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LEE B. HARVEY, M. D

	The medical profession of Stevens county finds a worthy representative in
Dr. Lee B. Harvey, who has been located at Colville for eleven years past and
has gained a reputation which is not confined within the limits of the state of
Washington. He comes of good Scotch and English ancestry and was born in
Montgomery, Alabama, October 12, 1868, a son of Z. and Jane (Emerson) Harvey.
The father died in 1892 and the mother passed away one year later. The ancestors
of our subject on the paternal side were early Scotch and English settlers in
the United States, a granduncle serving with high credit in the Civil war.
	In the public schools of his native state Lee B. Harvey received his
preliminary education. Subsequently he became a student of tlh University of
Alabama, from which he was graduated with the degree of A. B. Having decided to
devote his life to the healing art, he entered the medical department of the
University of St. Louis and after pursuing the regular course was graduated in
1900 with the degree of M. D. Immediately after receiving his diploma he came to
Colville and has since actively engaged in practice at this place. In 1904 he
went to Chicago and took a postgraduate course of three months in Cook County
Hospital, under the auspices of the University of Chicago. Two years later he
pursued a similar course at the University of Pennsylvania and in 1908 visited
the celebrated Mayo Brothers at Rochester, Minnesota, and spent several weeks at
their hospital, observing their methods and gaining valuable information as to
the most successful methods in surgery. In 1905 Dr. Harvey built the Colville
Sanitarium, of which he is manager and owner. This institution is strictly
modern in all its appointments and is considered one of the most complete
establishments of the kind in the northwest, its patrons being attracted from a
wide region tributary to Washington.
	On the 3d of October, 1891, Dr. Harvey was married to Miss Cora Goakey, a
daughter of Joseph Goakey, who is a prominent farmer of the Columbia river
region. Politically Dr. Harvey adheres to the democratic party, believing that
its principles are highly conducive to the prosperity of the country. He has
taken the interest of a patriotic citizen in public affairs and served as mayor
of Colville from 1900 to 1909, when he resigned, proving one of the most
efficient officials the town has known. He also has filled the positions of city
and county health officer and discharged his duties with the highest efficiency.
He is a stanch believer in the great principle of brotherhood and has taken
various degrees of Free Masonry including those of the commandery and shrine. He
was master of Colville Lodge, A. F. & A. M., for four years. He belongs to the
Odd Fellows and has passed through all the chairs of the subordinate lodge in
that order, being also a member of the Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the
World. He is a constant student, a close and accurate observer, and he has
spared no pains or expense in securing instruction under acknowledged masters in
medicine and surgery. The ability he has shown in his practice and the interest
he has taken in his patients have been productive of a gratifying degree of
success and he ranks today as one of the most prominent physicians in this part
of the state.

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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in October 2015 by Diane Wright.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.