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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [330-331]

           JAMES HARVEY, deceased, a former resident on section 23,
        Chandler Township, was born Dec. 6, 1829, in Kings County, Ireland.
        His parents, JOSEPH and CATHERINE (FISHER) HARVEY, were of Irish
        origin.  The father dying when the son was but six years old, left
        the latter wholly in the charge of his mother until the age of 14
        years, when he was apprenticed to a blacksmith.  He found it a dis-
        tasteful occupation, and after giving it a year's trial he ran away
        to sea, and shipped as a seaman in the merchant service, operated
        by HARVEY & DEANS, of the city of Cork, Ireland, with whom he bound
        himself for a term.  After a servke of 18 months, he severed the
        obligations, because he received no recompense, and came to St.
        John's, N.B., where he became a seaman on an American vessel, and
        he spent some years in cruising on the principal oceans. Leaving
        the service of the sea, he engaged in that of the lakes, where he
        operated until his death, Nov. 24, 1869, on Georgian Bay. He was
        second mate of the "Aerthusa," and, while reefing sail during one
        of the severest storms on record, was swept overboard. The corres-
        pondence of his captain with his widow, spoke of the dead sailor in
        the most commendatory terms. He was an efficient seaman, strictly
        temperate and correct in all his habits. He won the respectful
        consideration of all who knew him at home or pursuing his vocation,
        was well educated, and well qualified for any calling in life.
           He was married Oct. 24, 1850, to MARY DUGGAN, a native of the
        city of Cork. She is the daughter of JAMES and MARY (BETEMAN)
        DUGGAN, both of Irish nationality. Her father was a salesman in one
        of the chief stationery shops in that city, and died at 29 years of
        age, leaving two daughters. The mother died in Cork, in 1866.
           MRS. HARVEY is the elder of her parents' children, and was
        reared to womanhood and educated in her native city. A few years
        after her marriage she removed with her husband to the United
        States, and remained a year in the city of New York. They returned
        thence to Cork, where they had a residence three years. At the end
        of that time they came again to the United States and took up a
        claim of 160 acres of land in Chandler Township. Subsequently MR.
        HARVEY became the proprietor of 120 acres additional. The entire
        acreage is still retained in the family, and 120 acres have been
        cleared, constituting one of the best farms in the township. Two
        sons of MR. and MRS. HARVEY hold 80 acres each; the widow retains
        possession of 120 acres.
           MRS. HARVEY was educated in the parish schools of St. Mary's,
        Shandon Church, situated on the River Lee. Both herself and husband
        were reared in the English Church. At the time they fixed their
        home in Huron County, the vicinity in which they located was in a
        wholly unimproved state, and they experienced all the variety and
        privations of pioneer life, which, however inconvenient, seldom
        appeared to discourage or weaken the purpose which instigated first
        settlers in their efforts to accomplish their designs.

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