The Harveys Of Harveysburg

THE HARVEYS OF HARVEYSBURG, OHIO AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FAMILY AND A TOUR OF THE VILLAGE The Mary L. Cook Public Library The Ohioana Room 381 Old Stage Road Waynesville, Ohio 45068 © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

© The Mary L. Cook Public Library This presentation is based on the research of Karen S. Campbell, Genealogy Librarian of The Mary L. Cook Public Library . It is a companion to the conference publication: Quaker Ministry in the Wilderness: Commitment to Faith, Courage to Educate, Daring to Care The Harvey Family of Harveysburg, Ohio & Clinton County, Ohio The Second Annual Quaker Genealogy Conference

This PowerPoint presentation is only an introduction and should not be used as a substitute for the book. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

© The Mary L. Cook Public Library Caesar Creek and its valley were named for a black slave captured by the Shawnee on a raid along the Ohio River. The Shawnee adopted Caesar and gave him this valley as his hunting ground. Caesar lived in this area during the time Blue Jacket was war chief and was said to have gone on many raids with him. Many of these Indian villages were located along an ancient Indian trail, which follows the ridgeline on the eastern side of the Caesar’s Creek valley. The trail was used by white settlers in the early 1800s, who named it Bullskin Trace. Later the trail became part of the Underground Railroad used by runaway slaves to reach safe houses run by area Quakers. It is not surprising that Harveysburg, located only a mile or so from the old Bullskin Trace, would become a safe haven for African-Americans and Native-Americans and the home of abolitionists and ministers to Native-Americans.

Friend Jane F. Wales Nicholson, in her memoir, tells how the Shawnee of Wapakoneta, Ohio visited Caesar’s Creek during the War of 1812: “ Grandfather purchased sixteen hundred acres of land lying on both sides of what is now a pike between Harveysburg and Waynesville; and which he afterwards divided into farms for his sons. My father located on a smaller but adjacent tract in the bend of Caesar’s Creek, below and west of Harveysburg hill. It was heavily timbered, not a stick amiss except about four acres where there had been an Indian camp not long before. The history of this camp is as follows: During the War of 1812, several Indian tribes were hostile to each other. The Friends had a mission among the Shawnees at Wapakoneta. The destruction of the body of Indians was threatened by another offended tribe, and for their protection, John Shaw, agent of the Friends, brought the Shawnees to Caesar’s Creek alley. When the danger was over they returned. My father took possession of their camping ground soon after they had gone ~~their bark beds remained; I saw some of these. Forked sticks were driven down a foot or two, high poles laid across on these on which were pieces of bark, making a bed the size of a single mattress .” © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Caesar’s Creek is now Caesar’s Creek Lake, a human-made lake. Harveysburg is still up on a high hill overlooking a lake instead of a valley. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Today Caesar Creek State Park is found in Warren, Clinton and Greene Counties of Ohio. The lake is 2,830-acres.

© The Mary L. Cook Public Library THE BEGINNINGS OF HARVEYSBURG, OHIO William Harvey, the founder of Harveysburg, Ohio was born on December 27th, 1797 in Orange County, North Carolina and died on December 15th, 1866 in Harveysburg , Ohio. He was the fifth child of Isaac and Lydia Dicks Harvey. William and Mary Crew Harvey and a number of their children are buried in Springfield Monthly Meeting graveyard (Clinton County, Ohio).

© The Mary L. Cook Public Library The area around the future Harveysburg was settled very early in the 19th century. The pioneer community circled Rhoden Ham’s cabin on his farm atop a tall ridge overlooking the east bank of Caesar’s Creek. The area was made up of rich virgin land, which only needed hard work to turn into productive farms. THE LAND AND THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE EARLY DAYS Cabin at Pioneer Village

© The Mary L. Cook Public Library The village was not platted by William Harvey until 1829 (see first plat map next slide). The story goes that he went to Cincinnati, a journey of five days at that time, two to travel to and two to travel back from and one day to do business, to buy supplies for his dry goods store. The merchant asked him where to send his supplies. He responded that it was just a little spot, a " burg ", in the woods above Caesar's Creek , a tributary of the Little Miami River . The merchant addressed the supplies to “ Harveysburg ”. Sadly the Friends who lived in the area were struggling through an inner church conflict known as the Hicksite Separation . 1829 ~ A YEAR OF CREATION & A YEAR OF SCHISM FOR THE QUAKERS

© The Mary L. Cook Public Library The Beer’s History of Warren County, 1882, pp. 652-654 has this to say about the hamlet of Harveysburg, Ohio and William Harvey : This is the township seat and principal village of the township (Massie) . It is situated on the east bank of Caesar's Creek, at an elevation of over 100 feet above the level of the stream. The land on which it now stands was entered by Colonel Abraham Buford , August 6, 1787. It was afterward owned by Rhoden Ham , who located on it in March 1815. William Harvey , after whom the town was named, became the proprietor in 1827. He platted and laid out the town in 1828, and recorded the plat on the 8th of January 1829. According to this plat, the town lay along the State road and contained forty-seven lots, numbered consecutively from number one to forty-seven. There were twenty-five lots six poles wide by twelve poles long, seventeen lots six poles by six poles, two lots five and four-tenths by six poles, one lot three by ten poles, two large, irregular-shaped lots, and a church lot. The State road formed the principal street, and the road to Middletown the principal cross-street. There were also South Street, one cross street not named, and three cross alleys. The town is in a healthy location, and is surrounded by fertile and productive farmlands. It is noted for the philanthropy, enterprise and morality of it’s inhabitants. For many years pork packing was carried on extensively within its limits, as was also the traffic in wool and grain. . . . William Harvey , one of the founders of the village, was for many years its most prominent businessman, being largely engaged in the pork business. He afterward moved to Parke County, Indiana, where he remained for a few years, when he returned to Harveysburg , and there died in December 1866. His widow, Mary Harvey , lives with her daughter in Harveysburg.

