Born in County Tyrone, Ireland.
Parents Robert Ray and Sarah Armstrong owned a dry goods business and both died Wheeling, WV.
Harvey first visited Burlington selling imported French millstones. He married and took his wife to Burlington about 1842. He became a prominent businessman, manufacturing agricultural equipment, raising cattle, and later stamping ore and investing in real estate in Montana.
According to one account in the Burlington Hawkeye, Nov 23, 1924, the ship he was sailing with his parents from Ireland in was wrecked off Labrador in May 1817. The same account details a book and film based on his cattle venture, which started with a drive from Texas to Iowa, chronicled in the journal of his partner George Duffield.
www.rawhide.ws/DuffieldDiary.pdf
Parents Robert Ray and Sarah Armstrong owned a dry goods business and both died Wheeling, WV.
Harvey first visited Burlington selling imported French millstones. He married and took his wife to Burlington about 1842. He became a prominent businessman, manufacturing agricultural equipment, raising cattle, and later stamping ore and investing in real estate in Montana.
According to one account in the Burlington Hawkeye, Nov 23, 1924, the ship he was sailing with his parents from Ireland in was wrecked off Labrador in May 1817. The same account details a book and film based on his cattle venture, which started with a drive from Texas to Iowa, chronicled in the journal of his partner George Duffield.
www.rawhide.ws/DuffieldDiary.pdf
Born in County Tyrone, Ireland.
Parents Robert Ray and Sarah Armstrong owned a dry goods business and both died Wheeling, WV.
Harvey first visited Burlington selling imported French millstones. He married and took his wife to Burlington about 1842. He became a prominent businessman, manufacturing agricultural equipment, raising cattle, and later stamping ore and investing in real estate in Montana.
According to one account in the Burlington Hawkeye, Nov 23, 1924, the ship he was sailing with his parents from Ireland in was wrecked off Labrador in May 1817. The same account details a book and film based on his cattle venture, which started with a drive from Texas to Iowa, chronicled in the journal of his partner George Duffield.
www.rawhide.ws/DuffieldDiary.pdf
Parents Robert Ray and Sarah Armstrong owned a dry goods business and both died Wheeling, WV.
Harvey first visited Burlington selling imported French millstones. He married and took his wife to Burlington about 1842. He became a prominent businessman, manufacturing agricultural equipment, raising cattle, and later stamping ore and investing in real estate in Montana.
According to one account in the Burlington Hawkeye, Nov 23, 1924, the ship he was sailing with his parents from Ireland in was wrecked off Labrador in May 1817. The same account details a book and film based on his cattle venture, which started with a drive from Texas to Iowa, chronicled in the journal of his partner George Duffield.
www.rawhide.ws/DuffieldDiary.pdf
