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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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DR. DAVID GASTON HARVEY, a popular physician and surgeon of Moreland township, residing at Huntingdon Valley, is a native of Philadelphia. He was born in that city, September 16, 1873. He is a son of David and Sarah (Kelley) Harvey, both residents of that city and natives of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Harvey was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and in the Manual Training School. He read medicine in the office of Dr. James S. Shoemaker for one year. He next took a preparatory course before entering the Hahnemann Homeopathic Medical College, and after three years of study in that institution he graduated with honors, May 8, 1894. After his graduation he spent one year in the Children’s Homeopathic Hospital in Philadelphia. Since 1895 he has been continuously engaged in the general practice of medicine in Huntingdon Valley, Bethayres, and elsewhere in that vicinity. Dr. Harvey is a reliable physician, and is generally regarded as a successful and skillful practitioner. He is held in high esteem for his careful attention to his patients and his many excellent qualities. He is a member of the Alumni Association of Hahnemann College, and also of the Twenty-fourth Ward Medical Society of Philadelphia. He is also a member of Eagle Lodge, No. 222, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Huntingdon Valley. He is a progressive citizen, manifesting an active interest in whatever is calculated to promote the prosperity of his section of the county, and is deeply interested in public affairs. In politics he is a Republican, although too much engrossed in his practice of his profession to devote much time or attention to politics. In religious faith, Dr. Harvey is a Presbyterian, being a member of that church.
Dr. Harvey married, April 24, 1891, Jane T., daughter of ex-county treasurer Henry W., and Margaret (Thomson) Hallowell, well known Friends of that vicinity. The couple have two children, Elizabeth, born June I, 1902, and Henry W. Hallowell, born February 23, 1904. (For a full account of the Hallowell family, see the sketch of Henry W. Hallowell, elsewhere in this work.)
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