Source: "Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County, Pennsyl-
vania," Winfield Scott Garner and Samuel T. Wiley, Gresham Publishing Co., 
New York City, NY, 1894, pp. 315-6.  Transcribed by John Morris.

"ORLANDO HARVEY, a leading lawyer of the Chester bar and for more than 
twenty years city solicitor, is a son of Dr. Elwood and Josephine L. (Youle) 
Harvey, and a native of Chadd's Ford, Delaware county, Pennsylvania where he 
was born December 9, 1845.  The Harveys trace their trans-atlantic origin to 
England, from whence its earliest American progenitor came to this country 
about the time of William Penn, and settled in what is now Delaware, but was 
then a part of Chester county, where representatives of the family have ever 
since resided.  Eli Harvey, paternal grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, was born in this county, and after attaining manhood engaged in 
farming in Birmingham township, where he became quite prosperous and lived 
until his death.  He married and reared a family of children, one of the 
sons being Elwood Harvey (father), who was born on the old homestead in 
Birmingham township in 1810 (sic).  

He acquired a good English education in the common schools, and afterward 
studied medicine and was engaged in the duties of his profession nearly all 
his life.  For thirty years prior to his death he was continuously engaged 
in successful practice in the city of Chester, and his name became a 
familiar household word throughout this entire section.  He died at his home 
in Chester in March, 1889, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, and greatly 
revered by his neighbors and friends.  Dr. Harvey was always a warm friend 
of popular education, taking an enthusiastic interest in the school affairs 
of the city and serving as school director here for many years.  So well 
known and recognized was his earnest labor on behalf of increased educa-
tional facilities for the oncoming generation that one of the public schools 
was named in his honor, and is now known as the Harvey school.  In politics 
Dr. Harvey was first a whig but became a republican upon the organization of 
that party, and ever afterward gave it a cordial support.  He married 
Josephine L. Youle.  She was of Scotch ancestry, a native of New Jersey, 
and died in 1890.

Orlando Harvey came to the city of Chester at the age of fifteen, and has 
resided here ever since.  He was educated in the public schools and at the 
Polytechnic institute in the city of Philadelphia.  After leaving school 
he read law with Hon. John M. Broomall and Hon. William Ward, and was 
regularly admitted to practice at the bar of this county in November, 1868.  
Soon afterward he opened a law office in the city of Chester and has been 
continuously engaged in a successful general practice here ever since.  
Possessing many of the qualities that distinguish the able lawyer, and 
painstaking and careful in the preparation of all cases he undertakes, he 
has been remarkably successful and now finds himself with a large and 
lucrative clientage.

In 1871 Mr. Harvey was united by marriage to Kate B. Ulrich, youngest 
daughter of Squire Samuel Ulrich, of the city of Chester.  To Mr. and Mrs. 
Harvey have been born four sons: Albert, Ward, Youle, and Walter, all 
living at home with their parents.

In his political affiliations Mr. Harvey has always been an ardent repub-
lican, deeply grounded in the basic principles of his party and earnest 
and eloquent in advocating them.  For a number of years he has been a 
recognized local leader in the Republican party of Chester, and in 1872 
was elected on that ticket to the office of city solicitor.  So efficient 
and satisfactory has been his administration of the duties of his office 
that he has been regularly re-elected to that position ever since.  In 
religious belief he is an Episcoplaian, and regularly attends and con-
tributes to the support of that church, of which his wife is a member.  
Mr. Harvey is quite prominent in the secret society circles of this city, 
being a member of L. H. Scott Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Chester 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Chester Commandery, Knights Templar; Tuscarora 
Tribe, Improved Order Red Men; and is also a member of the Royal Arcanum 
and treasurer of Sharpless Council of the American Legion of Honor."