HARVEY, C. P.

HARVEY, MCGILL, POLHAMUS

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 22:34:12

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

C. P. HARVEY, one of the successful and popular citizens of Crawford county,
was born in Amboy, Lee county, Illinois, May 4, 1852, a son of Michael Harvey, a native
of Ireland. He came to the United States when a boy, grew to manhood in New York
City, and was there married to Ellen McGill. The parents came West in 1850, locating at
Amboy, Illinois, where the father died at the age of forty-eight years. The mother now
resided in that city, aged seventy-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey were the parents of
nine children, eight sons and one daughter.
D. P., our subject, was reared to farm life in Lee county, Illinois, and in 1871 he
removed to Chicago, where he was first employed in driving teams and then as clerk in a
mercantile house. He was there during the great fire of 1871. In 1875 he located near
Clinton , Clinton county, Iowa, made his home at Westside from 1875 until the spring of
1892, and in that year bought his present farm of 120 acres, located five and one-half
miles east of Denison. He has a beautiful dwelling, 18x24 feet, one and a half stories
high, situated on a natural building site, and surrounded by a grove and orchard.

Mr. Harvey was married in Clinton county, at the age of twenty-four years, to
Hannah Polhamus, a native of that county, and a daughter of Thomas Polhamus, also of
Clinton county. To this union has been born two children: Thomas Berry and James, aged
respectively fifteen and eleven years. Mr. Harvey is a leader in the Democratic party, has
served as County Supervisor three years, having made a good record as a county official.
Socially, he is a member of the I. O. O. F., of Vail, and of the Knights of Pythias,
Ainsworth Lodge, No. 148, of Westside.