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EDWARD HARVEY.
HON. EDWARD HARVEY, of Allentown, a prominent member of the Lehigh County bar, and late President-Judge of the Thirty-first Judicial District of Pennsylvania, was born at Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., January 17, 1844. His father was Dr. George T. Harvey, aphysician of repute at Doylestown, who belonged to one of the oldest fam- ilies in Bucks County. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary Kinsey LaRue, was likewise de- scended from an old and highly respectable local family. In his early boyhood the subject of this sketch was a pupil in the public schools of his na- tive town. He was introduced to the academic branches of study under the tutelage of the Rev. S. A. Andrews, D.D., who had a select school in
Doylestown, and, when properly qualified, he entered the Lawrenceville High School, at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, then under the management of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hamill, where he finished his academic training and was prepared for college. In 1860, being then in his seventeenth year, he entered Princeton College, where he pursued the regular course until some time in the junior year, when he left to engage in the study of law in the office of the Hon. George Lear, of Doylestown, an old friend of his father, and at that time the leading member of the Bucks County bar, and subsequently Attor- ney General of Pennsylvania, under Governor Hart- ranft. While reading law, Mr. Harvey gave some attention to public speaking, availing himself of such opportunities for practice as occasion threw in his way. Although young in years he was an ardent Democrat, and having closely studied the great political questions of the day, was more than ordinarily qualified to voice his opinions from the rostrum. In 1864, before he had come to man's es- tate, he made a public speech at Allentown. His reception by the people was so cordial, and his im- pressions of the place so favorable, that he deter- mined it should be his future home. Mr. Harvey was admitted to the bar in Bucks County at the September term, 1865, and at the November term, he was, on motion of the Hon. S. A. Bridges, ad- mitted to practice in the courts of Lehigh County. He removed to Allentown, January 1, 1866, and at once began the practice of his profession in that city. Applying himself with diligence to hard, dry, and often uncongenial work, which generally falls to the lot of the young lawyer, he soon found that his services were in demand in the higher walks of his profession. Here his excellent fundamental educa- tion proved of the greatest value ; and, combined with natural qualities of a brilliant order, close habits of study and a fluent delivery, made his prog- ress in professional life rapid and conspicuous. In a comparatively brief period of time he attained to the leading position among his colleagues at the Lehigh County bar, and has since easily held this position. In his busy career of close npon a quar- ter of a century, he has been retained as counsel in nearly all the principal causes tried in the local courts, being of late years the leading counsel ; and has frequently been called to try cases in the neigh- boring counties, and also in the Federal Courts in Philadelphia. Judged from almost any point of view, it is probable that no member of the Lehigh County bar has achieved greater success as a lawyer, or enjoys a larger or more remunerative practice. Mr. Harvey has never been an office seeker; on the contrary has repeatedly declined the most flattering
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appointments and nominations, preferring the steady practice of the law to a tumultuous career in the exciting but uncertain paths of politics. Although frequently urged by his party friends to accept nom- ination for office, he has never been in an aggressive sense a candidate. He was chosen to represent Lehigh and Carbon in the State Constitutional Con- vention of 1873, and was a member of the Commit- tee on Corporations. In March, 1877, when the First National Bank of Allentown was compelled to suspend, through the unexpected failure of Messrs. William H. Blumer & Co., bankers, Mr. Harvey was chosen its President. His duties were respon- sible and delicate, as the bank was in liquidation, and its assets needed careful handling to insure pay- ment of the debts. The discharge of these duties called for masterly legal ability and no mean finan- cial skill, but Mr. Harvey proved fully equal to the task laid upon him, and in his successful and satis- factory conduct of the bank's affairs may be said to have scored one of the notable triumphs of his professional life. On January 14, 1878, Mr. Harvey was appointed by Governor Hartranft President- Judge of the Thirty-first Judicial District of Penn- sylvania, to fill the vacancy created by the resigna- tion of Judge Longaker. Coming from a Republican Executive, this appointment was a very great com- pliment to its recipient, and one of the highest evidences possible of the confidence and esteem in which he was generally held in his native State. In the large number of cases which he tried while on the bench, Judge Harvey proved himself the posses- sor of talents of a high order, and a master of the intricacies of the law. Learned, impartial, and merciful while just, ne earned the respect of both the bar and the public, and retired from office, after holding court almost continuously until January, 1879, with an enhanced reputation for probity and learning. Only six of his cases were appealed or removed to the Supreme Court for revision, and he was affirmed in all of them. In 1878 he was urged to accept an independent nomination for Judge of Lehigh County, but declined. In the following year he was asked by a number of the members of the bar of Berks County to be a candidate for Judge in that locality, but declined. In 1882 he was waited upon by a committee of the Judicial Conferees of Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, and asked to be a candidate for Judge of that District, but declined. In 1886, upon the resignation of the Hon. George A. Jenks as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, he was summoned to the National Capital and tendered the position. He gave the matter careful consideration, but was compelled to decline because of his large business interests in Lehigh.
