Aaron Harlan

Aaron Harlan Representative from Ohio's 7th congressional district

In the "Story of Whitehall Farm," S.V. Cox describes Aaron Harlan, the builder of Whitehall and an Ohio senator from 1852-1861, as an ardent abolitionist who nevertheless as an Antioch trustee was against admitting blacks to the college.
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According to "Yellow Springs, 1846-1864," a history thesis by Joel Samoff, Aaron Harlan, the first president of the Antioch College Board of Trustees and the owner of Whitehall farm, told Mills, "For goodness sake, Mills, don't gravel all those streets, they'll be hard to plow through."
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Harlan, who was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, thought that the town would never grow to the size Mills expected, and that many of the roads would eventually be covered by cornfields.