Eli Summerfield Harlan

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c1838

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1895-10-21

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"Eli Summerfield Harlan" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00009273, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, river pilot. Indiana native. Son of Eli Harlan and Ann Harlan. Resident in New Albany, Indiana, in 1850. River pilot in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population, Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany, p. 423A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, p. 485A. Henry Tanner, ed., The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-60 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1859), 103. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 112. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1965, Film 7007129: Jefferson County, Books 9-11, October 21, 1895, p.90 (accessed via ancestry.com).

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