Charlotte, Feb. 28—Rev. Harvey M. Pressly, a prominent minister of the Presbyterian Church, died at his home in this city this morning after an illness of 10 days. Mr. Pressly was born in Illinois September 29, 1845. His mother was a South Carolinian and his father a Kentuckian. He was educated at Monmouth College, Illinois, and studied for the ministry at Xenia Seminary, Ohio.
He had resided in Charlotte for 10 years or more, being the first pastor of the West Avenue Presbyterian Church, and afterward supply pastor. He was universally beloved in city and county. He was a man of wide learning and beloved throughout Mecklenburg County.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, March 1, 1926
The original paper said he was born in 1945, which couldn’t be true. I changed it to 1845, but I’m not sure that’s accurate either.
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