Person:Henry Harvey (7)

He took charge of the Friends School among the Shawnee Indians near Wapakoneta, OH and moved there with his family in 1830.

    A note from Springfield MM issued in 1832 states: "Henry Harvey, the Superintendent of Friends Establishment on Indian Civilization near Wapakoneta informed this Meeting that he has prospect of attending at the City of Washington on a deputation of the committee of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends on Indian concerns, to accompany certain chiefs of the Shawnee Nation in presenting a memorial to the General Government on their behalf. These are to certify whom it may concern that he is a member of our Society and in unity with us."
    It is said that he loved the Indians and they loved him. After the Shawnees were moved to Johnson County, Kansas, near where Kansas City, MO is now, and mission work was set up among them, he and his family moved there in 1840 and took charge. They stayed two years and returned to their home in the Springfield community. They went back to the mission later and stayed two years longer. He wrote a history of the Shawnee Indians in 1855. Harveyville, KS was named for him. He was a delegate to a Kansas Free State convention from his district.
    From the book "New Branches from Old Trees" printed in 1976 and put together by the Wabaunsee County Historical Society, this is what they say about Harveyville: "The city of Wilmington, south of Harveyville, was a thriving little town on the Santa Fe Train until the railroad went through what is now Harveyville, in 1880. However, the history of the Harvey settlement dates back to 1854, when Henry Harvey and his two sons took land on the Dragoon Creek. Henry Harvey had first come to this area as a Quaker missionary to the Indians in 1840. The land where Harveyville now stands was originally patent deeded to Samuel Harvey, son of Henry Harvey."

Contributed by N.E. Almond.

"Farewell, dear child, my only living girl, my other two dear creatures and Caleb and my dear good Henry, I can never see or hear from this side of the grave." Last paragraph of the letter written to daughter Deborah, as Henry lay on his deathbed. Per Dorothy Madden Luther.

1. ↑ Harvey History "Book", by N. E. Almond, 12/99..
2. ↑ Family History by Dorothy Madden Luther. (circa 1999).

   Family History by Dorothy Madden Luther., circa 1999.

3. ↑ Stephen Jackson Spear. Reminiscenses Of the Early Settlement of Dragoon Creek, Wabaunsee County. (Kansas State Historical Society)
   pages 345- 363.
4. ↑ The Quaker Collection; Jerry Richmond Files, 1999. (<invalid link - 12 May 2017>).