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Show J. L. Harvey To Celebrate 84th Birthday Sunday In honor of the eighty-fourth birthday of Johnathan Lewis Harvey, Har-vey, open house will be held at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harold S. Walker, from 2 to 6 p. m. Sunday. Friends of Mr. Walker are invited o call during the day to greet him on his anniversary. A family dinner will follow in the evening, with Mr. Harvey as the guest of honor. Mr. Harvey is a son $f the late Lewis and Lucinda. Clark Harvey, one of the first seven families to settle Pleasant Grove in 1850. He was born in Iron county, on March 8, 1855, his parents having been sent to Southern Utah to colonize that section. When Johnathan Lewis was three weeks old, his parents were called back to Pleasant Grove by the illness and death of his grandfather. Mr. Harvey has lived in Pleasant Grove since that time. He has been active in both civic and church affairs here. He was one of the first school trustees when the town school district was formed. One of his treasured possessions is a memorandum book which gives an account of hiring teachers, payment of tuition, and securing of materials for the building of the schoolhouse. He later served six terms in the city council; and three terms as justice of the peace in the days of the open saloon, when the justice of the peace was one of the main officers offi-cers in the community. He served a term as mayor from 1914 to 1916. He was a member of the building committee for the stake tabernacle at Pleasant Grove. At the present time, he is an active High Priest, and has been commissioned to visit the sick and aged of the community regularly. He is still active in mind and body, attributing his good health to regular regu-lar exercise. He walks three miles a day, and is still "as straight as a boy". He has remarkable good health, not having had a cold or indisposition of any kind for four years. He married Helen Alexander of Provo, in the endowment house at Salt Lake City, on December 30, 1880. She passed away February 22, 1935. They were the parents of nine children, chil-dren, eight of whom are still living: Mrs. Effie Chipman of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Katherine McOmie of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Helen Keller-man Keller-man of Berkeley, California, William C. Harvey of San Jose, California, Mrs. Harold S. Walker and L. P. Harvey of Pleasant Grove, Mrs. Florence Tyler of Compton, California, Califor-nia, and Dr. Dean A. Harvey of Salt Lake City. |