- HARVEY, Louis P.; was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, July
22, 1820; removed, with his
- parents, to Ohio in 1828; was educated at the Western Reserve
College; in 1840 settled at Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he taught
an academy and edited a newspaper; in 1850 removed to Rock County
and entered into active business; was a member of the first State
Constitutional Convention; was in the State Senate from 1855
to 1857; was chosen Secretary of State soon afterwards; was elected
Governor of Wisconsin in 1861; while going to the army with supplies
for the wounded after the battle of Shiloh, was drowned in the
Tennessee river, April 19, 1862.
- [Taken from "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government
of the United States" by Charles Lanman; (c)1876 James Anglim,
Publisher, Washington; p. 191]
- [Taken from "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government
of the United States" by Charles Lanman; (c)1887 J. M. Morrison,
Publisher, New York; p. 223]
-
- (same biography in 2 editions)
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