Son of Joel & Hannah (Wickersham) Harlan.
Husband of Sarah Hinchman.
Contributor Loraine Lucas (48176490) shared the following:
Father of Josiah Harlan (1799 Newlin Township Chester County PA-1871 San Francisco, CA). An American adventurer born in Newlin Township (mother was sent out of Philadelphia to family in Newton Township to give birth). During 17 years in the Far East (1823--41) he was a Bengal Artillery medical officer, secret agent in Afghanistan, and Punjabi governor; he told his story in A Memoir of India and Afghanistan [sicro] (1842). He was a Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and afterwards a San Francisco physician.
Book "The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan" by Macintyre who found "in a tiny museum in Chester County, Pa., a box containing Harlan's scrawled autobiography and an ancient contract penned in Persian and ''stamped with an intricately beautiful oval seal.''"
Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King is believed to be partly based on Harlan. In turn, the Kipling short story was the basis for the 1975 movie The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/a-yankee-in-the-great-game.html
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?n=harlan&oc=0&p=josiah&type=tree
Husband of Sarah Hinchman.
Contributor Loraine Lucas (48176490) shared the following:
Father of Josiah Harlan (1799 Newlin Township Chester County PA-1871 San Francisco, CA). An American adventurer born in Newlin Township (mother was sent out of Philadelphia to family in Newton Township to give birth). During 17 years in the Far East (1823--41) he was a Bengal Artillery medical officer, secret agent in Afghanistan, and Punjabi governor; he told his story in A Memoir of India and Afghanistan [sicro] (1842). He was a Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and afterwards a San Francisco physician.
Book "The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan" by Macintyre who found "in a tiny museum in Chester County, Pa., a box containing Harlan's scrawled autobiography and an ancient contract penned in Persian and ''stamped with an intricately beautiful oval seal.''"
Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King is believed to be partly based on Harlan. In turn, the Kipling short story was the basis for the 1975 movie The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/a-yankee-in-the-great-game.html
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?n=harlan&oc=0&p=josiah&type=tree
Son of Joel & Hannah (Wickersham) Harlan.
Husband of Sarah Hinchman.
Contributor Loraine Lucas (48176490) shared the following:
Father of Josiah Harlan (1799 Newlin Township Chester County PA-1871 San Francisco, CA). An American adventurer born in Newlin Township (mother was sent out of Philadelphia to family in Newton Township to give birth). During 17 years in the Far East (1823--41) he was a Bengal Artillery medical officer, secret agent in Afghanistan, and Punjabi governor; he told his story in A Memoir of India and Afghanistan [sicro] (1842). He was a Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and afterwards a San Francisco physician.
Book "The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan" by Macintyre who found "in a tiny museum in Chester County, Pa., a box containing Harlan's scrawled autobiography and an ancient contract penned in Persian and ''stamped with an intricately beautiful oval seal.''"
Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King is believed to be partly based on Harlan. In turn, the Kipling short story was the basis for the 1975 movie The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/a-yankee-in-the-great-game.html
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?n=harlan&oc=0&p=josiah&type=tree
Husband of Sarah Hinchman.
Contributor Loraine Lucas (48176490) shared the following:
Father of Josiah Harlan (1799 Newlin Township Chester County PA-1871 San Francisco, CA). An American adventurer born in Newlin Township (mother was sent out of Philadelphia to family in Newton Township to give birth). During 17 years in the Far East (1823--41) he was a Bengal Artillery medical officer, secret agent in Afghanistan, and Punjabi governor; he told his story in A Memoir of India and Afghanistan [sicro] (1842). He was a Union cavalry commander during the Civil War and afterwards a San Francisco physician.
Book "The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan" by Macintyre who found "in a tiny museum in Chester County, Pa., a box containing Harlan's scrawled autobiography and an ancient contract penned in Persian and ''stamped with an intricately beautiful oval seal.''"
Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King is believed to be partly based on Harlan. In turn, the Kipling short story was the basis for the 1975 movie The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/books/a-yankee-in-the-great-game.html
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?n=harlan&oc=0&p=josiah&type=tree
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