Family
Three years after opening his law practice, Harvey moved to Huntington, West Virginia and became law partners with his brother Thomas. Then in 1873 he moved forty miles to Gallipolis. Here he met Anna Halliday and they were married June 26, 1876. Later that year they moved to Cleveland. While they were living there they had two children: Mary Hope and Robert Halliday. Then in 1879 the moved to Chicago where they had a third child Thomas William. Finally in 1881 the Harveys moved back to Gallipolis.
Harvey was the campaign manager for William Jennings Bryan's 1896 Presidential run. Bryan lost 271 to 176 in the electoral college.
Robert had obtained a job as brakeman on the Frisco Railroad in 1903. He had been a law student in Chicago when Harvey bought Monte Ne. Robert received word that he was being appointed to the Railway Mail Service. Two days later he was on his last trip on a freight train as a brakeman when his train was wrecked and he was killed. He was interred in a concrete mausoleum in Monte Ne.
Harvey established the Ozark Trails Association to promote good roads, highway markers, and maps. Although his main interest was promoting travel to Monte Ne, in southwest Missouri and across Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, and on into New Mexico. Much of this route became the famed U.S. Route 66.
In his later years, as Monte Ne began to sink into debt and his health began deteriorating, he believed that human civilization was on the verge of collapse. He began making plans to build a giant obelisk, although he referred to it as 'The Pyramid'. It was serve as a time capsule for future humans to see what society had been like at its peak. Although some preliminary work on the Pyramid was done, Harvey became preoccupied with building an amphitheater which used up most of his funds and after the stock market crash of 1929 all work at Monte Ne ceased and the Pyramid was never constructed.
In 1932 Harvey formed the Liberty Party based on his financial theories.
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