Harvey, Robert

Born: 1839-XX-XX Scotland, United Kingdom

Died: 1859-09-09 Springfield, Illinois

Robert Harvey was a Republican and a telegraph operator. He served as secretary of the Mattoon Republican Club soon after the club's creation, in 1858. In early 1859, he moved from Mattoon, Illinois, to Springfield to work as an agent in the Springfield Telegraph Office. He died of dysentery just a few days before he was to be married.

Robert Harvey to Abraham Lincoln; Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 3 March 1859, 3:1; 12 September 1859, 2:4; 3:1.