From records James McKenzie had in the Library
at Campbeltown, Argyllshire, of which he was the librarian, and from what
Christine Harvey knew and told us, it would appear that the Harveys came
originally from France, where the names was spelled H-e-r-v-e. Being Huguenots,
persecution drove them across the Channel to Cornwall, whence in time they
spread up the coast to Ayrshire where they became Covenanters. when Claverhouse
harried the Covenanters, they took refuge in Argyllshire where Harveys
were so numerous in Kintire that a glen took their name and was called
Glenie Hervie. They came to the region in 1688. Two Harveys, father and
son, were for the better part of a century the light house keepers at the
Mull of Kintire. On the membership roll of the Relief Church of Campbeltown
were more Harveys than any other name. This church was organized in protest
against unacceptable appointments to the parish church by the Earl of Argyll.
OLD KILKERRAN CEMETERY
Just outside of Campbeltown is the old Kilkerran
Cemetery, where a dozen or more Harveys lie buried, apparently of three
different branches, but all related no doubt. two or three times we visited
this cemetery, trying to locate the grave of grandfather John Harvey of
Rothesay, but were unable to find it. There is little doubt he was buried
here, for he spent his last days in Campbeltown. Ordinarily he would have
been buried in the Ramshorn Cemetery in Glasgow, where his wife Elizabeth
Campbell Harvey was buried, but shortly after her death that cemetery was
closed, and he could not be buried there. No doubt, therefore, he found
his last resting place in the old Kilkerran Cemetery at Campbeltown where
he died. This is confirmed by portraits of John Harvey and his wife that
were in the possession of cousin Maggie Harvey and at her death were passed
on to cousin John Mathews. On the back of John Harvey's portrait Maggie
had written: "Ramshorn closed. Buried at Kilkerran." This is
certainly definite, and seems to settle it that he was indeed buried in
old Kilkerran Cemetery along with others of his name.
The wonder remains that there is no stone to mark
his grave. There is a stone, however, erected to a William Harvey by his
son John Harvey. And John Harvey's brother James erected this stone:
By
John Harvey, Baker
In memory of his
Parents Isobell Orr
who died 17 Jan 1820
Aged 71 yrs
William Harvey, Merchant
who died 23 July 1828
Aged 80 yrs.
It seems likely that John Harvey erected his own
stone to his father's memory with the expectation that at his own death
his own name would be placed on the blank space below his father's name,
but that from carelessness or neglect this was never done.
OLD RAMSHORN CEMETERY
On Aug.2, 1937, we went with Christine Harvey to
St.. David's Church on Ingram Street, near George Square, Glasgow, to have
a look at the old Ramshorn Cemetery, long closed, and here we found the
grave of grandmother Elizabeth Campbell Harvey, alongside that of her father,
marked "Grave 102, East Wall," and the stone bearing the legend:
This is the burial place of the
late Mr. Archibald Campbell
Manufacturer
in Glasgow
who died upon the XVII day of February
MDCCCXXXV
aged seventy-one years
and of
his daughter Elizabeth
wife of
Mr. John Hervey, Rothesay
who died upon the X day of January
MDCCCXXXV
aged thirty-nine years
WILLIAM Harvey
(1748-1828)
We can trace our Harvey line back, then, to William
Harvey, merchant, who died July 23, 1828, at 80 years of age, and was,
therefore, born in 1748. He married Isobell Orr, who was born in 1749,
and died Jan 17, 1820, at 71 years of age. They seem to have lived in Campbeltown,
or nearby, for, as we have seen, they were buried in the Kilkerran Cemetery
and were remembered by a stone erected by their son James Harvey, the baker.
Large families were the rule in those days, but the
only children of William Harvey and Isobell Orr of whom we know are this
son James, who as a baker in Campbeltown it would seem, his brother John
Harvey, and another brother, Thomas.
JOHN Harvey
(date unknown)
John Harvey, our grandfather, was probably born in
Campbeltown, as it appears that his brother and parents lived there. He
would seem to have been a man of venturesome spirit and ability, not content
to remain in Campbeltwon, but going off to the great city of Glasgow to
seek his fortune, and there rising in the world until he became a prosperous
silk merchant and was able to establish for his family what in those days
must have seemed a splendid home at Rothesay, on the Isle of Butte, at
the mouth of the Clyde. Cascade House was the name it took, because of
a cascade falling down the rocky cliff behind it. He built the house himself,
and it marked him as a merchant of wealth and importance.