In this, as in the previous instances, he gracefully expressed his sincere appreciation of the high com- pliment conferred upon him. Judge Harvey was a delegatc to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, in 1884, and voted for the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, whom he supported in his State in the campaign of that year with conspicuous zeal. Without taking that prominent part in politics which is incumbent upon those who seek office or care for political strife, Judge Harvey has nevertheless done loyal service for his party, publicly and privately advocating its principles, and with rare exceptions sustaining its regularly nominated candidates. In local and State party councils his views are sought and invariably exert great weight. Although not connected directly with any corporate church body, Judge Harvey is an Episcopalian in his religious be- lief, and carries out in his daily life, in his sympa- thies and charities, the convictions of the Christian faith. In his personality are to be found all the agreeable characteristics which go to make up the scholarly and courteous gentleman. Professionally and officially his life has been a most successful one, and his talents and capacity are admitted and re- spected by men whose opinions are beyond ques- tion. Socially, his relations with the community in which he has spent so large a portion of his life, and in which his professional successes have been achieved, are of the most charming nature. All the surroundings of his home life denote culture, good taste and comfort, without any attempt at ostenta- tion. One of his most valued treasures is his law library, which contains about three thousand well selected, standard and rare volumes, and is regarded by competent judges as the largest and most im- portant in Eastern Pennsylvania, outside of Phila- delphia.
C. FRANK HAINES.
C. FRANK HAINES, of Allentown, and the present editor of the Democrat of that place, is a great-grandson of John Wilhelm Haintz, who emi- grated from Zweibruecken, Bavaria, in 1751, and settled in Upper Macungie, Lehigh County, where he followed his trade of tailor. Having acquired about five hundred acres of land, he also engaged in its cultivation. He married and had among his children a son, Peter, who inherited the paternal acres, and was during his active life both a mer- chant and a farmer. He married Barbara Becker, and had children : Jacob, Joseph, James, Charles B., William, Jonathan, Thomas, Elizabeth (Mrs. Joseph Trexler), and one who died in infancy.
