HARVEY, Refine

HARVEY, CLARK, DELVER, BLAIR, GUTHRIE, JACKSON, LEEPER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/28/2014 at 10:51:06

Biography ~ Refine Harvey

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 487:

REFINE HARVEY, one of the lumber firm, Clark & Harvey, Davis City, is one of the Pioneers of Decatur County, and has witnessed its change from a wild, uncultivated tract to its present advanced state of flourishing towns and thrifty farms. He was born in Rutland County, Vermont, March 10, 1829, a son of JOSEPH HARVEY, who died when our subject was but eight months old. When he was six years old he went to live with JOSEPH DELVER, of Franklin Township, remaining with him nine years, when, wishing to see his mother who he had not seen in that time, he asked permission to visit her, but being refused decided to go without leave, and thus severed his connection with Mr. DELVER. When nineteen years of age he accompanied his mother it Richland County Ohio, and three years later went to Erie County, and in April, 1854, came to Iowa, and settled on section 33, Burrell Township, Decatur County, where he lived until the fall of 1880, when he moved to Davis City. Mr. HARVEY was married in Lexington, Ohio, to Miss ELEANOR BLAIR, and to them have been born three children – ANNIE, wife of D. B. GUTHRIE, ELLA, wife of T. C. JACKSON, and ELVIRA, wife of JAMES LEEPER. In politics Mr. HARVEY is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the church of United Brethren in Christ. His mother was married three times, her three children – two daughters and one son – being born to the first marriage. She came to Iowa to make her home with a daughter, at Oskaloosa, and subsequently lived for a time with her son in Decatur County. She died at Oskaloosa, November 5, 1885, aged ninety-one years.

Transcription by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historical Society Museum, January of 2014