Most of the Harveys had settled in Clinton County along Todds Fork . That area became known as the " Harvey Settlement " and Springfield Monthly Meeting would be established there. Harveysburg itself, located a few miles west just over the west boarder in Warren County, would also host a large community of Quakers. As in Waynesville, Ohio, other denominations and faiths would dwell together side by side in Harveysburg with the tolerant Friends. Harveysburg was a village in Wayne Township of Warren County until 1850 when the new Massie Township was established in the northeast corner of the County. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

THE FAMOUS “S” CURVE THAT LED UP TO HARVEYSBURG FROM THE VALLEY BELOW © The Mary L. Cook Public Library © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

A later view of the “S” curve. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

The old metal bridge across Caesar’s Creek at the foot of Harveysburg Hill. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

There were two more additions to the town within William Harvey ’s lifetime: Cross Street was expanded north in 1837 (Warren County Deed Book, Vol. 22, p.94) and a large addition was platted, lots 49-92 in 1838 (Warren County Deed Book, Vol. 23, p. 97). The expansions indicate the growth of the village over a period of ten years, pork packing being the primary industry. The extension of Cross Street today is referred to as “ Pork Alley ” and indicates that the pork packing plant was in that area. On the 1867 Wall Map of Warren County, Ohio, the Pork House is located at the end of “ Pork Alley ” on the east side. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

OLD IMAGES FROM HARVEYSBURG © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Maple and Main Street ~ Masonic Lodge (Upper Level) Harveysburg Lodge No. 312 F. & A.M. Charter granted A.L. 5858 - A.D 1858 Affiliated with Wa ynesville Lodge No. 163 F. & A.M. in 1986 © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Masonic Lodge (White) at left, looking west Main Street turns north to go down the “ S ” curve. In 1872 the African-American Corner Stone Lodge #7 Masonic Lodge ( Prince Hall ) was established and built on Lot 68 on the other side of the village. Sadly it is no longer extant.. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

A Later photograph of Main Street © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Post Office and Drug Store in Harveysburg © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

THE HARVEYSBURG METHODIST CHURCH (WHITE). This church building is still standing on South Street. It is no longer a church. Unfortunately, the African-American Methodist Episcopal Church of Harveysburg, which was founded in 1846, is no longer extant. It was located on Lot 66. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Grove Meeting was established as an indulged meeting of Miami Monthly Meeting of Waynesville, Ohio on January 29th, 1817. In 1823 Grove Meeting became a “ meeting for worship” and a “ Preparative Meeting” of Miami Monthly Meeting of Waynesville. The original Grove Meetinghouse was located on an eight-acre lot about one and one-half miles south of Harveysburg (Survey 1045), about half way to Henpeck. It was the first church in the area to be built. Richard Moon originally owned the land. The first house was built of logs and was used as both a meeting and schoolhouse. It had a thriving school. GROVE PREPARATIVE MEETING OF FRIENDS © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

The Hicksite Separation of 1828 wrecked its havoc on Miami Monthly Meeting in Waynesville and it subordinate meeting, Grove Preparative Meeting, near Harveysburg in 1828. Like the monthly meeting in Waynesville, the preparative meeting divided into Hicksite and Orthodox groups and both preparative meeting groups moved to the newly platted village of Harveysburg. The Orthodox group became known as Harveysburg Preparative Meeting of Miami Monthly (Orthodox) . It became Miami Monthly Meeting ( Orthodox) in 1942 when the Orthodox Miami Monthly Meeting , which had met in the old Red Brick Meetinghouse in Waynesville, moved from the Red Brick Meetinghouse to the Harveysburg Preparative Meetinghouse. Miami MM (Orthodox) was laid down in 1960. The Orthodox Meetinghouse still stands as a private residence at the fork of the road created by Maple and Clark Streets in Harveysburg. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

© The Mary L. Cook Public Library Friends Orthodox Meetinghouse ~ Maple and Clark Streets Harveysburg Orthodox Meetinghouse (pictured above) was built in 1875 ( Harveysburg Preparative Meeting~Orthodox ). The following was published in Waynesville's Miami-Gazette (in the Harveysburg column) on May 19th, 1875: The Orthodox Friends are collecting material for a new brick Church to be built on the side of the old one. Which they will begin to tear down in the course of eight or ten days. They will probably hold meetings in the school house until the new one is finished.

