Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Durkee, Harvey 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    HARVEY DURKEE, a native of Burlington, Vt.; came to Kenosha in 1836; he
carried on the mercantile business for two or three years, beginning in 1839;
that year, at the land sale, he bought a farm, put in 100 acres of wheat, and
realized enough from the crop to pay for raising it and to fence in 160 acres;
when he first came there were only about one hundred people here; he early
engaged in the lumber business, which he continued fifteen years; he now owns a
dock, warehouse, etc , and deals largely in coal, hay, pig iron, and furnishes
supplies to the lumber regions. He married Martha E. Dana, in Cabot, Vt., her
native place, Sept. 3, 1839; they have six children-Catherine P. (now Mrs. F. H.
Head); Medora; Edward H. (in California); Henry R. (in Chicago); Charles
(associated with his rather), and Clara D. Mrs. Durkee is a member of the M. E.
Church.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)

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