Jerome B. Harlow

HARLOW, MORRILL, CRAWFORD

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/10/2007 at 02:03:13

Source: Monona County History
1890 Chicago National Pub

Jerome B. Harlow, an enterprising farmer residing on section 31, in the town of Spring Valley, was born in the township of Egypt, Monroe County, N.Y., near the city of Rochester, August 4, 1833. His parents, Benjamin D. and Hannah (Morrill) Harlow, were natives of Orleans County, Vt., born, the former in 1798, and the latter in 1803. After his parents’ marriage in 1828, they removed to New York about 1831, where they resided until 1838, at which date they settled in Branch County, Mich. They remained in that State until 1850, when they removed to Lake County, Ill. In 1852, the father went to California, whence he returned in 1857, and in 1860 they came to Iowa and located in Fayette County, where the father died in January, 1867. The mother of our subject died in Spring Valley Township, August 27, 1880. His father was a carpenter, wagon and carriage builder, and quite a musician, being a member of one of the Rochester bands in early life.
Jerome B. Harlow removed with his parents to Michigan and to Lake County, Ill., and grew to manhood on a farm, receiving a common-school education in his youth. October 2, 1858, he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet S. Crawford, a native of St Lawrence County, N.Y., born June 17, 1835, and daughter of William and Harriet (Hilliard) Crawford. Her parents were born in Orleans County, Vt., her father March 31, 1789, and her mother May 28, 1793, and both died in St Lawrence County, the father August 6, 1844 and the mother, after a third marriage, in March, 1875.
In 1860, after their marriage, our subject and his wife removed to Whiteside County, Ill. where he engaged in farming for about three years. In 1863, he went to the mountains and in the mines of Colorado, was engaged two years. He returned to his home, but in November, 1868, again went west and was in the timber business and railroad contracting in Wyoming Territory. In April, 1869, he was joined there by his wife, and in October of the following year came to Monona County and bought the farm on which he now resides. His seventy-five acres are well cultivated and fairly improved, and manifest the care he bestows upon it. In politics he is a Democrat, and has held several of the local township offices.
Mr. and Mrs. Harlow have had two children: Almon Alphonso, born at Avon, Lake County, Ill., May 12, 1860: and Eugene Dorr, born in Taylor Township, Appanoose County, Iowa, May 18, 1866. While upon a rented farm in Whiteside County, Mr. Harlow came to Iowa and for a part of a year resided in Fremont County, and a part of a year at Stawberry Point, Clayton County, and then returned to Illinois.