Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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SAMUEL R. HARVEY

Samuel R. HARVEY, a blacksmith, who wields the sledge, and fans the forge at the village of Modale came to Harrison county in the spring of 1880, first operating a shop at California Junction, in partnership with Rance DEWELL. In the autumn of that year he bought Mr. Dewell out and continued the business alone, until the spring of 1881, when he sold and went to Council Bluffs, where he worked at boiler repairing and also constructed some new boilers, being in company with A. S. McCREARY. In August of the same year he came to Modale and formed a partnership with Rance DEWELL, which continued until the fall of 1882, when he built the shop he now occupies; the same being 16x42 feet. He is a skillful mechanic and can construct almost any article made from iron.

He was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, August 7, 1848. He remained at home until twelve years of age, and for the next two years worked on a farm, at the end of which time he commenced to learn the blacksmith trade at Wellsville, Ohio, serving an apprenticeship of three years. After having mastered his trade, he continued in the shop for six months, and then went to dressing tools for the C.P. & W. R. R. Company, with whom he remained for six months, and then became a fireman on the same road. After serving in that capacity for six months, he became engineer of that road and followed it for one year and a half and then went to blacksmithing again. He was at Liverpool, Ohio, and on the Ohio River, for eighteen months, where he learned steamboat engineering. We next find him in Wellsville, Ohio, where he was made foreman in the shop in which he learned his trade. He remained there until the autumn of 1876, and then went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania and followed his trade for three years and then came to Harrison County, Iowa.

He was united in marriage in Beaver County, Pa., on July 5, 1875, to Miss Lizzie MARKER and they were the parents of seven children; Samuel S., Lelia F., and Bertha. The deceased are William, Charles, Emma and a boy who died in infancy.

Lizzie (MARKER) HARVEY was born in Liverpool, Ohio, and when a girl her parents moved to Hancock County, Va., where she remained until the date of her marriage. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Politically, our subject affiliates with the Republican party. During the Civil War he belonged to the Ohio State Militia, and helped capture John MORGAN, who made his noted raid through Ohio. Our subject belonged to Company I, and was only thirteen years old at the time he enlisted.

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