HENRY G. HARVEY, farmer, P. O. East Springfield, was born Dec. 4, 1839, in Springfield Township, Erie Co., Penn., the only child of Lorenzo D. and Lucia M. Harvey, natives of N. Y. State and Vt. respectively. Lorenzo, a farmer, came to this county about 1830, and departed this life in 1872. His widow still lives on the old homestead in this township. Our subject, during the late war, enlisted Aug. 26, 1862, in the 145th P. V. I., serving in the 2d Corps under Gen. Hancock, Army of the Potomac. He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness and Cold Harbor, where he was wounded in the leg, which had to be amputated. He was promoted gradually from private to Captain, and was honorably discharged, Dec. 19, 1864, on account of his wounds. From 1866 to 1871, he served as Register and Recorder of Erie Co. In 1867, Mr. Harvey was united in marriage with Sarah A. DeWolf, a native of this township, and daughter of Erastus DeWolf, one of the early settlers of Erie. Our subject owns 100 acres of well-improved land, a part of which was his father's old homestead. He is a representative man of his section, a member of the G. A. R.; was a good soldier, and is a first-class citizen. Politically, he is a Republican.

Source:
Samuel P. Bates, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, (Warner, Beers & Co.: Chicago, 1884), Part VI, Township Biographies, Springfield Township, p. 156.

Captain Henry G. Harvey
Company E 145 Pa. Vol. Inf.

Erie Pa. Dispatch March 30, 1917
Captain H. G. Harvey, civil war veteran and G. A. R. member died at his home in North Girard yesterday. Captain Harvey fought at the battle of Cold Harbor with the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Pennsylvania infantry, where he received a wound which caused the loss of a leg. He was seventy-seven years old.

buried Section F Lot 7 Grave 2