The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-05-12
NEW GOVERNOR
IS WELL KNOWN
IN ABBEVILLE-WILSON HAIR
vEY RECEIVING GONGRATU-
LATIONS-SIXTH LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR TO SUCCEED Gov
ERNORSHIP.


graduating Governor Cooper yester-
day upon his appointment to the
Federal Farm Loan board, the
states next governor, Wilson G.
Harvey, also was receiving congrat-
ulations from this section upon his
prospective elevation to the chief
executives chair.
Mr.. Harvey has served we'll as
Il Acknowledgements, according to
friends and already had announced
his intention to offer for reelection
. to that office. Whether or not his
promotion to the governorship will
6 affect these plans is not known, and
there is some speculation as to the
/. possibility Of his entering the guber-
material race. Unless there is an un-
expected hitch in the United States
senate, he will succeed Governor
Cooper, within a few days,
Lieutenant-G Governor Harvey is a
banker and has been for rs years
identified with the management of
I the Enterprise Bank of Charleston
and will be the first Charleston man
!. to hold that office in 81 years, the
last chief executive from the City
by the Sea having been Andrew G..
Magrath, 1S64-65.
Mr.. Harvey is son of Wilson G.
and Cornelia Julia EIbridge Harvey,
His father was native Of Charles
ton, as was his grandfather, James
+. Harvey. The, Harweys came to
South, Carolina prior to the War OF
the Revolution from Bermuda. Mr..
Harvey's great grand father was a
member of the Continental forces
fighting for independence in that
! war. His father was a Confederate
soldier. &<
He was educated in the grammar
and high schools Of Charleston. At
the age of Is he began his business
4 career as an employee Of the News
4 and Courier. At the age Of 81 he
was manager of the World and
Budget. Then he became Charleston
manager of the Bradstreet COM
pany. He organized the Enterprise
{ Bank in 1894, was elected its first
cashier and since 1904 has been it's
president ... y.
He belongs to many organizations.
: He has served as president of the S.
C. Society of the Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution. He was adjutant
general Of the Fourth Brigade, S. G..
Volunteers, for seFeral years and
major Of the Second Battalion. He
has been grand chancellor of the
Knights of Pythias of this State and
for 22 years has been elected by un-
animous vote grand master Of the
exchequer. He has also served as
grand master of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, past senior
consul of the Woodmen Of the
World. and is a past master of Solo
mons Lodge No. l, Ancient Free
Masons.
For eight years he was an alder
man of Charleston and in 1910 was
mayor pro tenn. He has been presi-
dent Of the Charleston Chamber of
n Commerce and is chairman of the
>country's sanitary commission. He
is a former president of the Char
lesion Automobile club, is secretary
and one Of the board of managers of
+. the Charleston Country club, a MEM
iber of the Carolina Yacht club and
other social organizations anu lS q
deacon in the First Presbyterian
church in Charleston.
In 1894 he married Miss Mary
Franklin Butler of Georgia. They
had three children. In 1914 he mar
ried Miss Margaret Waring.
In 1920 Mr.. Harvey was elected
lieutenant-governor/
During the life time of Senator
B. R. Tillman, Mr.. Harvey was one
of his principal supporters in Char
lesion.