Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. Cass County. HARVEY SPRINGER, farmer; P. O. Virginia; was born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Penn., March 9, 1808; son of Zadok and Eleanor (McIntyre) Springer; he, a farmer, born in Pennsylvania in 1775, and dying in 1850; she, born in l777, and dying in 1855. They were the parents of ten children. Our subject, in addition to the common schools, attended the Academy in Uniontown, Pa., and afterward worked in Iron Works in Fayette County, Pa., but has spent most of his life in farming. In 1833, in Fayette County, he married Miss Fanny Gray, born in Pennsylvania in 1810, daughter of John and Hannah Gray, and eight children have been the result of the union: Thaddeus, Morgan, George, Eveline, Albina J., Emma, Ellen, and Alice. He is a Democrat. Springer McIntyre Gray = Fayette-PA