We do not have the dates of John Harvey's birth and
death, but as he died several years after his son Archibald's marriage
in America (1856), it was somewhere around 1860 that he died.
Father Archibald Harvey had photographs of the original
portraits of his parents, and from these had India ink enlargements made
which are now in our possession and hang on our walls.
Chasing the Pigeons
There is a family legend that when John Harvey of
Rothesay retired to Campbeltown, he and the Anglican minister became cronies
and used to share many a bottle. Grandfather used to take long walks and
became aware that in his absence from his lodgings some one was dropping
in and helping himself to his whiskey. he resorted to a trick to discover
the thief. The next time he went out he paid some boys to catch a pigeon
for him, put it in the sideboard where he kept his whiskey, set out on
his usual walk, cut it short, and when he got back earlier than usual to
his rooms, found the clergyman chasing around the room trying to catch
the pigeon!
Marries a Belle
Prospering as a silk merchant, John Harvey wooed
and won Elizabeth Campbell, a society belle of Glasgow, whose father was
a Glasgow manufacturer, and whose family, so the legend runs, thought she
had married beneath her. They belonged to the Campbell Clan, and had a
castle, "Tillechewan", which is still standing on the shore of
Loch Lomond, and is still in the possession of the Campbell Family, we
were told. Be this as it may, love had its way, John and Elizabeth were
married, he provided for her the mansion at Rothesay, and although she
was only 39 when she died, they reared a large family, the girls all being
born first, and then the boys.
The Children
The children born to John Harvey and Elizabeth Campbell
at Rothesay were:
Mary
Eliza
Agnes
Jane
Isabella
Frances
John
Archibald
Richard
William Campbell
Of the six sisters, two, Isabella and Frances, died
of small pox at the ages of 18 and 20, and were buried in the church yard
at Rothesay, where I saw the graves and read the stones on my first visit
in 1908.
The other four sisters married as follows:
Mary, the eldest, married James Harvey, a farmer,
of Baraskomel, who died May 19, 1856, at the age of 39. Mary died June
3, 1907, at the age of 84. Their daughter Margaret was living in Rothesay
at the time of my visit in 1908, and I called on her. She died April 3,
1922, at 71 years of age.
Eliza married a John Patterson, youngest son of an
Irish lord, who emigrated to America with his family, stopped for a while
at No. 8, Avenue 27th, in New York City, then at 100 Dove Street, Albany,
New York, and finally moved out to Kansas where he set up an ambitious
estate, and lived in style, till he ran through with his money and died,
leaving his family destitute. In the Appendix will be found a most interesting
letter Eliza received from her father, written at Campbeltown Nov. 10,
1848, with a postscript addressed to her husband which indicates that John
Harvey felt none too sure as to his Irish son-in-law getting on well in
America.
Agnes married a Bell, an Anglican clergyman, whose
last charge was in Helensburg, on the Clyde, not far from Glasgow. Their
daughter Eliza was the cousin Eliza Bell to whose sick bed we paid our
visit with cousins Christine and Eliza Harvey in the fall of 1937. She
only lived a few months after that, and died at the age of 90.
Jane married a Gibson, who also was an Anglican clergyman.
Of this Rev. Robert Gibson I have no information. They had three children.
There names were Robert, John and Harvey.
Of the four sons of John Harvey of Rothesay:
RICHARD Harvey came to America ahead of father Archibald
Harvey and located in Boston, living there for years and making frequent
visits back to Scotland. In his later years he bought a place in the Ozarks,
living there for a short time, and died in New York City at an advanced
age. We used to see him now and then. He had two sons, Blanchard and Archie,
now dead, and a daughter Mary who went to Africa (as a governess, we understand)
and lived there for years. Cousin Eliza Harvey of Glasgow paid her a visit
and spent a year with her in South Africa not long ago.
JOHN Harvey married Isabella Mackenzie Ure Feb. 29,
1846, and was the father of William Ure Harvey, George, Christine and Sidney
Harvey. In 1908 I visited George and Christine at their London apartment.
