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Biography
Charles B. Harlow
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 669-670


Charles B. Harlow, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of the town of
Harrison, Me., residing at Bolster's Mills, and a veteran of the Civil War, was
born in Canton Oxford County, Me., February 7, 1824, son of Colonel William and
Lydia (Billings) Harlow. Mr. Harlow's father was born in Buckfield, Me., March
10, 1793, and in young manhood learned the carpenter's trade. He afterward
engaged in mercantile pursuits, ran a ferry and kept a public house; but in his
latter years he settled upon a farm in Waterford, Me., where he passed the rest
of his life. He was an able business man and a stanch patriot, having served as
a soldier in the War of 1812; and he held a Colonel's commission in the State
militia for many years. In his political views he was a Democrat. Colonel Harlow
died January 7, 1873. His wife, Lydia Billings, who was a native of Dublin,
N.H., died in Waterford, December 23, 1868. They had but one child, Charles B.,
the subject of this sketch. Both parents were members of the Universalist
church.

Charles B. Harlow was educated in the public schools, and resided at home until
reaching the age of eighteen. He then began life for himself by working in a
brickyard in Danvers, Mass., where he remained a short time, and later went to
Boston, where he engaged in teaming for three years. For the succeeding eight
years he was employed as foreman for Samuel H. Pratt, a truckman; and on leaving
that position he joined the Boston police force, with which he served for five
or six years. On September 15, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company K,
Twenty-third Regiment, Maine Volunteers, for nine months' service in the Civil.
War; and while on picket duty at Edward's Ferry he contracted chills and fever
and rheumatism, from which he has never fully recovered. In 1877 he moved to
Otisfield, where he settled upon the old Harlow place, which was the home of his
present wife's family, and after a residence there of eleven years he in 1888
moved to his present home at Bolster's Mills. Since 1885 he has suffered much
from rheumatism, and he and his wife pass their winters in Massachusetts. Mr.
Harlow is a Republican in politics, and is a comrade of General Logan Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, of Harrison village.

Mr. Harlow has been twice married. His first wife, to whom he was married on
April 17, 1848, was Adeline Welch, who was born in Maine, March 12, 1828, and
died September 15, 1876, leaving no children. On February 14, 1877, he was
united in marriage with Mrs. Charlotte J. Emery, born in Harlow, widow of Thomas
E. Emery, of Buckfield Centre, Me., who died December 17, 1866. Mrs. Harlow is a
daughter of Joseph and Mary (Peabody) Harlow, the former of whom was a native of
Gorham, Me., and a prosperous farmer and carpenter through life. He died
September 11, 1862, his wife, who was born in Topsfield, Mass., surviving till
1886. They were the parents of eleven children, eight of whom grew to maturity,
and three are now living, namely: Charlotte J., who is now Mrs. Harlow; William
F., who married Emelia Bailey for his first wife, and Mary Temple for his
second, and now resides in Lewiston, Me.; and Henry S., who married Rose Lowell,
and is now engaged in farming in Kansas.

By her first marriage Mrs. Harlow had five children, as follows: Jennie M, who
married Albert W. Bolster, and died leaving three children, two of whom are
living - namely, Walter E. and Lottie M.; Addie M., who married for her first
husband Volney Barker, a former inventor of Otisfield, and for her second Dr. J.
L. Wisley, of Nashua, and has one son by her first union, named Percy L.; Walter
A., who married Hattie Foster, and is now in the leather business in Brockton,
Mass., having two children - Addie M. and Maude L.; Clarence V., who died at the
age of twenty-one; and William H., who married Nellie S. Coley, is engaged in
business in Boston, and has three sons - Theodore G., Carlisle, and Stanley L.