Friends Orthodox Meetinghouse ~ Maple and Clark Streets © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Another view of the old Orthodox Meetinghouse ~ 1982 © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

THE ORTHODOX QUAKER CEMETERY IN HARVEYSBURG The Orthodox Quaker Graveyard is located across the street from the old Orthodox Meetinghouse behind two homes. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

The Hicksite Meeting, continuing on as an indulged , preparative, and meeting for worship under the jurisdiction of Miami Monthly Meeting ( Hicksite ) in Waynesville. It survived until it was laid down in 1907. The Hicksite meetinghouse still stands as a private residence at the end East Main Street in Harveysburg. Grove Preparative Meeting of Miami Monthly Meeting ( Hicksite ) © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Grove Preparative Meeting (Hicksite) & Cemetery Cemetery © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

SCHOOLS IN HARVEYSBURG, OHIO The first free Negro school in Ohio devoted to the education of the unfortunate people was opened in Harveysburg, over thirty years before the Civil War. The school was opened and conducted by Elizabeth Harvey. She was the first woman to devote her life to the advancement and education of the Negro race. Her name should be entered on the roll of honor of those noble people who gave their lives to a great cause. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library Elizabeth Burgess Harvey (left) , wife of Dr. Jesse Harvey, founded what is believed to be the first black school in Ohio around 1831 according to Beer’s 1882 History of Warren County . She is also mentioned in the book Ohio Builds A Nation by Samuel Hardin Stille (Chicago, Lower Salem, Ohio and New York City: The Arlendale Book House, 1939), p. 118.:

The Black School before its restoration (above). It was restored by the Harveysburg Historical Society . This photograph was taken in 1982. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library Tradition also states that Native Americans were educated at this “ school of color ”.

The Black School today © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

THE HARVEYSBURG ACADEMY & BOARDING SCHOOL Founded by Dr. Jesse Harvey in 1837-38 Dr. Jesse Harvey was born November 26th, 1801 in Orange County, North Carolina. He was six when his parents, Caleb and Sarah Towel Harvey settled near Todd’s Fork in Clinton County, Ohio. He was a cousin of William Harvey, the founder of Harveysburg. Being naturally inquisitive and intelligent he decided to learn medicine but encountered some resistance since it was commonly believed at the time that higher education would lead one to be irreligious. However, at the age of 22 he became a student of Dr. Uriah Farquer of Wilmington, Ohio. He entered the Medical College of Ohio , 1826-7, attained his license to practice and settled in the newly platted village Harveysburg in 1830. He also erected a carding mill at Harveysburg. He was one of the founding members of the Lebanon Medical Society in 1837. He was an extremely well read man and was knowledgeable about Law and many scientific subjects. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Dr. Jesse Harvey’s interest in education lead him to establish the first Harveysburg High School ( Academy ) and Boarding School in 1837-8, approximately 6 years after Elizabeth founded the Black School . He erected the school building and went to considerable expense to furnish it with competent teachers and equipment from the east. He initially paid for the school, which lasted through harsh economic times for eight or nine years. He taught twice a week classes on history, languages and the natural sciences. Other teachers associated with the first Harveysburg Academy were Dr. David Burson , a graduate of Haverford College , Wilson Hobbs, Israel Taylor, Oliver Nixon and William P. Nixon. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Dr. Jesse's efforts put him into considerable debt and so after a couple of years he established a stock company of 16 members including himself, which was incorporated. The school had an excellent reputation drawing students from all over southwest Ohio, but financial difficulties and political strife over abolition would eventually close the Harveysburg Academy and Boarding School shortly after Jesse and his wife Elizabeth, accompanied by their children, had left Harveysburg to be superintendents of the Quaker Shawnee Mission in the Kansas territory. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

The year that the first Harveysburg Academy was founded, Stephen Wall, a wealthy plantation owner from North Carolina, brought some of his mulatto children to the Harveys to educate and care for, six years after Elizabeth’s Black School had opened its door. His oldest child was Orindatus S. B. Wall who was then twelve years old. The arrival of the Wall children may be the stimulus for Dr. Harvey ’s attempt to have a “ separate department for blacks ” in the Academy . This attempt caused great controversy. Some people objected to black enrollment in the Academy and some people, who were strong Garrisonian abolitionists, were angry that blacks were segregated in the school. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library Orindatus S. B. Wall

The 1831 Black School may have become the “ separate department for blacks ” for the Harveysburg Academy when teaching blacks and whites in the same building became untenable and even dangerous. The location of the Harveysburg Academy was within the village “ in front of the ” little one-room Black School, which was originally located just outside the boundary of the village (Out Lot 2). Location in this situation may unfortunately illustrate the racial attitudes of the day. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library After the first Harveysburg Academy closed, the building was re-used and became the African-American Zion Baptist Church (left). Unfortunately, the building is no longer extant.

1831 Black School Dr. Harvey’s Academy Orthodox Meetinghouse Hicksite Meetinghouse © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

After Dr. Jesse and Elizabeth Burgess Harvey had left for Indian Territory and the Shawnee Mission, the next principal of the first Harveysburg Academy , Wilson Hobbs, who was a Quaker, refused to enroll a black woman, Margaret Campbell, into the Academy . The Board of Trustees of the school would not allow it. Hobbs, himself would have done so but it appears he had no choice. The crisis over this enrollment was strong enough to close the school. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