George and Christine never married. Christine is now (1941) living at Ruislip,
near London, and is 82 years old. We saw a lot of her in London the winter
of 1937-38. George died soon after I saw him in 1908. Sidney we did not
see, William Ure Harvey I visited in 1908 at his beautiful home, "Normanhurst",
in Bearsden, a suburb of Glasgow, and in 1925 he called to see us at More's
Hotel, where we were stopping, but was then in very poor health, and died
soon afterwards. He was in the wholesale plumbing business, "Wm. McLeod
& Co.," 40 Robertson St., Glasgow, and I was made most welcome
in the home at Bearsden, and had the pleasantest impression of him and
his wife when I visited them in 1908.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL Harvey was accidentally drowned
at the Greenock pier about 1890. He was the father of John Campbell, Mary,
Eliza, William Campbell, and Charles.
John Campbell Harvey and his sister Mary were running
the Rothesay Chronicle when I visited him 1908. Both are now dead. He had
a daughter Jennie who now lives in Lochgilpheaad, where we saw her as we
passed through in 1937.
Eliza is the cousin Eliza Harvey of Glasgow who,
with Christine and Eliza Bell, made up the three first cousins we had the
good visit with at Helensburg and in Glasgow in August, 1937. She was for
many years a much beloved Queen's nurse in Rothesay. When the four cousins
got together, their ages ran: Harriet Harvey Zorbaugh 70, Eliza Harvey
74, Christine Harvey 79, and Eliza Bell 89.
William Campbell Harvey II was editor of the Argyllshire
Advertiser, founded by his father, at Lochgilphead, and ran it till he
died, when his sons, William Campbell Harvey III took it over and is now
running it. In August, 1937, as we were motoring from Campbeltown to Glasgow,
we stopped over night in Lochgilphead, and saw the widow of William Campbell
Harvey II.
Charles Harvey we saw nothing of.
ARCHIBALD Harvey
(1827-1914)
Archibald Harvey was born at Rothesay Oct. 21, 1827,
in "Cascade House", the family mansion facing Rothesay Bay, a
stone house with two wings. When we visited Rothesay in 1925 we saw the
house, the cemetery where his two young sisters were buried, the Anglican
church where the family worshiped (it was extremely "high church"),
the shops, the old castle, and the very iron fastened in the shelving stone
in front of the house, by the water's edge, where he would many a time
have tied up his boat after a ride in the Bay.
Sailing before the Mast
When his school days were over, Archibald Harvey
spent some time at Londonderry, in the north of Ireland, in the business
of a friend of his father who also was a silk merchant. The silk was imported
from the Orient, and, as a young fellow, Archibald made two sailing trips,
on one of which he spent some two years as manager of a coffee plantation
at Calcutta. His father had hoped to buy him an interest in a vessel, "a
vessel for himself and one owner," feeling sure he would be "careful
and continue steady."
We have among our relics the "Mariner's Register
Ticket, No. 195586" issued by the Collector and Comptroller of the
Port of Glasgow on the 24th of April, 1836, which describes Archibald Harvey
as
"Born
at Glasgow in the County of Lanark on the September 1830. Capacity, Seaman.
Height 5 ft. 8 1/2 inches; Hair, brown; Complexion, fair; Eyes, blue; Marks
on person, Anchor on left arm."
Interesting, but inaccurate! He was born at Rothesay Oct.
21, 1827.
Off to America
A few years at sea were enough for him. In 1851,
at 24 years of age, he came to America, and never saw Scotland again. He
carried with him his birth and baptismal certificate (now in our possession).
"Archibald
Harvey son of John Harvey Rothesay and Elizabeth Campbell his wife born
21st October and baptized 26th November 1827, "
and attested as follows:
"Extracted from the REGISTER OF BIRTHS AND BAPTISMS
belonging to the Kirk-Session of the Parish of Rothesay, this thirtieth
day of September One Thousand and Eight hundred and forty-seven years,
by me, Session-Clerk and Keeper of the said Register. John Palmer."
His first
stop was a short stay in Boston with his brother Richard. He then went
west, visited friends in Chicago where he saw little to attract him, and
finally settled down at Morris, Illinois, where the Lambs, friends of the
family, were living.
