Harvey Hersey (1830 - abt. 1919)

Born 22 Nov 1830 in Calais, Washington, Vermont, United States

Ancestors

Died about 10 Apr 1919 at about age 88 in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Harvey Hersey was born in Calais, Vermont in 1830, the son of Nathaniel Hersey and Asenath Slayton. A member of the Tufts University class of 1857, Harvey Hersey became a Universalist minister. During the Civil War, he served as a Chaplin with the 17th Maine Infantry. After the war, he held ministerial positions in Methuen, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine, Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Watertown, New York. He retired to Barre, Vermont where he served as mayor in 1900 - 1901. Harvey Hersey died in Burlington, Vermont in 1919. Reportedly he is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, New York.

Sources

• History of the Slayton Family, biographical and genealogical complied by Asa W. Slayton, Dean Printing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1898. (Copy on file at University of Wisconsin available on line at HathiTrust.org).
• Vermont in the Civil War: online site - vermontcivilwar.org
• 2017 Annual Report of the City of Barre

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC2N-S41 : 12 April 2016), Harvey Hersey in household of Nathaniel Hersey, Calais, Washington, Vermont, United States; citing family 843, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDYY-6BJ : 13 March 2018), Harvey Hersey, 1889.
• The Tufts College Graduate. A Quarterly Magazine. vi:3, Oct. 1908, pp. 157-158.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPFX-NWT : accessed 1 April 2019), Harvey Hersey in household of Harry L Ford, Barre Ward 2, Washington, Vermont, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 209, sheet A, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1617; FHL microfilm 1,375,630.
• "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQL-FM85 : 29 November 2018), Harvey Hersey, 10 Apr 1919; citing Death, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, various town clerks and records divisions, Vermont; FHL microfilm 005487740.