About Chicago
Harvey Doolittle Colvin
22nd Mayor of Chicago
Frank, S.B. Chicago: Memorable Events and the Mayors We’ve Had. S.B. Frank, 1894. SPE CCW 41/14
Party
- People’s
Elected
- November 4, 1873
- Defeated Lester Legrand Bond (Union)
Inauguration
- December 1, 1873: Inaugural Address
Term of Office
- 1873–1875
Birth
- December 18, 1815
- Herkimer County, N.Y.
Personal
- Married Miss Nancy Churchill of Little Falls, N.Y., and together they had five children
- Worked for 38 years with the United States Express Company
- After he was injured in a cable car fall, he went to live with his son in Florida.
Death
- April 16, 1892
- Jacksonville, Fla.
Gravesite
- Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
Sources
- Andreas, A.T. History of Chicago: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. A.T. Andreas, 1884–86.
- Chicago Daily Tribune, April 17, 1892, p. 3.
- Chicago Daily Tribune, April 20, 1892, p. 6.
- Grossman, James R., Ann Durkin Keating and Janice L. Reiff, editors. Encyclopedia of Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2004.