Melanchthon U. Harvey

Melanchthon Urson Harvey was the son of William Urson Harvey and Charlotte P. Woodbury. The oldest of two, his mother died when he was only 2 ½ years old and his sister died a few years later. His father remarried and he had two half-sisters Delia and Vesta Harvey. After moving several times during his childhood, his family eventually settled in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Melancthon married Clarissa Ann Miller, one minute after midnight on January 01, 1877, in Shelby County, Indiana. The couple soon moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where they made their home for over 30 years and where Melanchthon was a professor of Mathematics and Science. It was also the where their two children were born, Maude Alma Harvey (b. July 7, 1887) and Mortimer Urson Harvey (b. Feb. 7, 1890). The family moved to Chicago for a few years, then removed to Elkhart, Indiana in 1921, where Melanchthon died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Preston Hogencamp.