 In 1934, Harland was born in Chester, Pennsylvania.His parents, of Lithuanian descent, were Frank Yurgatis (1914–1960), a longshoreman, and Gabler Yurgatis (born c. 1916).Harland and his wife, the former Jane Earle (born 1938), have two children born in Chester, a daughter in 1957, and a son, Robert "Bob" Yurgatis.