This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harlan, Brown, Van Nuys, Poarch, Thompson, Hoelscher, Bowermaster, Salmon, Lingemann, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lh.2ADE/2093 Message Board Post: Surnames in this biography are: Harlan, Brown, Van Nuys, Poarch, Thompson, Hoelscher, Bowermaster, Salmon, Lingemann, DENVER C. HARLAN of Richmond is senior member of the law firm Harlan & Brown, with offices in the First National Bank Building at Richmond. He represents a very old family of Eastern Indiana and was born at Bethel in this state March 6, 1886. His parents, Milton M. and Sarah J. (Van Nuys) Harlan, were both born in Wayne County, Indiana. His paternal grandparents were Joseph G. and Mary (Poarch) Harlan, the former a native of Wayne County, Indiana, and the latter of New Jersey. Joseph G. Harlan was a son of Elihu Harlan, a native of Kentucky, who arrived in Indiana prior to 1818. The maternal grandparents were William and Celina (Thompson) Van Nuys, who came to Wayne County about 1815. Joseph G. Harlan entered a tract of Government land, Milton M. Harlan died in 1930, and his wife died in 1919. Denver C. Harlan attended district schools while a boy on the farm, graduated Bachelor of Science from Valparaiso University in 1906 and too! k his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Indiana, at Bloomington, in 1909. He attended the Indiana Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1911, and has since practiced at Richmond. For two years he was associated in practice with G. H. Hoelscher, and since February, 1923, his partner has been Clarence M. Brown. Mr. Harlan served five years as county attorney of Wayne County and for two terms was a member of the Indiana State Senate. In 1929 he was president pro tern of the Senate and he gave a great deal of study and effort to his legislative duties. Mr. Harlan married April 30, 1914, Laverne M. Bowermaster, who was born at Milton in Wayne County, daughter of Amos Caldwell. They have one son, John Marshall. Mr. Harlan in 1910 married Pauline M. Salmon, who was born at Brownsburg, Indiana, daughter of Jerry N. and Minnie (Lingemann) Salmon. She died in March, 1911. Mr. Harlan is a Republican, a member of the Christian Church, of which one of his grandfathers was a ! minister, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and B. P. 0. Elks. His hobby is raising flowers and playing golf, and he is a charter member of the Royal Golf Club of America, the Richmond Country Club, and a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Richmond, having served as president of the Kiwanis Club in 1930.