The storm over admitting African-Americans into Dr. Harvey’s Academy was strident enough and long enough to be mention in one of John Harvey’s poems, “ To E. & D. Hobbs of Indiana ”, published in 1848. The School at Harveysburg has been sustain’d, And through the country has some credit gain’d’ ‘ Tis an advantage to our little town, Though some are wishing that it might go down. I feel a secret joy to hear the bell, Which long I hope may of its being tell, And still continue there to hang and ring, When my poor feeble muse shall cease to sing; ‘ Tis not because I love the bell to hear, But that the subject to my heart is dear. The opposition which it long withstood Has mostly terminated for its good, Yet some their children to it will not send, Because its founder is the negro’s friend; A color’d school exists so near the white . . . © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Some of our friends their patronage refused, Because the house by lecturers was used, For liberty which Dr. Harvey gave, To plead the cause of the afflicted slave; But now a meeting house is occupied, And in this case we are no longer tried. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Valentine Nicholson, a local farmer who lived in Caesar’s Creek valley below Harveysburg, and Isaiah Fallis, owner of the Harveysburg Mill on Caesar’s Creek , took up the torch promoting integrated education in Harveysburg. They both were disowned from their Quaker meetings due to their radical opinions. Their solution would free them from any complaints against integration generated by the stockholders of the old Harveysburg Academy . In Nicholson’s obituary it states: The need of a free town hall was at one time apparent to a few philanthropic people at Harveysburg, Ohio. The chief contributors to this movement were Isaiah Fallis and Valentine Nicholson. They built an academy, with a hall above, which they dedicated to free speech. In school and recitation rooms below there was to be no distinction of color. The tuition was to be the compensation for the teacher. Members of the Society of Friends were instructors. The late Dr. Wilson Hobbs was the first, then Dr. O. W. Nixon and his brother William Penn Nixon, also the late Israel Taylor of Indianapolis (These are the same teachers associated with the first Harveysburg Academy .) . The school was a success; the few colored pupils who availed themselves of its privileges became leading citizens in Oberlin and Washington ( Miami-Gazette newspaper of Waynesville, March 30 th , 1904). © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

In effect, a second Harveysburg Academy , this one integrated, was founded in a different location on the northwest edge of Harveysburg. The site included the west part of Lot 39 in the village on west Main Street. On October 22, 1849, Isaiah Fallis sold part of the west part of this lot to A. L. Autram et al., school trustees (Deed Book 29, page 583). Actually, the building’s location was directly north of adjoining L ots 38 and 39 and the school property ran in the shape of a sharp wedge from Main Street back to the school building site, see map on next slide. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Minutes of the founding of the second “ Harveysburg School Company ” are in the Archive of the Probate Court in the Courthouse in Lebanon, Ohio. The company was a stock company, which had collected $1,400.00 in subscriptions to fund the new academy: MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HARVEYSBURG SCHOOL COMPANY: Pursuant to previous notice, the stockholders of the Harveysburg Seminary met at said building on the 14 th day of April 1849 at 2 P.M. for the purpose of organizing and availing themselves to the advantages of a law passed by the Legislature of the State of Ohio, March 10, 1845, authorizing Literary and other Societies to acquire corporate powers without applying to and obtaining letters of incorporation from the Legislature of the State . On motion Wm. Crow (a teacher from Illinois who was living directly east of Harveysburg) was called to the chair and John W. Scroggs (a physician in Harveysburg) appointed Clerk. The meeting then proceeded to and adopted a constitution and bylaws for the government of the company. On motion it was unanimously resolved that this society shall be called the Harveysburg School Company. The meeting then proceeded in conformity to the requisitions of the constitution to elect the permanent officers of the company which resulted in the election of R. B. Edwards for President (a judge) , J. G. Stevenson (a coachmaker) , Clerk, A. L. Antram (a merchant in Harveysburg) , Hiram Yeo (a merchant in Harveysburg) , and J. W. Scroggs , Trustees. On motion adjourned. J. W. Scroggs , Clerk. This integrated academy seems to have survived in Harveysburg up until 1852. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

This building, built in 1891, was built on the location of the second Harveysburg Academy . It is still standing. Like most private academies of this time, the school was rolled over into the public school system. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Inside the 1891 Public School Building © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Sadly, this old school building has been empty for many years.The local high school is now Clinton-Massie in Clarksville, Ohio. Dr. Mary L. Cook was one of the first graduates from this old high school in 1891. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

On May 12 th , 1848, Dr. Jesse Harvey died of dropsy at the Shawnee Mission but Elizabeth and her children stayed on at the Mission to superintend with the assistance of Richard Mendenhall. There is a small graveyard on the site and there is a marker that says, “ Jesse Harvey of Harveysburg ." It is the Indian Cemetery at Nieman Road & 59th Terrace in Shawnee, Johnson County, Kansas. Sadly the cemetery is in very bad shape. Many stones have disappeared or have been damaged. Native Americans and Quaker missionaries are buried together in the cemetery. It is also the resting place of Shawnee chief Captain Joseph Parks. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library Elizabeth Burgess Harvey returned to Ohio and eventually remarried. She married Elijah Mendenhall (b. February 6 th , 1797 in N.C, ~ d. July 20 th , 1875) in Plainfield, Indiana) on April 13 th , 1854 in Parke Co., Indiana. It was a second marriage for both of them. She moved to Plainfield, Indiana with her second husband.

