"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 390-392.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

WILLIAM WALTER HARVEY JR.:  The subject of this sketch was born on May 
9, 1910, at Chipley, Florida, and is the son of W. W. Sr.  and Ella 
Lockey Harvey.  Our brother was reared on a farm and remained there 
until he reached the age of sixteen.  Because of the fact that there 
was no compulsory education laws in effect at the time and also 
because of his mother's invalidity and the need of him on the farm, 
he attended school but eight months between the fourth and ninth 
grades.  He later finished high school and attended the University of 
Florida for four years graduating in 1931.  He has completed one full 
year and a portion of two other years in the Southern Baptist 
Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
	Our brother's conversion took place under the ministry of Rev. 
W. R. Quinton, a Kentucky evangelist holding a meeting under a brush 
arbor at Chipley, Florida.  He was baptized into the fellowship of 
the First Church at Chipley by the pastor, Rev. A. T. Camp.  This was 
in August, 1920.
	He was licensed by his home Church to preach the Gospel on 
August 25, 1928, and was ordained by the same Church on May 29, 1929, 
with Revs. G. T. McRae, E. E. Massey, L. M. Wood, Fred Hawk, and 
James Kent serving as the ordaining council.  Soon after his 
ordination he assumed the pastorate of the Pine Grove Church at 
Gainesville, Florida, serving there in 1929-1931.  He served the Crab 
Orchard Church, Crab Orchard, Kentucky, in 1932-1934; the Drakes 
Creek Church, Crab Orchard, Kentucky, in 1933-1935.  On October 6, 
1935, he became pastor of the Buena Vista Baptist Church, Owensboro, 
Kentucky, and is the present incombent [sic].
	In all of his pastorates our brother has been succesesful 
[sic].  Over one hundred additions to the membership resulted from 
his pastorate of the Pine Grove Church in Florida.  The Sunday School 
was enlarged at Crab Orchard Church and one hundred and thirteen 
additions resulted from his labors in that place.  The first B. T. U. 
was organized at Drakes Creek Church and over fifty members were 
added to the fellowship.  The Waynesburg Church went from one-fourth 
time to full time during his pastorate there.  Since coming to the 
Owensboro pastorate there have been about three hundred persons 
received into the membership of the Church, a new and imposing house 
of worship has been erected, and a bonded indebtedness of 
approximately $25,000.00 has been reduced to the point where it will 
probably be paid off within the next year or two.
	Besides serving in successful pastorates our brother has served 
as a member of the Sante Fe River Association Executive Board, the 
Daviess-McLean Executive Board, Daviess-McLean Association 
representative on the Kentucky State Board of Missions, and as 
President of the Baptist Student Union of Florida in 1929-1930, 2nd, 
1930-1931.  He was also the Associate State Secretary of the Baptist 
Student Union of Florida in 1930-1931.  In the year 1930 he served as 
Chairman of the All-Southern Baptist Student Conference, at Atlanta, 
Georgia.  He served as President of the Baptist Student Union in 
Kentucky in the year 1931-1932.  In 1934 he served as Moderator of 
the Lincoln County Baptist Association and held a similar position in 
the Daviess-McLean Association in the years 1940 and 1941.  For some 
time he has been a member of the Executive Board of the Kentucky 
Baptist Ministers' Aid Society.
	Our brother was united in marriage to Miss Lillie Burnside 
Carpenter, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.  J. G. Carpenter, of Crab 
Orchard, Kentucky, on September 14, 1932.  They have one daughter and 
one son, ages three and one respectively.  Our brother says: "She is 
the best preacher's wife on earth".  Mrs. Harvey has been a constant 
source of help to her husband during his ministry.
	Walter Harvey is a minister of unusual ability and his winsome 
personality has gained for him the admiration and affection of 
multitudes.  His work at the Buena Vista Baptist Church has been 
unusually blessed and in turn has been a blessing to the community in 
which he labors.  His contribution to the successes of the Daviess-
McLean Association have been noteworthy.

Harvey Lockey Quinton Camp McRae Massey Wood Hawk Kent Burnside Carpenter
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FL Louisville-Jefferson-KY Crab_Orchard-Lincoln_KY McLean-KY GA

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