Begins Railroading
In June, 1854, he went to work for the Rock Island
Railroad Company. This was the beginning of 35 years of service with the
Rock Island, ending in October, 1889. After a time he was sent to Marengo,
Iowa, to open up that terminal office and station, and then, in August,
1858, to Washington, Iowa, which now became his home for the rest of his
life, he serving as passenger agent until he retired in 1889. He liked
the railroad service, and with his exceptional intelligence, character
and conscientiousness must have been one of the most reliable and useful
men in the service of the company. He had, of course, free transportation
over the Rock Island System, and would take the family now and then for
a vacation trip to Duluth, or Mackinaw, or some other delightful spot.
He Marries
On August 6, 1856, he married Ellen Cordelia Clapp,
of Morris, Illinois. We have the marriage certificate, signed by E. N.
Jencks, Minister of the Gospel, certifying to the marriage "at my
residence in Bruce, La Salle Co., Illinois." The bride's name is given
as Miss Helen Clapp. He was 29, and she was 19.
The Washington Home
In Washington, Iowa, Archibald Harvey built himself
a modest but most comfortable and attractive home. In time he came into
his share of his father's fortune, invested in farm mortgages, became a
bank director, and made an honored name for himself as a citizen. he was
a lover of good horses, and always had a fine animal in his stable. When
he retired his garden became his hobby, and never was a garden kept so
scrupulously and meticulously free from weeds, or garden tools kept so
clean. He always had the best fruit and vegetables in the neighborhood,
and it was a wonder to see how he trained his tomatoes on trellises, and
how they rewarded him.
In the first years of their life in Washington he
and his wife belonged to the Presbyterian Church, but when the Civil War
broke out there was trouble in the church, the minister preached against
slavery, some Copperheads in the congregation forced him out, and a group
of members, among them being Archibald Harvey, left the church in protest
against the treatment the minister received. He never connected himself
with another church, but the rest of the family joined the methodist Church,
and were active in its fellowship and work.
The Children
To Archibald Harvey and Ellen Cordelia Clapp, his
wife, were born the following children:
Name:
Clara A
Laura
Lora Ellen
Harriet Campbell
Archibald Stanley
Born:
Apr 2, 1858
Sept. 4, 1860
July 29, 1863
Aug. 22, 1866
Sept. 13, 1872
Died:
May 13, 1859
March 6, 1861
July 22, 1908
________
March 3, 1936
Lora Ellen Harvey married David Henry Worthington,
Dec. 4, 1890. They lived for a time in Fairfield where Dr. Worthington
followed his profession as a physician. Lora was his second wife. By the
first wife he had a daughter, Stella, now Mrs. John F. Robb, whose husband
is a patent attorney and whose home on Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is as open
and free to us as if we belonged to the family. Indeed, though there is
no blood kinship, we think of Stella always as a niece.
Moving to Virginia, Dr. Worthington and Lora, his
wife, and Stella settled in Hampton, where the doctor practiced medicine
many years. Here Lora's only child, Elinor, was born July 24, 1902. Elinor,
on the death of her mother in 1908, was adopted by her uncle Frank Worthington,
of Aurora, Illinois, where she now lives. She graduated at Oberlin College,
took library training, and was for several years a librarian in Youngstown,
Ohio.
Archibald Stanley Harvey was a pharmacist, and followed
that profession in Washington, and for some years at Old Point Comfort,
Virginia. He never married, and lived his last years in the old home at
Washington, Iowa, where in 1936 he died.
Harriet Campbell Harvey is my wife. We were married
in the home at Washington, Sept. 5, 1894, by here pastor, Dr. Coxe, of
the Methodist Church, in an early morning ceremony, followed by the wedding
breakfast, and took the train to Chicago where we took the steamer, Ulysses
S. Grant, and for our honeymoon trip took the lake voyage to Mackinaw and
down to Belle Isle, and then to Cleveland where I had begun my ministry
at Windermere.
Harriet was born in Washington, Iowa, Aug. 22, 1866;
went through the public schools; entered Parsons College to graduate with
the Class of 1888; taught in her home town a year; and for the last four
years before our marriage was principal of the Preparatory Department of
Portland Academy, at Portland, Oregon. For a further account of her, and
for the list of our children, the reader is referred to the Zorbaugh Section
of this history.
Death and Burial
Archibald Harvey died in the home at Washington,
April 21, 1914, at 86 1/2 years of age. His wife did not long survive him,
passing away June 30, 1916, at 79 years and eight months. They are buried
in the family lot in the cemetery at Washington, Iowa. Upon their son Archie's
death in 1936, the old home was sold and passed into the hands of strangers.
