Columbia-Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....McKILLIP, Harvey A. unknown - living in 1899
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  HARVEY A. McKILLIP, a distinguished attorney-at-law and a highly respected
  citizen of Bloomsburg, was born in Martinsburg, Blair County, Pa., and is a son
  of Charles A. and Delilah (Skyles) McKillip.
  
    Our subject received his intellectual training in the common and high schools
  of his native town, after which he was engaged in clerking for some time. He
  then formed a partnership with his brother, and they were engaged as
  photographers in Bloomsburg. As our subject was of studious habits he put in his
  spare moments reading law. By hard and continuous study he mastered the
  profession and was admitted to the bar in 1891.
  
  He immediately after entered practice and was successful from the start. He is a
  fluent and ready speaker and has the happy faculty of being able to repeat a
  fact once learned, and his wonderful memory stands him in good stead in the
  practice of law, as he can readily recall the statutes of the law without
  reference to his books. His ability is well known and he has a large practice,
  mainly private counsel. He is a man of sound judgment, probity, broad
  intelligence and many sterling qualities, and has the respect and esteem of the
  community at large. As a citizen Mr. McKillip is interested in everything that
  promotes the good and welfare of the community. He is an attendant at the
  Presbyterian Church. Besides his law practice he is interested in some of the
  manufacturing industries of Bloomsburg and is a director in the Bloomsburg Brass
  & Copper Company.
  
    Mr. McKillip was united in matrimonial bonds to Mary C. McKelvey, a daughter
  of Dr. James Boyd McKelvey, who is one of the oldest and most prominent
  physicians and surgeons in Bloomsburg. Dr. James Boyd McKelvey was educated in
  the common schools of Bloomsburg and in Lenox Academy at Lenox, Mass. He also
  took a complete course in Williams College, from which institution he graduated
  in 1845. He then read medicine under the preceptorship of the late Dr. John
  Ramsay of Bloomsburg, Pa., and later attended the University of Pennsylvania,
  where he received a diploma as a physician and surgeon in 1849. He immediately
  after entered upon practice at Mifflinville, Pa., where he remained for some
  time, and then moved to Kentucky, Pa., later going to Arkadelphia. Ark. After
  engaging in practice there for one year, he returned to Bloomsburg, where he has
  since remained, and has had a wonderfully successful practice.
  
  December 25, 1851, he married Mary Elizabeth Abbett, a daughter of George and
  Mary (Craig) Abbett.
  
    Ardently American in his ideas, Mr. McKillip has taken a leading part in
  Republican politics and has been honored by his party in receiving the
  nomination for the State Assembly, and for two years has been chairman of the
  county committee.
  
    Mr. McKillip is very prominent in the Masonic fraternity in the state. He is a
  past officer of the State Grand Council, Grand Chapter, Grand Commandery, and A.
  C. of Constantine, an active member of the Grand Cross of the U. S., and is a
  Thirty-third Degree Mason. He is yet a young man, an untiring worker, and, from
  the records of the past, we do not hesitate to predict a brilliant future for him.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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