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Rock County, Wisconsin

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"Louis P. Harvey"

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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