OTHER AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS IN HARVEYSBURG · The Black School itself was built just outside the original boundary of the village on the north side (Out Lot #2) during the early 1830s. · On Lot 66 in the village, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1846. Antioch Chapel of the Anti-Slavery Colored Baptist Church of Harveysburg was founded on January 13, 1862. The trustees of this organization were: Henry Wiggins, Charlott Dudley, Sarah Brantley, Nancy A. Dawson, and Mahala Brantly were elected trustees and John Dodson was elected clerk. The exact location is not clear although it is most likely that this Anti-Slavery Colored Baptist Church developed into the Zion Baptist Church (see below). One of the concerns of Anti-Slavery societies was to promote Anti-Slavery churches to provide moral suasion for the movement. Many mainline churches had been severely divided on the slavery and war issues. · On Lot 64 was located Zion Baptist Church , an African American Church. It was built using the old materials from the Harveysburg Academy founded by Dr. Jesse Harvey in 1861. Zion Baptist Church was rebuilt on the same site of the old academy. The cemetery of the Zion Baptist Church is located outside of the village across Rte. 73 in Fifty Springs Picnic Area of Caesar’s Creek State Park . The Black School was located behind (north of) the Academy / Zion Baptist Church building outside of the village limit. In 1872 the Corner Stone Lodge #7 Masonic Lodge ( Prince Hall ) was established and built on Lot 68. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

1 WILLIAM HARVEY 1678 – 1754 b. in England .. +JUDITH (BOLAN) OSBORNE 1683 – 1750 b. in England ............. 2 ISAAC HARVEY 1718 – 1802 b. in Pennsylvania .................+MARTHA NEWLIN 1721 – 1806 b. in Pennsylvania .............................3 WILLIAM HARVEY (III) 1740 – 1781 b. in Pennsylvania d. in North Carolina .................................+ELIZABETH CARTER 1737 – 1832 b. in Pennsylvania d. in Ohio (Clinton Co.) ............................................ 4 ISAAC HARVEY 1763 - 1834 (Settled in Ohio ~ Superintendent of Wapakoneta Mission) ................................................ + AGATHA TERRELL *2nd Wife of Isaac Harvey ................................................ + LYDIA DIX (DICKS) ............................................................ 5 NANCY HARVEY ................................................................ +ARCHIBALD EDWARDS ............................................................ 5 RUTH HARVEY ................................................................ +HENRY TOWELL ............................................................ 5 ELIZABETH HARVEY ................................................................ +ENOCH HARLAN ............................................................ 5 REBECCA HARVEY ................................................................ +JONATHAN T. HADLEY ............................................................ 5 WILLIAM HARVEY (Founder of Harveysburg) ................................................................ + MARY CREW ............................................................ 5 HARLAN HARVEY ................................................................ + SUSAN KIMBROUGH ............................................................ 5 SIMON D. HARVEY ................................................................ + MARY H. BURGESS ............................................................ 5 LYDIA HARVEY ............................................................ 5 MARTHA HARVEY ................................................................ +AARON ANTRAM © The Mary L. Cook Public Library The fourth generation are the Harveys who settled the “ Harvey Settlement ” in Clinton County, Ohio

............................................ 4 ELI HARVEY 1762 – 1822 ( Settled in Ohio ) ................................................ +MARY STANFIELD ............................................ 4 JOSHUA HARVEY b . 1799 - 1850 ( Settled in Indiana ) ................................................ +MARY MORRISON, daughter of Robert Morrison ............................................ *2nd Wife of Joshua Harvey: ................................................ +MARY MOON ............................................ *3rd Wife of Joshua Harvey: ................................................ +ALICE CHEW ............................................ 4 CALEB HARVEY - b. 1776 - 1830 ( Settled in Ohio ) ................................................ +SARAH TOWELL ............................................................ 5 DR. JESSE HARVEY + ELIZABETH BURGESS HARVEY MENDENALL ............................................................ 5 JOSHUA HARVEY ............................................................ 5 HANNAH HARVEY ............................................................ 5 ELI HARVEY ............................................................ 5 REBECCA HARVEY ............................................................ 5 ELIZABETH HARVEY ............................................................ 5 ISAAC HARVEY ................................................................ + SARAH EDWARDS ..............................................................………............. 6 CALEB HARVEY + REBECCA JEFFERIS HARVEY ...................................................................………........ 6 ELIZABETH HARVEY ......................................................................………..... 6 MARY JANE HARVEY ........................................................................………... 6 REBECCA HARVEY .....................................................................………...... 6 WILLIAM HARVEY .....................................................................………...... 6 NATHANIEL HARVEY .......................................................................……….... 6 ABIGAIL HARVEY .........................................................................……….. .6 JESSE H. HARVEY + LUCY CAROLINE HADLEY .........................................................................………. 6 ENOS F. HARVEY © The Mary L. Cook Public Library The fourth generation are the Harveys who settled the “ Harvey Settlement ” in Clinton County, Ohio

