The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 639

GEORGE B. HARVEY.

George B. Harvey, a well known and successful agriculturist of the Kittitas
valley, where he has been actively identified with farming interests for the
past fourteen years, is now engaged in the cultivation of a quarter section of
land in the vicinity of Thorp. He was born in Indiana, March 3, 1880, a son of
Samuel Henry and Sallie Harvey, who removed to Nebraska in 1882 and throughout
the intervening period of thirty-six years have made their home in Falls City of
the latter state.

George B. Harvey acquired a public school education in his youth and also
pursued a business course at Falls City, Nebraska. When a young man of
twenty-four years he made his way westward to Washington, taking up his abode in
the Kittitas valley in May, 1904. After working for others for two years he
rented a farm of one hundred and sixty acres near Thorp from Mrs. Amy A. Ellison
and has since devoted his efforts and attention to its further cultivation,
raising grain and hay and also some stock. Wide-awake, energetic and
industrious, he has met with success in his undertakings and enjoys an enviable
reputation as a representative and prosperous farmer of his community.

On the 25th of December, 1905, Mr. Harvey was united in marriage to Miss Rosa
Etta Ellison, a daughter of John C. and Amy A. (Childs) Ellison, who are
mentioned on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of John W.
Ellison, who is a brother of Mrs. Harvey and a successful young merchant of the
town of Thorp. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey are the parents of two children, Olive and
Elmer, aged twelve and ten years respectively.

In politis Mr. Harvey is a stanch republican, exercising his right of franchise
in support of the men and measures of that party. He is a self-made man whose
prosperity is attributable entirely to his own labors and whose life in all of
its relations as such as commands for him the confidence and esteem of those
with whom he is associated.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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