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108 HARVEY, Sir John, British soldier, b. in 1778; d. in Halifax, N. S., 22 March, 1852. He entered the British army as ensign in the 80th regiment under Lord Paget, afterward the Marquis of An- glesea, whose natural son he was believed to be. After serving in Holland, France, the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, and Egypt, he returned to England in 1807, and in 1808 became assistant quarter- master-general under Lord Chatham, at Colchester. From 1809 till 1812 he commanded a regiment, and was on the staff of the adjutant-general's depart- ment in Ireland. In 1812 he was appointed deputy adjutant-general to the army in Canada, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He led the attack at Stony Creek, where he captured the American gen- erals Chandler and Winder. He received a medal for gallantry at Chrysler's Farm, and took part in the battles of Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie, where he was severely wounded. He was aide-de-camp to Wellington during his Waterloo campaign, and in 1837-'41 was governor of New Brunswick. He then became governor and commander-in-chief of Newfoundland, and in 1846 was made governor of Nova Scotia, holding this post until his death. He was nominated knight commander of the Hano- verian Guelphic order in 1824, and a knight com- mander of the order of the Bath in 1838.

HARVEY, Jonathan, congressman, b. in Mer- rimack county, N. H., in 1780; d. in Sutton, N. H., 23 Aug., 1859. He served seven years in the legis- lature, was president of the senate from 1817 till 1823, and state councillor in 1823-5. In the latter year he took his seat as a representative to con- gress from New Hampshire, serving until 1831. — His brother, Matthew, jurist, b. in Sutton, N. H., 21 June, 1781 : d. in Concord, N. H., 7 April, 1866, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1806. He studied law under John Harris, was admitted to the bar in 1809, and began to practise in Hopkinton, which town he represented in the legislature from 1814 till 1820, holding the office of speaker during the last three years of his term. He was then elected to congress as a Democrat, and served in 1821-'5. He was president of the state senate in 1825-'8, and councillor in 1828-'30. He was then elected fovernor of New Hampshire, and served one year, n 1831 he was appointed by President Jackson {'udge of the IT. S. district court, which office he leld until his death. He received the degree of LL. D. from Dartmouth in 1855, and was president of the New Hampshire historical society.

HARVEY, Louis Powell, governor of Wis- consin, b. in East Haddam, Conn., 22 Julv, 1820 ; d. in Savannah, Tenn., 19 April, 1862. In "1828 he removed with his pai'ents to Ohio, where he was educated in the Western Reserve college. He went to Kenosha, Wis., in 1840, taught there, and edited a Whig newspaper, but removed to Shopiere, Rock co., in 1850, and engaged in manufacturing. He was a member of the first State constitutional convention, and served in the state senate from 1855 till 1857. Soon afterward he was elected secretary of state, and in 1861 became governor. He was drowned while on his way to Pittsburg Landing, with supplies for the relief of wounded soldiers, after the battle of Shiloh.

HARVEY, Moses, author, b. near Armagh, Ireland, 25 March, 1820. He was graduated at Belfast college in 1840, studied theology in the Presbyterian college in that city, and was a Pres- byterian minister at Maryport, Cumberland, Eng- land, in 1843. He became minister of the Free Presbyterian church at St. John, Newfoundland, in 1852, and preached there till 1878, when he re- tired from active duties. Henceforth he engaged in literary and scientific studies, and became popu- lar as a lecturer. He studied the natural history, geology, and resources of the island, and published the result of his labors in British and American newspapers. In 1886 the council of the Royal geo- graphical society of England elected him a fellow in recognition of his services to geographical science in his works on Newfoundland and Labrador. He is the author of " Thoughts on the Poetrv and Lit- erature of the Bible" (St. John, N. F., 1853); " The Testimony of Nineveh to the Veracity of the Bible " (1854) ; " Lectures on the Harmony of Sci- ence and Revelation " (Halifax, 1856) ; " Lectures on Egypt and its Monuments, as Illustrative of Scripture" (St. John, N. F., 1857); "Lectures, Literary and Biographical" (Edinburgh, 1864); "Across Newfoundland with the Governor" (St. John, N. F., 1878); "Newfoundland, the Oldest British Colony" (London and Boston, 1883); "Text-Book of Newfoundland History" (Boston, 1885); and "Where are We and Whither Tending?" (London and Boston, 1886). He is also the author of the articles on " Labrador," " Newfoundland," and " The Seal Fisheries of the World " in the 9th edition of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica."

HARVEY, Peter, merchant, b. in Barnet, Vt., 10 July, 1810 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 27 June, 1877. His father, Alexander Harvey, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and a graduate of Oxford, came to this country to purchase land and make a settlement for a Scottish emigration company. At the age of fifteen the son was apprenticed to David Russell and Co., of Plymouth, N. H., and subsequently he went to Boston, where he engaged in business un- der the firm of Emerson, Lamb, and Harvey. Later he became a member of Harvey, Page and Co., succeeding James Tufts and Co. He was treasurer of the Rutland railroad, and president of the Kilby bank. At the beginning of the civil war he was a member of the firm of Nourse, Ma- son and Co., on the dissolution of which he re- tired from active business. He was originally a Whig, on the dissolution of this party joined the Democratic, but afterward represented a Repub- lican district in Gov. Bullock's council. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature, and in 1868 was an unsuccessful candidate for con- gress. He is principally known for having become intimately acquainted with Daniel Webster, and was perhaps his most trusted friend. He was a founder of the Marshfield club, designed to honor Webster's memory, and author of " Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster " (Boston, 1878).

HARVIE, John, statesman, b. in Gargunnock, Scotland ; d. in Richmond, Va., 6 Feb., 1807. He emigrated to Virginia in early manhood, and settled in Albemarle county. lie was a lawyer of ability, and speedily attained a large practice, thus laying the basis of subsequent wealth. In 1774 he was appointed by the general assembly of Virginia, with Dr. Thomas Walker, the Kentucky explorer, a commissioner to treat with the western Indians, after their defeat at Point Pleasant on 10 Oct. of that year by Andrew Lavis. He represented West Augusta county in the Virginia conventions of 1775 and 1776, was elected a member of congress, 22 May, 1777, for one year, and re-elected, 29 May, 1777, to serve for one year from 11 Aug. He was later a faithful and efficient purchasing agent for the state, with the provisional rank of colonel, and "was sent by the Virginia assembly on an important mission to the American army." He was register of the land-office of Virginia, which he organized in 1780-'91, and was commissioned secretary of the commonwealth, 19 May, 1788, but how long