............................................ 4 WILLIAM HARVEY - 1769 - 1858 ( Settled in Ohio ) ................................................ + MARY VESTAL ............................................................ 5 JOHN HARVEY ............................................................ 5 ELI HARVEY ................................................................ + SARAH FALLIS ............................................................................ 6 LYDIA HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 MARY HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 WILLIAM PENN HARVEY …………………………………………………………… 7 ELI HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 ESTHER HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 ANN HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 SARAH HARVEY ............................................................ +2nd Wife of Eli Harvey: ................................................................ + RUTH FISHER ............................................................................ 6 JOSEPH HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 ISAAC HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 HANNAH HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 JOHN HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 JAMES HARVEY ............................................................................ 6 SINAI HARVEY ............................................................ 5 DAVID HARVEY ............................................................ 5 SARAH HARVEY ............................................................ 5 ELIZABETH HARVEY ............................................ 4 MARTHA HARVEY b. 1766 ................................................ +JACOB HALE, SR. ............................................ 4 LYDIA HARVEY b. 1774 ................................................ +JOHN HADLEY © The Mary L. Cook Public Library The fourth generation are the Harveys who settled the “ Harvey Settlement ” in Clinton County, Ohio

.............................3 CALEB HARVEY 1754 - 1823 ( Settled in Indiana ) .................................+ MARY MOONEY ............................................ 4 HENRY HARVEY ( Settled in Ohio, Indiana, Kansas ) ................................................ + NANCY ANN MADDEN ............................................................ 5 GEORGE MADDEN HARVEY ............................................................ 5 CALEB ELWOOD HARVEY ............................................................ 5 MARY HARVEY ............................................................ 5 ELIZABETH HARVEY ............................................................ 5 DEBORAH HARVEY ............................................................ 5 NATHAN HARVEY ............................................................ 5 REBECCA HARVEY ............................................................ 5 SAMUEL B. HARVEY ............................................................ 5 HENRY C. HARVEY ............................................................ 5 ANN B. HARVEY .............................3 HANNAH HARVEY .............................3 EDITH HARVEY .............................3 RACHEL HARVEY .............................3 ISAAC HARVEY .............................3 ELIZABETH HARVEY .............................3 MARTHA HARVEY .............................3 RUTH HARVEY .............................3 NATHAN HEAVER HARVEY © The Mary L. Cook Public Library Henry Harvey is also of the fourth generation of Harveys, cousin to the Harveys in Clinton and Warren Counties, Ohio.

ISAAC HARVEY December 12 th , 1763 ~ May 9 th , 1834 [i] and his first wife LYDIA DICKS (DIX) HARVEY , April 7 th , 1766 ~ January 2 nd , 1813 [ii] The daughter of the famous Quaker Minister, Zechariah Dicks (Dix) and his second wife AGATHA TERRELL HARVEY 28 Sep 1759 ~ June 18 th , 1828 [iii] [i] Isaac Harvey, b. 12-12-1763 North Carolina, d. 5-9-1834, buried old Section 6, Lot 2, Springfield MM graveyard ( Cemetery Records of Clinton County, Ohio, 1798-1999 [Wilmington, Ohio: Clinton County Genealogical Society, April 2000], p. 517). [ii] Lydia Dicks Harvey, b.4-7-1766 North Carolina, d. 1-2-1813, Buried old Section 6, Lot 2, Springfield MM graveyard. Lydia was the first burial in the Springfield graveyard ( Cemetery Records of Clinton County, Ohio, 1798-1999 [Wilmington, Ohio: Clinton County Genealogical Society, April 2000], p. 517). [iii] Agathy Harvey, b. Virginia, d. 6-18-1828, age 69 years, Buried in old Sec 6, Lot 2, Springfield MM graveyard Cemetery Records of Clinton County, Ohio, 1798-1999 [Wilmington, Ohio: Clinton County Genealogical Society, April 2000], p. 516). © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Isaac and Agatha Harvey, his second wife, were the superintendent and matron of the Quaker Shawnee Mission at Wapakoneta off and on during very difficult times from 1819-1826. It was a time of rapid growth within the Society of Friends in Ohio and Indiana leading to the setting off of the new Indiana Yearly Meeting from Ohio Yearly Meeting . It was also a time of turmoil for both Quakers and Native Americans. The last few years before Isaac and family exited their ministry and returned to Clinton County in 1828, the volatile issues of the Hicksite~Orthodox controversies were being debated in the Society and separation into two factions was looming. The Shawnee were also fractionalized since the Treaty of 1817 over whether to remain on the reservations in Ohio or to move to Indian Territory beyond the Mississippi. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library Isaac and his first wife, Lydia Dicks, were early pioneers of the “ Harvey Settlement ” in Clinton county, Ohio.

