J. F. Harlan

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James Fulton Harlan
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J. F. Harlan, ca. 1906

Electoral District Third Ward
Term Start July 1, 1901
Term End August 31, 1903
Succeeded by Edward Lawman

Biographical Information

Date of birth February 2, 1842
Date of death May 19, 1924 (aged 82)
Place of birth Afton Depot, Nelson Count
Place of death City of Charlottesville
Spouse Emma Cornelia Allen Harlan (1855-1914)
Children John Frederick Harlan (1889–1951)
Emma Cornelia Harlan (1887–1966)
Residence Charlottesville, VA
Profession Business (merchant)
Religion Methodist

James Fulton Harlan (known as J. F. Harlan, February 2, 1842 – May 19, 1924), was elected to the city council in 1901. He moved to Charlottesville in the year 1881, and for thirty-three years thereafter he engaged in the mercantile business on West Main Street. He later purchased the site, No. 214 West Main Street, where he was located and erected a building.


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1901 election

Biography

James Fulton Harlan was the son Elizabeth Dettor Hays and Benjamin Franklin Washington “BFW” Harlan. Born on his father’s farm at Afton Depot, Nelson County, he was one of four brothers who entered the Confederate army. He entered the Civil War during the second year – enlisting as a private in Company “B,” Fifty-second Virginia Infantry and saw active service until April 1862, when he was disabled by reason of a fractured limb, while in camp one day his ankle was fractured by a horse, and assigned light duty until the fall of 1864. He rejoined to the regular army and in December of that year he was ordered to Petersburg, where he remained in the trenches until the evacuation. Two days before the surrender at Appomattox, he was captured at Amelia Courthouse and taken to Point Lookout where he was detained as a prisoner until June 6th, 1865. After his release he returned home, and in 1868 entered the mercantile business.

Mr. Harlan began his business career by opening a small mercantile establishment at Warren, from whence he moved to Augusta County and from there to Earlysville, Albemarle County, at which place he conducted a retail store for four years until he moved to Charlottesville in the year 1881, and for thirty-three years thereafter he engaged in the mercantile business on West Main Street. He later purchased the site, No. 214 West Main Street, where he was located and erected a building he later occupied, retiring therefrom in the year 1914 on account of his advance age.

During the years of his business activity, Mr. Harlan was connected with a number of public enterprises. He was one of the original organizers and the president of the Albemarle Telephone Company and of the board of directors until his heath. He served in the city council at intervals and was a member of the city school board for about thirty years. He was a member of the John Bowie Strange Camp Confederate Veterans and, Widows’ Sons’ Lodge No. 60 A. F. and A. M.; prominent in the Masonic circles, he was a member of the Methodist Church and of the board of stewards of which he was chairman for many years. In politics Mr. Harlan was a life-long Democrat, he believed in the Late Southern Cause, in Southern people.

Family

Oakwood Cemetery, Harlan family section, ca. 2023

James Harlan married Emma Cornelia Allen (1855-1914). Burial in the Harlan family section of Oakwood Cemetery.

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