Harvey B. Hurd

Harvey Bostwick Hurd (February 14, 1828 – January 20, 1906) was a prominent Chicago lawyer, abolitionist, and social reformer.

Early life and education Hurd was born in Huntington, Connecticut on February 14, 1828. He grew up on his family's farm. On May 1, 1842, the fourteen-year-old Hurd left his parents' farm and journeyed to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he became an apprentice at the Bridgeport Standard, a Whig newspaper. In 1844, he was one of a group of ten young men who immigrated to Illinois. He spent a year studying at Jubilee College in Peoria County, Illinois. He then moved to Chicago, finding a job at the Evening-Standard newspaper and later the Prairie Farmer. In 1847, he read law with Chicago lawyer Calvin DeWolf. He was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1848.

Hurd died at his home in Chicago on January 20, 1906, and was buried at Rosehill Cemetery.