In late 1819 Isaac Harvey , age 56, and part of his family (his second wife Agatha Terrell Harvey ) were engaged by the Society and moved to Wapakoneta to oversee the grist and saw mills that had been re-built by Friends after the War of 1812 for the Shawnee on the Auglaize River. The Committee on Indian Concerns of Ohio Yearly Meeting was also at this time considering the establishment of a permanent school at Wapakoneta for the Shawnee children, a plan that would be accomplished in 1822. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Isaac’s confrontation was with Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh’s brother, “ The Prophet ”. One day Isaac went to visit an Indian who was ill and found the man lying on his stomach with his back exposed. It was lacerated with deep cuts and bleeding. Horrified, he asked those present what the meaning of this was. “ The Prophet ” who was renowned as a healer had cut up the back in an effort to release the combustible material out of the man’s lungs. The Indian was suffering from consumption, now called tuberculosis. It was believed that a witch had placed the combustible material inside the man. Harvey drove a chagrined “ Prophet ” out of the house and then dressed the wounds. The following evening the Harvey family was awakened to pounding on their door. There stood an Indian woman with her little girl crying, “ They kill-ee me! They kill-ee me! ” She was Polly Butler, the daughter of General Richard Butler and his Shawnee wife. She had been told that the chiefs were in council determining whether she was the witch who had infected the consumptive man. The penalty for being a witch was death. Isaac took the woman and girl to the house of the interpreter, Francis Duchouquet, and found out what was going on. She begged that “ Qua-ke-lee ” protect her and her daughter. He then took her to another, more trusted, interpreter, Thomas Elliott, the blacksmith’s son. He talked with her again and decided to hide her and her daughter in his own home between two beds on a bedstead. Isaac also killed a small dog that had followed them to the house and would give away their presence. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Chief Weasecah convinced Isaac Harvey that they should go to the council, which was still in session and lay this information before the chiefs. The chiefs were not initially open to Isaac’s comments but then I saac made the offer of his life for the life of the woman. He stood before them weaponless and at their mercy. Chief Weasecah was amazed at the conviction and courage of Isaac Harvey and expressed his great regard for him and then offered his own life for the life of Isaac Harvey . All the chiefs, except one, “ The Prophet ”, who stormed out of the proceedings, listened and agreed not to harm the woman or her child. Polly Butler was so fearful that she refused to leave the Harvey house for a few days but eventually returned to her people and was never harmed. “ The Prophet ” © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

D ear Isaac, when I call to mind Thy many virtuous deeds There’s few if any that I find That thine I think exceeds, The sufferings of the Afric race Much sympathy did share, Together with the Indian Tribes, With whom thou hadst much care, But now thy pains and aches are fled Exchanged for joys on high, For such as thee the Savior bled And died on Calvary. Isaac Harvey died on 5 th mo. 9 th 1834. He died age 72 years & 4 months. He was a Quaker Elder. His short obituary was printed in the Western Star newspaper of Lebanon, Ohio. The memorial poem suggests that Isaac Harvey was also involved in the Underground Railroad . © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

SIMON DICKS HARVEY September 18 th , 1804 ~ July 14 th , 1876 MARY H. BURGESS HARVEY February 1 st , 1809 ~ August 9 th , 1862 Simon D. Harvey, one of the sons of Isaac and Lydia Dicks Harvey, was the brother of William Harvey (1797~1866) the founder of Harveysburg, Ohio. William was a prominent businessman in the burgeoning pork packing industry in Harveysburg; a highly profitable business throughout all of southwest Ohio, especially Cincinnati, which became known as “ Porkopolis ”. William opened the first store in Harveysburg. Simon D. and William were partners for a while. Simon D. Harvey was also a schoolteacher and taught in the first schools of Harveysburg © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Simon D. Harvey was a devoted Quaker and an active traveling ministry to Native Americans as described in the 1882 History of Warren Co., Ohio : Simon D. Harvey , a brother and partner of the above ( William Harvey ), sold his interest in the village (Harveysburg) and removed to Clinton County, but after a few years’ residence there, returned to the vicinity of Harveysburg. He was of a religious temperament, and frequently accompanied ministers in their visits to the different sections of the country. In 1841 he traveled with David and Druzella Knowles through Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and the Cherokee Indian Reservation, after which he accompanied them to their home in Canada. In 1856 he and his wife became missionaries to the Shawnee Indians in Kansas, where they remained two years. They some times afterward spent two years more in the same service. William and Simon D. Harvey were sons of Isaac Harvey , who spent the latter part of his life in Harveysburg. A full account of him is given in Henry Harvey ’s “History of the Shawnee Indians”. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

1857 ~ Simon D. Harvey, a son of Isaac and Lydia Dicks Harvey, becomes superintendent of the Quaker Shawnee Mission in Kansas Territory. 1858 ~ Caleb and Rebecca Jefferis Harvey moved from Springfield Monthly Meeting in Clinton County, Ohio to the Friends Shawnee Mission in Kansas. Caleb was the agricultural teacher for the boys. Rebecca taught the girls household duties and how to sew. Caleb is one of the sons of Isaac and Sarah Edwards Harvey who visited President Lincoln. Western Yearly Meeting ( Orthodox ) is formed comprising Quakers in western Indiana and Illinois. During the tenure of Simon D. Harvey as superintendent, British Quakers, Robert and Sarah Lindsey, tour Kansas and the mission for four weeks in March and April. 1859 ~ “Gulie” Elma Harvey, the daughter of Simon D. Harvey is a teacher at the Mission. Her brother, Moses Harvey and his wife, Martha Stanley, and their two little girls, Ollie and Etta, move from Indiana to work at the Friends Shawnee Mission . 1860 ~ Caleb Harvey and family return to Ohio. Before they leave the Kansas territory they buy land near the later site of Harveyville, Kansas (the “ Harvey Settlement ” on the Dragoon). © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

HENRY HARVEY ANOTHER REMARKABLE HARVEY, AN INDIANA COUSIN TO THE HARVEYS OF OHIO © The Mary L. Cook Public Library Henry Harvey was one of the eleven children of Caleb (February 21 st , 1754~before 1824) and Mary Mooney Harvey (abt.1758~abt.1817) who were married at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Orange Co., North Carolina on January 21 st , 1779. Henry’s father, Caleb, was a brother of William Harvey III. It was William Harvey III’s sons that would eventually travel to Clinton County in Ohio and establish the “ Harvey Settlement ” in the area of Adams Township wherein lies Springfield Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends . Consequently, Henry Harvey was a younger first cousin of William III’s sons Isaac, Eli and William. He was the same age as William III’s other sons, Caleb and Joshua. Henry Harvey grew up in Indiana but married in Ohio to Ann Madden Harvey and lived in Sligo, Ohio.