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Charles B. was born in Upper Macungie, and early learned the trade of a shoemaker, which he followed in various portions of Lehigh County, until 1838, when he removed to Allentown. Here his services were in demand in connection with his trade, until 1859, when he was elected Sheriff of Lehigh County for one term. He married Leah, daughter of Jonathan Schwartz, of Lower Macungie town- ship, and had children: C. Frank, Simon, Mary (Mrs. William S. Esser), Eliza J. and Allen W. C. Frank, the eldest of this number, was born on the 24th of January, 1832, in Macungie borough, then known as Millerstown, and when a youth re- moved to Trexlertown, where he became a pupil of the village school. In 1838 he accompanied his parents to Allentown, and there continued his studies at both public and private schools. At the age of fourteen he chose as his life-work the printers' art, and served a four-years' apprentice- ship in the office of the Lehigh Register. On acquir- ing his trade he remained with the paper as com- positor until April, 1850, when a larger field was opened in Philadelphia, where he remained until 1854. During the summer of that year he, in con- nection with a partner, purchased the Register, and, returning to Allentown, continued its publication under the firm name of Haines & Diefenderfer. This business association was continued until 1856, when, upon the retirement of Mr. Diefenderfer, the firin became Haines & Huber. Having disposed of his interest in the paper, in 1859, he, with his father-in-law, A. L. Ruhe, purchased the Allentown Democrat, and has continued its publication until the present time, W. K. Ruhe having in the year 1865, purchased the interest of his father. Mr. Haines, by his ability and judgment, has succeeded in making the Democrat one of the most enterpris- ing journals of the Lehigh Valley. Bright, able and apace with current events, it is justly popular among the adherents of the party whose principles it advocates. Mr. Haines, having from the first devoted his attention to the interests of the paper, has found little time for participation in affairs of a public nature. In religion he is a member of St. John's Reformed Church. He was married, De- cember 31, 1861, to Emma C., eldest daughter of A. L. Ruhe, of Allentown. Their children are two daughters : Ida R. and Sallie A.
WALTER C. QUINCY.
WALTER COTTRELL QUINCY, General Mana- ger of the Monongahela Connecting Railroad Com- pany, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, January
16, 1831. The Quincy family is one of the oldest and most respectable in the United States. Re- motely it is of Norman origin, and under its original territorial designation of de Quincy is known to the present day in France, in which country it has had several distinguished representatives, among them being the eminent historical writer Charles Sevin, Marquis de Quincy, author of a Military History of Louis, the Grand Monarch. Among the Norman knights and gentlemen who followed the fortunes of William the Conqueror in his invasion of England was Robert de Quincy, a descendant of whom, De- Quincy, Earl of Winchester, was one of the noblemen of England who, at Runnymede, on the memorable 15th of June, 1215, wrested from King John the Great Charter of English liberty, the foundation of the English and the remote inspiration of the Amer- ican Constitutions. A number of distinguished En- glishmen have borne the ancient name of De Quincy, or Quincy, as it came in time to be written. Cap- tain Jolın D. Quincy, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of St. Bartholomew, Swe- den. He was a sea-captain by profession, and for many years sailed from the port of Baltimore in the service of the old and wealthy shipping firm of Wil- son and Peterkin. Walter Cottrell Quincy, who de- rives his middle name from Captain Cottrell, was brought up in Baltimore and Washington, and at- tended school in both cities, receiving a good En- glish education, which in later life he supplemented by diligent study of many scientific subjects and a course of general reading. In his eighteenth year the influence of the late Benjamin Deford, an old friend of his family, secured him employment with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. He entered the service of this corporation in March, 1849, in the capacity of back-chainman in its engi- neer corps, thien under the general supervision of the distinguished engineer, Benjamin H. Latrobe. In 1850 he was promoted to be an Assistant Engineer of Construction, and, in 1853, became Resident En- gineer of Construction for the Parkersburgh R. R., remaining thus employed until 1856, when he was made Engineer of Second Track and Maintenance of Way of the Main Line and Branchies. The duties of this position included the repairing of tracks, bridges, structures, arching tunnels, and other im- portant work, and during the War of the Rebellion threw upon him the gravest responsibilities in the matter of the maintenance of the road and bridges for the transportation of troops and supplies. In 1868 he was appointed Assistant Master of Transportation and Road for the Central Ohio, Lake Erie and Straits- ville Divisions. In 1870 he was elected Director in the Central Ohio Railroad, and President of the
