David A. Harvey
David A. Harvey was born
at Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, in 1845. His parents migrated to Ohio
when he was six years old. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in
the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, leaving the army after three and
on-half years of continuous service, at the end of the Civil War.
He then entered Miami
University. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in
1869. He located at Topeka, Kansas, where he practiced law and
served as city attorney and probate judge. He early became
interested in the Oklahoma movement and was active in the agitation
for the opening of Oklahoma for settlement.
He located at Oklahoma
City, April 22, 1889. He was nominated for delegate to Congress
by the Territorial Republican convention at Guthrie, October 18, 1890,
and on November 4, he was elected to both long and short terms taking
his seat when the Fifty-first Congress re-convened in December, 1890,
and serving till the end of the Fifty-second Congress, March 3,
1893.
Mr. Harvey subsequently
located at Miami, where he still lives (1908).
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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