HARVEY, J. T.

HARVEY, SMITH

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 21:56:14

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P.
Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

J. T. HARVEY, apothecary and chemist. Second street; is a native of Dover, County Kent, England, and was born Aug. 22, 1816; he there learned the business of apothecary and chemist; he lived in London and various other places until 1851, when he came to America; he lived in New York and Cincinnati, and was engaged in business in Sterling, Whiteside Co., Ill., for eight years; he came to Clinton July 6, 1865, and engaged in the drug business; he holds the office of City Assessor, and is serving his seventh term; he built the first store south of Lee's drug store, on Second street. He married Emily J. Smith, a native of Massachusetts; he has one son by a former wife.