The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-26
STEPHEN HARVEY
IS DEAD AFTER A
BRIEF ILLNESS
Passes Away in Mobile, Fol-
lowing an Operation
There on Monday.
VISITED FRIENDS IN
PENSACOLA SUNDAY
Attacked Suddenly and Hur-
ried to Mobile Where He
Was Operated Upon.


kilograms reaching the city yester-
day from Mobile announced the death
IN that city of Stephen J. Harvey,
president of the First National Bank
of Milton and well and favorably
known in Pensacola, where he resided
for number of years, being employ
ed at that time at the American Ma
tional Bank. Death followed an oper-
alton performed Monday in a hospital
in Mobile.
Mr.. Harvey went to Mobile sew
eral weeks ago for treatment, and
was supposed to have been greatly
benefited when he returned to Milton
recently. Saturday he came to PEN
sacola to spend Sunday with friends
and 10 was while here that he suffer-
ed a sudden attack, due Ia complies
tion Of liver and kidney trouble, and
he was hurried to- sfebi q, W here an
operative mas performed the speeeeGI
ing day. He died yesterday morning
at $50 o'clock.
Mr.. Harvey was a native of Cork,
Ireland, and is survived by a number
of relatives in that country, and one
brother, who resides in Arizona. He
came to this country when about six
teen years of age and was about for
ty-three years of age when he died.
Mr.. Harvey was vice-president for
Florida of the American Bankers As
sociation.
Instead Of story of realism, the
life-story of "Steve" Harvey, as he
was Familiarity and affectionately
known by host of friends which he
made during his residence in Pensa-
cola, would read like romance, if
written in detail. To say the least a
true story of his life, romantic, or
not, most forcibly illustrates the
possibilities of advancement and de-
velopment which lie in the pathway
of thousands of young Americans,
both native-born and alien, who will
but apply themselves and grasp the
opportunities which come to them
through life.
Coming to America from old Ire
land, in the early nineties, friendless
and practically penniless, "Steve"
Harvey, still young man on the
sunny side of middle life, died in
Mobile sanitarium yesterday while
undergoing serious surgical opera
ton, perhaps the best-beIoved, GER
tainly the most prominent and pro-
gressive citizen of the community
which he had made his home during
the past half dozen years; and the
niche which he filled in the business,
social and civic life of Milton, will be
hard to fill-indeed, it will remain I'M
filed for many years because there
were few "Steve" Harveys in the
world.
In his youth, Steve" Harvey had
prediction for the stage, and in
the interim between his landing in
his adopted America, and 1898, among
several other occupations which he
followed to gain a foothold in life, he
devoted some of his time to the dra-
matte art. This he dropped, however,
in 1898, to enlist in the u. S. navy
for service in the Spanish-American
war. Serving his first enlistment as
blue jacket, he re-enlisted and was
detailed as a paymaster's yoeman.
Completing this enlistment, he sought
and received an appointment as a
paymaster's clerk and as such was de-
tailed to duty at the Pensacola naval
station, where he remained until the
Pensacola yard was abandoned as an
actively operated naval base. He had
made many friends here and liked
Pensacola; hence his resignation from
the navy to take up his permanent
residence here.
Seeking and securing employment
in a most humble, and at the begin
ming, unremunerative capacity in the