 1830 ~ Robert and Mahala Green become superintendent and matron of the Quaker Shawnee Mission . Mahala Green dies after which Henry Harvey and his wife, Nancy Ann Madden Harvey, become the new superintendent and matron of the mission and school at Wapakoneta.  1830 ~The Indian Removal Bill of 1830 moves the Kickapoo, Shawnee, Delaware, Pottawatomie, Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Iowa, Miami and Sac and Fox tribes.  1831 ~ Henry Harvey advises the Shawnee not to sell their land to the government, but they listen to others who have a vested interest in making a profit off the Shawnees. The Shawnee sign the Treaty of 1831 but soon regret their decision. They turn to Henry Harvey and the Indian Concerns Committee of Indiana Yearly Meeting ( Orthodox ) to help them contest the treaty. In the winter of 1831-32, a delegation of chiefs and Quakers go to Washington, D. C. to petition the government. Chief Blackhoof (left) died just before the Shawnee tribes in and around Wapakoneta were transferred to Indian Territory in the Kansas Territory. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

 1832 ~ The Shawnee at Wapakoneta almost starve to death before their removal to Indian Territory. Supplies from Waynesville and Piqua help them survive. Their 800-mile trek begins to eastern Kansas (now Johnson County).  1833 ~ The Hog Creek tribe of Shawnee moves out west. Once the Shawnee are settled Henry Harvey, Simon Hadley and Solomon Haddon, members of the Indian Committee of Indiana Yearly Meeting ( Orthodox ), make the trip to Kansas and find the Shawnee living in cabins and doing fairly well.  1834 ~ Orthodox Friends receive a large donation of $1,500.00 towards their ministry to the Shawnee from London Yearly Meeting . The Shawnee are happy to welcome the Friends among them in their new home and desire to re-establish the mission and school. Friends begin to work the 320 acres of the farm, which they have leased from the Shawnee, and construct two houses of logs 20’ square, one being one and a half stories high with brick chimneys. The other building of the same dimensions will be a school and meetinghouse that is warmed with a stove. The general expectation is that the school will have twenty-five students on average and that they will learn the use of letters and the domestic arts. They hope that the government will appoint Friends to be sub-agent, blacksmith, and various other positions so that at the mission there will be enough Quakers to hold meeting for worship. Meeting for worship was held twice a week. A few of the Shawnee attend. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

 1835-1836 ~ The Indian Committee of Baltimore , Ohio & Indiana Yearly Meetings meet at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio and make plans to re-build the mission. Henry Harvey implements the plans out west. The Quaker Shawnee Mission and farm are opened in Indian Territory (now Johnson Co., Kansas) with the approbation of the Federal government. Moses Pearson, his wife and family travel from Ohio. The Pearsons become superintendent and matron. The mission is about ten miles southwest of present Kansas City (Westport).  1837 ~ The school is opened and a Meeting for Worship for Friends. Moses Pearson and wife are superintendent and matron. Mary H. Stenton is the assistant matron and Elias Newby is a teacher. One of the conditions attached to the donation from British Friends is to provide religious education, specifically with an emphasis on Scripture study, an issue important to Orthodox Quakers.  1840 ~ Henry Harvey, Nancy Ann Madden, his wife, his sons and two of his daughters move to the Shawnee Mission School to supervise and educate. Another teacher was David Jones. There are now 33 students and the numbers will begin to increase. 200 acres are under cultivation. The manual labor system is improved. The school is now often referred to as the “ Shawnee Manual Labor School ”. In 1842, Henry Harvey and family return to Ohio. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

1854 ~ Davis W. Thayer and his wife are superintendent and matron of the Shawnee Mission. The Kansas-Nebraska Act is passed and Kansas opens up to white settlement. In the fall of 1854 Henry Harvey and sons, George and Samuel, mark their claims along the Dragoon. Henry Harvey works in the school for a while during this year. The Shawnee make another treaty with the U. S. government where they sell almost all their land to the national government. The settlement of Henry and his family on Dragoon Creek is the beginning of the “ Harvey Settlement ” in Kansas. Eventually, a village would be founded along the Dragoon and in 1880 the village of“ Harveyville ”, named after Henry Harvey and his sons, would be incorporated. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

Harveysburg, Ohio’s “ sister village ”, Harveyville, Kansas.

In 1855 Henry Harvey published his History of the Shawnee Indians, From the Year 1681 to 1854, Inclusive (Cincinnati: Ephraim Morgan & Sons, 1855). © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

The story of Harveysburg, Ohio is an interesting and illuminating history of how Quakers and other like minded people of different faith traditions dealt with two of the most difficult social issues our country has ever had to deal with and, sadly, continues to deal with in the twenty-first century ~ justice for Native Americans and justice for African-Americans. Hopefully, the story of the Harveys and Harveysburg, Ohio will inspire people to “ do what they can where they are ” because deliberate acts of equality and respect, no matter how small or how local, do transform the world. © The Mary L. Cook Public Library

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