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Note: Listed on record for workers on the Underground Railroad in Hendricks co Indiana. it lists Dr. W. F. Harvey, Dr T. B. Harvey (brother Thomas)
Bio on William Harvey while in Lawrence Douglas Co Ks:
W. F. Harvey, M. D., Physician and surgeon, was born in Clinton co. Ohio, September 20, 1825. His parents moved to Warren Co. about 1828. He was educated in Clinton and Warren Counties, finishing in the Harveysburg High School, of which his father, a practicing physician of prominence, was Superintendent . He commenced his medical studies under his father's tuition at the age of sixteen. In 1847, his father moved to the Indian Territory as Superintendent of a Friend's mission to the Shawnee Indians. Here W. F. was engaged in teaching the male classes, his sister having the female classes. In 1849, he returned to Ohio and entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1850. In the spring of 1851, he commenced practice in Hendricks County, Ind. In the spring of 1853, he moved to Kansas and located a claim on Dragoon Creek, about fifty miles southwest of Lawrence. While absent in Indiana for the purpose of bringing on his family, his improvements were all destroyed. When he returned in the fall of 1854, he settled near Blue Jacket's Crossing, Douglas County. In June 1855, disgusted with the demoralized state of society, he returned to Hendricks County, Ind. and recommenced practice. he graduated from the Indiana Medical College February. 28, 1879. He remained in practice in Hendricks County until 1876 when he moved to Iowa, and engaged in Practice in Union, Hardin County. In August, 1881, he went to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency in Indian Territory, as Government Physician. His health not being good in that locality, he removed to Lawrence, Kan in March 1882 and immediately engaged in practice. Dr. Havey was married in Parke County, Ind. in February 1853, to Miss Esther J Coffin, a native of Wayne County, Ind. They had three children-Delphina M., Horace Greenley and Susan E., not Mrs. Jesse Albertson. Dr Harvey is a member of Hendricks County Medical Society of Indiana, , State Medical Society of Indiana, The Iowa State Medical Society and the Central Iowa Medical Association.
1880 census Union, Hardin co IA
William F. Harvey physician 54 b. Ohio parents born father NC mother VA
Esther J. Harvey wife 49 b Indiana father and mother born NC
Delphina M. Harvey milliner dau 25 b Indiana
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