Found this wonderful “new” quote about Fred Harvey as a travel companion–years before he opened his first trackside eating house in 1875–in a search through the Library of Congress’s wonderful “Chronicling America” newspaper database. It’s from Dan Anthony, the editor of the Leavenworth Times–who is best-known because his sister was Susan B. Anthony.

From this, it’s not surprising that Fred later became America’s travel companion.

“I have know Mr. Harvey many years as a railroad man, and as a newspaper man, but Fred is at his best as a travelling companion. He knows the best trains, the best cars, the best conductors, the best berths, the best eating houses and the best hotels, and with him, to know is to want a friend to share the pleasure with him.”

Leavenworth Times, October 13, 1870

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