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Newark, Somerset and Straitsville Railroad; in 1871 General Superintendent of the Central Ohio, Lake Erie and Straitsville Divisions ; in 1872 he was elected President of the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad Co., and in 1874, General Man- ager of the Trans-Ohio Divisions. In July, 1878, he resigned these last named positions, after holding them several years, but remained in the Board of Directors until 1879, after having completed a con- tinuous term of almost thirty years in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Co. The esteem in which his ser_ vices were held is amply shown from first to last by his rapid promotion and by the important responsi- bilities of the positions he eventually filled. But they had a significance and value beyond that in which they were considered simply from a cor- porate point of view; in fact they were for several years of National and historic importance. When a complete detailed history of the stirring events which occurred between the beginning of 1861 and the close of 1865, is written, railroad work, which played so important and necessary a part in these events, must receive proper attention. Mr. Quincy's duties during this trying period in our National affairs were often of the most arduous character, and frequently called into play qualities of judg- ment, discretion, energy and promptness of action which mark the able general as well as the efficient railway officer. Not infrequently they called for the exercise of both physical and mental endurance far beyond the ordinary requirements of business. Under the distinguished President of the road at that time-the late John W. Garrett,-in whose confidence and esteem he appears to have been most firmly entrenched, he was constantly relied upon to accomplish results which could hardly have been expected from a less experienced official. On one occasion in 1862, having successfully carried out the orders of his chief, the latter telegraphed him, under March 30th, his congratulations, adding : "The achievements of your department are such as to at- tract great attention, and command the highest sat- isfaction of the company. Your personal energies and persistent and successful efforts are fully ap- preciated." On the following day the late Wm. Prescott Smith, who was then the efficient Master of Transportation of the company, telegraphed Mr. Quincy in the following enthusiastic language : " Consider yourself saluted by three thousand cheers and five thousand guns, for your successful efforts in restoring the road. I congratulate you : you have achieved much and shall receive the credit due you." In 1863, having again opened the road-thus preventing delays which might have been fraught with the most serious results to the Union cause,
and proved extremely damaging to the interests of the company,-Mr. Quincy received from Mr. Gar- rett, under date April 26th, a telegram in reply to his report announcing the successful completion of his work, which reads as follows : " Your report is gratifying. The preservation of the road and bridges have been particularly important at this time, and I trust the entire line can be managed in reliable working condition, as important movements upon which our continued safety may depend may require its use." On numberless occasions, including many of great moment, Mr. Quincy's command of re- sources and his genius in solving perplexing diffi- culties enabled him to achieve brilliant results. A reference to one of these occasions occurs in the Annual Report of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for 1864, in the following words : "On the 10th of April, 1864, the waters of the Potomac River at Harpers's Ferry became swollen to a great height, with much heavy drift running. The wide span of the trestled bridge at that point was swept out, carrying with it the cars with which it was weighted. The river continued to rise, and on the following day the current was so swift and strong that it became evident that it would be impossible to cross even in boats for several days. There were at the time large bodies of troops on the road, en route for Washington, and extraordinary meas- ures had to be determined upon in order to ensure their prompt transportation." President Garrett telegraphed him "I rely upon you to cross the troops." The situation as described was a trying one to Mr. Quincy. But in this instance, as in many others both before and since, his experience fur- nished him with a clever solution of the problem confronting him. This solution was nothing less than the improvisation of a suspension bridge across the raging stream. Telegraphing to Baltimore on the eleventh for wire cables, he received them by special train on the morning of the twelfth. While awaiting their arrival he had been successful in throwing a small line (with weight attached) across the wide opening. Lines steadily increasing in size "were passed and repassed until a five-inch cable was secured." Upon this the wire cables brought up on the train were taken over, "and at five P. M. of the same day, all the passengers from delayed trains, regiments of troops, mails, baggage and ammunition were transferred by means of this improvised suspension bridge." Soon after- wards the railroad bridge was re-built with great rapidity. Learning of the facts, President Garrett at once telegraphed to Mr. Quincy that the energy and zeal of the officers and men in his department, in so rapidly completing the bridge at Harper's
