Evening journal., 1902-06-14
AUTHOR DOCTOR
DIES ON FARM
DR.. Caleb Harlan Passes
Away After Long Illness
For More Than Fifty Years He
Praclieed Medicine aud DID
Not Lose a Day

Dr. Caleb Harlan, for more than fifty
years a practicing physician and author,
died at his home on the New Castle road
near Rose HIN. yesterday afternoon. lie
was IS years old For the past twelve
years he lived a retired life at his country
home.
His funeral VIII take place on Monday
afternoon. Services viii be held in Han
over Presbyterian Church and interment
will be made I'm the Wilmington and
Brandywine Cemetery
Caleb Harlan, NJ. d.. was born I'm Mill
town. Mil Creek hundred, .,ew Castle
county October 13, 1914. His father, John
Harlan. was born in the same place, Au-
gust 81. 1873. He belonged to the Society
OF Friends. The doctor studied medicine
three years and was graduated at the old
University Of Pennsylvania in March,
1886
From his mother. Elizabeth (Quimby)
Harlan, he inherited a very frail consti-
tuition which compelled him, while stu
dent, to live on a very low diet and TO
travel on foot a thousand miles. At the
age of twenty-one he began the practice
OF medicine near Brandywine Springs, and
established his health by riding eleven
years through the country IN the DIS
charge of his professional duties.
BY careful attention TO fresh air and
proper diet he had been able TO practice
over fifty years without the loss OF day
from sickness. While residing in the coun-
try he became a convert 10 homeopathy
In 1S47 he moved to Wilmington TO prac-
tice the new system. Here he met with
such opposition that he was induced TO
publish "A Lecture on Allopathy and
Homeopathy"
In 1868 the doctor purchased Plumgrove
farm, few mics from the city and re-
quired his farmer TO plow in green crops
for manure. These experiments for years
were so satisfactory that the doctor wrote
a work upon the subject which sold freely
all over the country. A second edition re-
vised and enlarged has been published IN
a handsome volume with a portrait Of the
author bv ]. B. Lippincott & Company
Being a full treatise on farming with
green manures this volume, Il is said, has
no equal in Europe or America. II is in
demand as a text book and as text book
Of reference upon the subject OF which II
treats.
DR.. Harlan was very fond of polite lit
erature and while living in the country
he wrote "Elhora OF the Susquehanna,
and ''The Fate of Marcel" In Whining
ton he wrote Ida Randolph"
A high mark of appreciation and conf
dence was shown DR.. Harlan by his cou-
sin John Ferris, late Of Wilmington, who
died in 1852. worth a quarter of million
Of dollars. He selected DR.. Harlan as his
sole executor and trustee, and stated In
his will that the doctor should not be re-
quired to give security for the faithful
performance of his duties. After the es-
tate was settled there was residue OF
over eighty thousand dollars Ito be ap-
Piled" SAYS the viii. 'by Dr. Harlan for
the benefit Of the necessitous portion Of
the human family that may come 10 his
knowledge" The testator suggested that
"if used for a House Of Refuge Il would
have his approval" Hence the Ferris
Reform School" was established and all
the residue assigned TO the institution.
In 1886 Dr. Harlan published in pamph-
let form. entitled Mental Power. Sound
and Long Life-How Obtained by Diet"
At the age Of twenty-seven the doctor
married Eliza Montgomery. He had three
shildren-E Elgarda Elizabeth and John.
The first was married 10 Or. T. G. Hutch
inson Of Philadelphia. John studied
medicine and received his degree as a
physician at the Hahnemann Medical Col
lege. Fifteen months after graduation he
died with consumption.