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Levi Charles Meyers Harby (September 21, 1793 - December 3, 1870) Historical Marker. 4115 Avenue K, Galveston, TX ( Directions) One of over 200 historical markers on the island, this marker is located at the final resting place of Levi Charles Meyers Harby. The marker was erected in 2014 by the Texas Historical Commission. Inscribed.
Brother of Isaac Harby; born in Georgetown, S. C., 1793; died at Galveston, Texas, 1870. At nineteen he became a midshipman in the United States navy, and during the War of 1812 was taken prisoner by the British, and was confined in Dartmoor Prison until the close of the war.
Dec 16, 2018 · Born in Georgetown, South Carolina, Levi Charles Meyers Harby was the son of Solomon Harby and Rebecca (Moses) Harby. During the War of 1812, Levi served in the U.S. Navy. He was commissioned as a midshipman and stationed at Charleston. After the capture of the British ship Providence, he was one of the officers placed aboard the prize ship.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Harby like this: HARBY , a village and a parish in Melton-Mowbray district, Leicester. The village stands on the Grantham canal, in the vale of Belvoir, near the boundary with Notts, 8½ miles N of Melton-Mowbray r. station; and has a post office‡ under Melton ...
Avraham Barkai's Branching Out (1994) and Naomi W. Cohen's Encounter with Emancipation: The German Jews in the United States, 1830-1914 (1984) describe continuities and discontinuities between the American and German Jewish experiences, while Leon Jick, The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820-1870 (1976) traces the development of American ...
The local Bryan newspaper says in April 1868 that Harvey and Ellen Wilcox were moving to Topeka, Kansas, where, in October, 1869, Harvey published "H.H. Wilcox's Real Estate Publisher" and in July 1870 he was described as a real estate agent and his wife a housekeeper.
During the fight the Neptune was sunk, and Harby, nearly seventy years of age, was the last off the boat. After the battle of Sabine Pass he was made commodore of ships there. At the end of the war he was in command of Galveston harbor. He resided in that city until his death on December 3, 1870.
