Frank Gross

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• Occupation: Journalist

Francis married Hester Harlan on 19 Sep 1865 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States. Hester (daughter of Aaron Harlan and Amanda Stroufe) was born on 11 Apr 1845 in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, United States; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History / Bio: Biogrphical Directory of the American Congress (Washington D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1950)., p1268
• Military: 1862; Civil War, Lieutenant Colonel, 94th Regiment of Ohio

Notes:

Birth:
Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio, USA

History / Bio:

HARLAN, Aaron (cousin of Andrew Jackson Harlan), a Representative from Ohio; was born in Warren County, Ohio September 8, 1802; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Xenia, Ohio, in 1825; member of the State house of representatives in 1832 and 1833; served in the State senate in 1838, 1839, and 1849; moved to a farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1841 and continued the practice of law; presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844 from Ohio; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1850; member of the board of trustees of Antioch College in 1852; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, and Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1859); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress and in 1861 to fill a vacancy in the Thirty-seventh Congress; resumed the practice of law and engaged in agricultural pursuits near Yellow Springs; lieutenant colonel of the Ninety-fourth Regiment of Minutemen of Ohio in 1862 during the Civil War; moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1864 and resided there until his death on January 8, 1868; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Aaron married Amanda Stroufe in 1840. Amanda was born on 24 Sep 1820; died on 15 Feb 1868 in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States; was buried in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)
• Residence: 1796; From North Carolina to Columbia, Ohio
• Residence: 1797, Warren County, Ohio, United States

Notes:

George Harlan was a native of Chatham, North Carolina, a Quaker in religious belief, and a farmer by occupation. He removed to Ohio in 1796, locating first at Columbia, and in 1797 proceeded to Warren County, north of Lebanon, where he resided until his death, December 21, 1846. He was the first Sheriff of Warren County, and also served as County, Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, and Associate Judge of Common Pleas Court. He was a member of the General Assembly of Ohio from 1807 to 1809. His wife Hester (Eulass) was a native of Harrisburg, Virginia., in the Shenandoah Valley, and a daughter of Jacob Eulass, an early pioneer of what is now Scott County, Ky., settling there in 1787, of Holland descent. She died December 29, 1858, in her eighty-first year. The preceding facts are taken from an old family Bible, once the property of Judge Robert Harlan's grandfather, and handed down to the present generation. It was probably published about 1700.

So far as is known this was the first Quaker family to locate in Ohio. [Source: W. H. Beers & County, Chicago, 1882, "The History of Clinton County, Ohio", (reprint, Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc., 1971]

August 4, 1783 - Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia, pg. 398, George Harlan, received on certificate from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina, dated March 2, 1782.

Reason R. Harlan in his journal says:
"April 11, 1829: ....came 26 miles to-day through mud to George Harlan's.
"April 12, 1829: This is the Sabbath. and I shall spend it reading at the home of my blessed relative. George Harlan: and such a blessed family I have never seen before in all my life.
"April 14, 1829: ....yesterday George and I went to see Samuel and his family.
"April 15, 1829: George and I went to see Aaron and family, and spent the day very agreeably with them."

COPY OF GEORGE HARLANS LETTER TO HOWARD (HIS SON) Jan 23, 1845
Jane Harlan received permission from Haveford College to post George's letter on the Harlan Family web site. Jane transcribed the original and made small alterations to make it more readable (like adding commas and semi-colons and modifying spellings that would confuse the reader). Link to letter: http://www.harlanfamily.org/documents.htm#George672

George married Esther Eulass on 10 Nov 1796 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States. Esther was born on 15 Oct 1777 in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died on 29 Dec 1858 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Jan 1859 in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Esther Harlan, head of household

Notes:

Esther's birth date is given as 1788 in "History of the Harlan Family", but I find this unlikely as she was married and had a child by 1796. She was supposed to be 81 years of age at death and a more likely birth date would be 1777 which I have used.