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Harvey was born on August 16, 1851 in Buffalo, West Virginia, United States. He was the fourth son and fifth of six children of Robert Trigg Harvey, a farmer, and Anna Maria (Hope) Harvey.
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Facsimile Reprint of the 1894 Editon of this time-valued book. With all that's going wrong in today's financial system, perhaps the author's warnings shoul have been heeded.
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Harvey was born on August 16, 1851 in Buffalo, West Virginia, United States. He was the fourth son and fifth of six children of Robert Trigg Harvey, a farmer, and Anna Maria (Hope) Harvey.
After country schooling, two years at the Buffalo Academy, and three months at Marshall College, Harvey started reading law, meanwhile teaching school occasionally.
At nineteen Harvey was admitted to the bar of Cabell County, West Virginia, beginning practice at Barboursville in the fall of 1870 and continuing it at Huntington (1874-1875) in association with a brother, Thomas H. Harvey.
Harvey shifted his law practice to Cleveland (1876), Chicago (1879), and Gallipolis (1881), then turned his attention in 1884 to real estate promotions and other property prospects in Colorado, Utah, and California, particularly silver mining. His mining interests apparently were concentrated in Colorado's Red Mountain district about eight miles above Ouray, where for three years he superintended the "Silver Bell, " then reputedly the second largest silver producer in that area.
In 1893 hard times turned Harvey back to Chicago. There he devoted himself to proselyting for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 in relation to gold. Establishing the Coin Publishing Company, he published a short-lived weekly, Coin, and launched "Coin's Financial Series, " consisting of small, paper-bound books issued quarterly at a dollar a year and twenty-five cents a copy. On Number Three in this series, Coin's Financial School (1894), rests Harvey's fame. It portrayed "Coin, a young financier living in Chicago, " as conducting there in 1894 a six-day "school of finance" attended by many of the notable figures of the day - journalists, economists, bank presidents, university professors, and United States Senators - and their sons, most of whom Coin supposedly converted to his doctrine that free silver at 16 to 1 would restore prosperity. Many eager readers accepted the easily understood, homely arguments; they even assumed that the fictional lectures had actually occurred, and they delighted in the crude but effective drawings by H. L. Godall. The 168-page book sold, as variously estimated, from 650, 000 to over 1, 000, 000 copies; it served as a powerful crystallizing agency in the free-silver movement.
More effective as a writer than as a speaker, Harvey published numerous tracts by himself and others, in the years 1894-1896, including his debates with Professor J. Laurence Laughlin of the University of Chicago and Roswell G. Horr, associate editor of the New York Tribune. The attempts of various "goldbug" leaders and newspapers to rebut "Coin" frequently served only to bring him more publicity and popularity.
Harvey associated with the conservative, silver wing of the Chicago Populists, opposing the socialist element in state and city labor-Populist conventions at Springfield, Illinois, and Chicago. With the prohibitionist Howard S. Taylor, he organized in 1895 a secret free-silver group that excluded wage-earners. After the defeat of William Jennings Bryan and free silver in 1896, Harvey attacked a sequence of ills which he believed destructive of civilization; he urged a shift to non-metallic currency and elimination of trusts, imperialism, rent, interest ("usury"), profit, and taxes. His last brochure was The Book (1930), designed to be preserved with other items in an obelisk, there to await deciphering by a future civilization curious about the downfall of Harvey's era.
Construction of the obelisk was begun by Harvey at Monte Ne in the Ozarks in northwestern Arkansas, whither he had repaired in 1900 to attempt establishment of an elaborate resort area, and where he organized movements to improve highways, schools, and political practices.
Harvey's final protest was a 1935 blast at Roosevelt's silver- and gold-buying techniques. In February 1936 peritonitis following intestinal influenza ended his writing.
When death managed to overtake him, he was buried fittingly near the site of his unfinished obelisk.
William Hope Harvey is best remembered as a prominent politician and public intellectual advancing the idea of monetary bimetallism. His enthusiasm for the use of silver as legal tender was later incorporated into the platforms of both the People's Party and the Democratic Party in the early 1890s. Harvey's home in Huntington, West Virginia, commonly known as the Coin Harvey House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Harvey generally avoided politics after moving to Arkansas, but he continued to write on political and economic issues.
Later he became the founder of the short-lived Liberty Party.
Harvey was a colorful figure, erect, spare, with penetrating blue eyes.
Quotes from others about the person
An obituary in the Washington Post said he "claimed two successes in his life although it was his heroic 'failures' that made him nationally famous. "
In 1876 Harvey married Anna R. Halliday of Gallipolis. They had four children - Mary Hope, Robert Halliday, Thomas William, and Annette. This union ended in divorce in 1929, after which he married his long-time secretary, Mrs. May Ellston Leake.
