The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-11-15
A FRIEND TELLS OF
JAMES R. HARVEY

James Ramsey Harvey, who passed
over the great divide last Friday
morning, was one of the strong men
of this generation, and at his death
Humboldt county lost an influential
citizen. He came to Paradise Valley
in the spring of 1872, and from that
time the impress of his personality
has been apparent in all public affairs
of interest to the valley.
In every community there is some
one who, by common consent, is the
accepted leader in matters pertaining
to the public welfare, and such a man
was James Harvey. He was ever
foremost in every work of charity,
earnestly and sincerely interested in
the religious, social and material well
fare of Paradise Valley. and in all
gatherings where such were under
consideration his judgment was will
ingly deferred to; though at times
others questioned the wisdom of some
contemplated public improvement,
such as the erection of a more pre-
tentious church edifice or the building
of a new school house, and were in
doubt as to the ability of the COM
munity to meet its cost, Mr.. Harvey
never became discouraged He con-
tributed most literally of his means
and services, working so enthusias-
ticalIy that by his confidence and op-
timism all were aroused to a similar
pitch of earnestness and the object
was accomplished.
When lawless elements sought to
defy constituted authority, James r.
Harvey took a firm stand for law and
order, which by reason of the over
whelming personality of the man had
a tremendous effect, for he bore upon
his face the mystic sign which con-
stitutes the bond of union among hon
est and honorable men, and the entire
community looked upon him as a man
who was above doing mean, coward
ly or dishonest act, and one who
formed his own standards of right,
from which he would not swerve, no
matter what the allurement.
Strong physically and of magnifi-
cent manhood standing over six feet
in stature and of striking figure.
erect, positive in speech, and direct in
his choice of language, his views COM
manded respectful attention; upright
and frank in his dealings with people.
he commanded from all realization
of his manhood, and thus little by
little, day by day and year by year.
he built, as firm as our beautiful
mountains, a commanding position in
his locality, which with an honorod
and unsullied name and the friends
he had won he left as a heritage TO
his widow and children, who were
his love and devotion.
James R. Harvey believed in the
great and merciful Father in heaven,
the Creator of the boundless universe,
and through all his life his emotions
and conduct were ever guided by this
omnipotent influence; though in the
ways of the world and ia the language
of the world he may not have been
professed Christian; and when he
looked out on the great universe
around him, at the millions and mil
lions of stars that dot the armament
of heaven in the nighttime, out on
all the mysteries of nature and the
mysteries of life, and asked himself
the solution of the riddle, would an
swer, 81 don't know" Yet he lived
the life of true religion, which is love,
charity and kindness, and was ever
strong in his devotion to and love for
his fellow-man; he always raised his
voice in defense of the poor, in de-
Tense of the weak, in defense of JUS
tice and of the liberties of mankind
When the light of Friday morning
broke over the hills about Paradise
and brought the last earthly night of
James R. aHryey to close. while the
sun of the morning came with life in
its beams to circles of gaiety and
pleasure, it also Illuminated the home
of his heartbroken family, and in all
of its kindly visitations of human
abodes it probably lit up no lonelier.
drearier hearthstone than that around
which once shone the kindly face of
that stalwart man whose form lay
on his bed of DEATH and as the lib
Grated spirit aseended to the great
fountain of life on high it bore with
it to the preesnce of a righteous God
a message. from neighbors and friends,
of good will in one unbroken strain of
commentator and eulogy.
A FRIEND
Card of Thanks