- Louis P. Harvey
Louis Powell Harvey (
July 22 ,1820 ndashApril 19 ,1862 ) was an American politician and the seventhgovernor ofWisconsin .Harvey was born in
East Haddam, Connecticut , later moving with his family toOhio . He attendedWestern Reserve College and Preparatory School and worked as a teacher for a time, and eventually moved toKenosha, Wisconsin , then named Southport, where he founded an academy. In Southport he associated with the Whig Party and edited a Whig newspaper, the "Southport American" (1843-1846).In 1847, Harvey married Cordelia Perrine and they moved to
Clinton, Wisconsin inRock County, Wisconsin , then the nearby hamlet ofShopiere, Wisconsin . He helped organize the Republican Party, and was a Republican member of theWisconsin State Senate from 1854 to 1858,Wisconsin Secretary of State from 1860 to 1862, and finally Wisconsin's governor in 1862.In April 1862, having served only a few months as governor, Harvey organized an expedition to bring medical supplies to Wisconsin troops, wounded in the
Battle of Shiloh , who were being cared for in hospital boats on the Mississippi andTennessee River s. Harvey visited and cheered troops atCairo, Illinois ,Mound City, Illinois andPaducah, Kentucky . Close to Shiloh, he stopped overnight near Savannah,Tennessee . Late that evening, while trying to step from a tethered boat to a moving steamboat headed back north (a common but dangerous practice), Harvey fell into the Tennessee River and drowned, despite the strenuous rescue efforts of members of his party.His body was found 14 days later, 65 miles downstream; his remains lay in state in the
Wisconsin State Capitol , and he was buried inForest Hill Cemetery , in Madison. His wife Cordelia became a leading war nurse, honored with the rank of Colonel byAbraham Lincoln . [ [http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER0108.html WER: Mrs. Cordelia A. P. Harvey ] ] [ [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/highlights/archives/2008/04/april_19_1862_g.asp Highlights at the Wisconsin Historical Society ] ] She subsequently established veterans hospitals in Wisconsin, away from the war front, and a soldiers' orphans home. [ [http://www.aahn.org/gravesites/harvey.html Gravesite of Cordelia Harvey ] ]Lieutenant Governor
Edward Salomon succeeded Harvey.External links
* [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/searchResults.asp?adv=yes&Ln=Harvey&fn=Louis&q=Gov%2E Governor Louis Harvey, Wisconsin State Historical Society]
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* [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1394&term_type_id=1&term_type_text=People&letter=H Capsule biography] -
Wisconsin Historical Society
* [http://www.secondwi.com/wisconsinpeople/harvey.htm Louis Powell Harvey bio] - Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry website, from "Military History of Wisconsin" (1866)
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