Harvey, C. M.

Funeral services for C. M. Harvey, 83 year old former Miami lead and zinc mine operator who died Friday night at El Paso Texas, will be held Monday afternoon at El Paso. Death came in Providence Memorial hospital after a heart attack. Mr. Harvey, father of C. M. Harvey, Jr., widely known Miami businessman, was chairman of the board of the El Paso National bank, which he helped to organize, at the time of his death. He had a wide range of investments in Texas and owned several cattle ranches and cotton farms in New Mexico. In the Tri-State mining field, Mr. Harvey was best remembered as an organizer and one of four principal owners in the old Commerce Mining and Royalty Company. This firm struck rich lead and zinc ore deposits in the now Commerce field in 1905. In 1905 it was still Indian Territory. Although he moved to El Paso from Miami in 1910, Mr. Harvey retained an interest in the mining company from the time of its organization in about 1900 until its sale in December, 1939. He served as vice-president. The old C. M. & R Company, and its vast holdings were sold to the Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Company for approximately $10 million. The banker was born at Trezvant Tennessee, on Jul 21, 1869. He came to Indian Territory in 1895 and his first business enterprise in Miami, then a small trading post, was the management of a grocery store. Later he disposed of this interest and became associated with the late M. L. Pierce in the Pierce-Harvey Buggy Company. This business was located where Kemph's shop, on Main Street, is now situated. A few years later he and a mining associate, also an original member of the C. M. & R. Company, the late George L. Coleman, Sr., formed the Coleman-Harvey Buggy Company. Three main associates of the former store owner in the C. M. & R. are all dead. They were J. F. Robinson, Al Coleman and Mr. Harvey's former store partner. The mining company made a series of big ore strikes, including one development which became the rich Turkey Fat Mine near Commerce, then known as Hattenville Oklahoma. This occurred in 1907. Mr. Harvey left for El Paso because of his wife's health. He later rose to presidency of the El Paso's Security Bank and Trust Co. from 1915 to 1922 in that capacity then headed the old Border National bank until 1924. After the El Paso National was organized, he served as president until 1944 when he was elevated to chairman of the board. Mr. Harvey was an inveterate sportsman. He enjoyed big game hunting, for deer, bear and wild turkey, in south Texas, New Mexico and Old Mexico. He enjoyed fishing, too, and was an occasional visitor to the famous angling resort at Guamas, Mexico. While in the Miami area, the business executive was known as an expert quail hunter. Through the years, the banker returned to Miami on occasion to visit his son and old acquaintances. He was first married to Bessie Parker of Paris Arkansas, on Sep 30, 1896. A number of years after her death, he married Maude Irene Phillips of Bloomfield Missouri, who survives him. This marriage occurred on Jan 18, 1924. Mr. Harvey was a member of the Trinity Methodist church at El Paso. He was a 33rd degree Mason, highest honor accorded in the fraternal organization. He belonged to El Paso lodge No. 130. Survivors besides the wife and the son living in Miami and two sons living in El Paso, Paul Harvey and Phil Harvey, six grandchildren, Paul Harvey, Jr., Katharine Harvey Mattox and Phillip Harvey, Jr., all of El Paso; Frances Harvey Macintyre of Aurora Illinois, and Florence Harvey Garrett of Columbia Missouri, and Charles M. Harvey, III, of Miami, and five great-grandchildren, William Paul Harvey and Charles W. Mattox, Jr., both of El Paso; Frances MacIntyre and John MacIntyre, both of Aurora Illinois, and Steven Russell Garrett of Columbia Missouri For the burial services at El Paso the family is requesting donations to the Southwestern Children home in lieu of flowers. Note: Some of the dates, names of towns and when they became towns, should be checked out for accuracy, and many times the article said Oklahoma. Indian Territory did not become Oklahoma until the fall of 1907. Minor details, but the reader should be aware.