MEMOIR OF HAYWARD AUGUSTUS HARVEY - 1711 - IN writing this memoir of our father we have received valued assistance from many of his personal and business friends, and to them we wish to express our sense of gratitude. Particularly are we indebted to Mr. Frederic H. Betts, Counsel Mr. Edmin Marshal1 Fox, European Agent Mr. Joseph H. Dickinson, Superintendent and the late William Allen Smith, Secretary of the Harvey Steel Company also to Mr. Cornelius Winant and to Mr. James C. Bayles. We also wish to express our appreciation of the loyalty to the memory and fame of our father, shown by all of those who have been connected with the steel company in any ca pacity. LIST OF PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Hayward A. Harvey . . Fronti piece FACING PAGE General Thomas William Harvey . . 12 Mrs. Melinda Hayward Harvey . . 16 Hayward A. . Harvey at about Twenty Years of Age 26 Hayward A. Harvey at Thirty-five Years of Age 32 Hayward A. Harvey at Forty-six Years of Age . 39 Harvey Steel Companys Works at Brills Station, New ark, N. J. 54 Interior of Harvey S tee1 Companys Works, showing Harvey Furnaces . 56 The Second Harvey Plate 64 Harvey Armor Plate, Tested near Bethlehem, Pa., July First English Plate, Tested November I, I 892 . 74 The Battle-ship Maine . 83 MEMOIR OF HAYWARD AUGUSTUS HARVEY THIS loving tribute to the memory of Hayward Augustus Harvey does not claim to rank as a biography, and can but sketch in outline the varied and useful activities which made up his life-work. A history of his life would be, in some sense, the history of a generation of progress in the mechanic arts. His versatile genius, though mainly directed to certain defi-. nite ends, in the pursuit of which he admittedly led the worlds development, found profitable fields of activity in so many directions that one who would seek to follow his footsteps would be bewildered by their many deviations from what seemed to be the path of his greatest usefulness. All that is attempted in this monograph is to present a few memorable facts of his life-work in approximate chronological order, in the assurance that they will be of interest to I IBAY WARD AUGUSTUS HARVEY . L C c his many friends, and perhaps useful to the future historian of the wonderful progress in the arts and sciences which has made the last quarter of the nineteenth century memorable, whatever the future may have in store for coming generations of men. However incompletely or imperfectly told, the story of the life of one whose genius has revolutionized more than one industry will be read with interest. To those nearest to him by the sacred ties of kindred, his lovable personality, and the charm of his exalted character as husband, father, and friend, obscure and render impossible of just and critical es timate his genius as a mechanic and his influence in the industrial development of his time. We loved him too well, and were too close to him to realize how great a man he was in his work. Hayward A. Harvey was a striking example of the heredity of genius. His father, General Thomas W. Harvey, was one of the most remarkable men of the first half of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in mechanical invention and in the application of original devices in automatic machinery. One who attempts to follow his work soon discovers that the father was embarrassed by the number and wide variety of the matters claiming his attention. For the son fewer original vacancies in the mechanic arts existed. He was able to focalize his work with somewhat sharper definition, though not as completely as the specialist of the present day is able to do...