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Ferry, were highly appreciated. Mr. Smith replied | Monongahela Connecting Railroad. Mr. Quincy is on another occasion : "Your despatch just received, noted for his agreeable manner and the fidelity of his friendships. These qualities, coupled with so- cial talents of a pleasing character, have made him hosts of friends in the various places in which he has sojourned during his busy life. As has been said by another, " He has ever been found a devoted son, a generous and affectionate brother, and, in- decd, a worthy example in the discharge of all the duties pertaining to the various relations of life. It has been manifest, both by expression and deed, that his heart has never lost its warmth of affection for the home of his birth or the friends and relatives there abiding." He married in early manhood Miss Martha Ridgeley Smith, of Harford County, Md., a lineal descendant of the notable English family of Howards. Mr. Quincy's only child, a son, died No- vember, 1886, in his thirtieth year, and bore the hon- ored name of Benjamin Latrobe Quincy. and is the most triumphant bulletin of these times of disorder. I can imagine the grave assemblage at military headquarters to-day, and thank you for your share of it." The rapid manner in which he effected the restoration of the lines and bridges after calamities either of fire or flood, attracted general attention. Secretary Stanton, on hearing from his own lips in 1864, that he had been drafted in Baltimore to help fill up the Maryland contingent in the Union army, paid him the high compliment of exclaiming, "I would rather have you where you are than a regiment of soldiers." Mr. Garrett was accustomed to place every trust and confidence in him, and frequently selected him for the carry- ing out of tasks requiring unusual discretion and self-reliance. During and subsequent to the war, Mr. Quincy was brought into direct personal con- tact with many distinguished persons. He was selected to convey ex-President Buchanan from Washington to Baltimore on his retirement from office. He was also chosen to take charge of Presi- CHARLES F. McKENNA. dent Lincoln and party from Baltimore to Washing- ton, but the change of programme left him to take CHARLES F. McKENNA, a prominent and suc- cessful lawyer of Pittsburgh, was born in that city on the first day of October, 1845; his grandfather, the late Hugh McKenna, with his six sons, having emigrated from the County Tyrone, Ireland, and located in Pittsburgh as eary as the year 1830. After receiving the rudiments of education provided for by the public schools of his native ward, Mr. McKenna was apprenticed in his fourteenth year to learn the lithographic trade with William Schuch- man, of Pittsburgh. Whilst plying this vocation the late Civil War broke out; and, as in the case of many more youths of that period, the war changed his career. Before the completion of his sixteenth year Mr. McKenna enlisted as a private soldier in "E" Company, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Regi- ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, recruited in the city of Pittsburgh in response to President Lincoln's call for 300,000 more men for the Union armies. This regiment, within ten days after its muster-in at Pittsburgh, found itself assigned to active field duty with Gen. Humphreys, in the 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac. From Antietam to Appomattox, on all the weary marches, bitter defeats and retreats under Mcclellan, Burnside and Hooker, and the subsequent victorious campaigns under Meade and Grant, this regiment was ever present on duty. In its ranks, never losing a day off duty, with his Com- pany was private McKenna. On the disbandment of the survivors of the regiment at the end of the war, in Pittsburgh, Mr. McKenna entered the law Mrs. Lincoln, Colonel Ellsworth and others safely to Washington instead. During the great railroad riots in the West in 1877, Mr. Quincy, then General Manager of the company's lines in Ohio, rendered valuable services to that State and to the public at large by his skillful direction of railroad affairs. That they were instrumental in averting disaster to life and property is attested by Governor Young, who, in a communication to the Vice-President of the road, informing the latter of the termination of the troubles and return home of the State troops, frankly declared "that he was glad to state that owing to the splendid managerial ability, courage and good judgment of the manager (Mr. Quincy) of the Baltimore & Ohio lines in Ohio, there was no loss of life or property to record." In conclusion he added that " it afforded him pleasure to acknow- ledge the same, and to extend to that officer his thanks, and attach thereto the seal of the State." No sooner had Mr. Quincy severed his connection with the Baltimore & Ohio Company, than he be- came the recipient of offers from other railroad corporations. Early in the fall of 1878 he accepted the position of General Manager of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, and in February, 1880, he was called to the Presidency of the Pittsburgh, McKees- port and Youghiogheny Railroad and auxiliary lines. Mr. Quincy severed his connection with the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Company in July, 1887, to accept the office of General Manager of the
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