainly from the original territory of Contra Costa county, one of the points defining the boundary line between the counties was the "house of Joel Harlan." Mr. Harlan, however, always considered his home on this side of the line and in Contra Costa county. In 1856 he purchased upwards of two thousand acres of the Norris Tract, and two years later built the present dwelling in which his widow and children now reside. Mr. Harlan was an upright and genial man, greatly respected and much beloved, not only by his own family and relatives, but by the citizens of the county in which he lived. On Sunday, March 28, 1875, after a prosperous and well-spent life, Mr. Harlan passed away to his Maker. In regard to his demise, the Danville Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he was an honored member, at their meeting held April 10, 1875, adopted the following memorial resolutions: "Whereas, It has pleased the Divine Master to remove from our midst, our Beloved Brother, Joel Harlan: Resolved, That, in the death of Brother Harlan, we have lost an esteemed member of our Order; the community a worthy and upright citizen, and his family a devoted husband and father. Resolved, that we extend to his bereaved family our sincere and heartfelt sympathy in this, their sad hour of affliction. Resolved, as a mark of respect, that we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family, the Contra Costa Gazette, and the Pacific Rural Press." His family consisted of the following members: Elisha, Anna (now deceased), Laura M., Mary, Horace, Helena, Henry, Fred and Addie. Source: "History Of Contra Costa County, California, Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography, Climatography And Description; Together With A Record Of The Mexican Grants ... Also, Incidents Of Pioneer Life; And Biographical Sketches Of Early And Prominent Settlers And Representative Men" By JP Munro-Fraser, 1882; San Francisco, W.A. Slocum & Co. From: Stacinator (49423547)

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Joel Harlan's memorial is located at: Dublin Cemetery, Dublin, Alameda County, USA.
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Joel Harlan death on 28 Mar 1875 in San Ramon, Contra Costa County, California, USA
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Latitude: 37.6996040
Longitude: -121.9384384

Family Members:

Parent

George Harlan

(1802 - 1850)

Elizabeth Duncan Harlan

(1802 - 1846)

Spouse

Minerva Jane Fowler Harlan

(1833 - 1915)

Siblings

George Harlan Jr.

(1850 - 1874)

Children

Elisha C. Harlan

(1850 - 1938)

Laura Minerva Harlan

(1855 - 1897)

Mary Harlan Llewellyn

(1857 - 1936)

Horace E. Harlan

(1859 - 1887)

Helene H. Harlan Osborn

(1862 - 1934)

Henry Leo Harlan

(1863 - 1891)

Frederick Fowler Harlan

(1866 - 1942)

Adeline Elmina “Addie” Harlan Stolp

(1871 - 1933)

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Coordinate: 37.6996040, -121.9384384

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Coordinate: 37.7178001, -122.1228027

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Coordinate: 37.6797850, -121.7526100

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Coordinate: 37.6901500, -122.1288500

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Coordinate: 37.5514440, -122.0171910

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