Harvey B. Hurd

Harvey Bostwick Hurd (February 14, 1828 – January 20, 1906) was a prominent Chicago lawyer, abolitionist, and social reformer.

[2] Hurd began practicing law in 1848, initially forming a partnership with Carlos Haven, then with Henry Snapp, and then, from 1850 to 1854, with Andrew J.

With Brown, Hurd was involved in several large real estate transactions in Evanston, Illinois.

When the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise, Hurd traveled to Buffalo, New York for the founding of a national committee to protect the rights of northern settlers in the Kansas Territory.

In the wake of the Pottawatomie Massacre, John Brown was forced to flee the Kansas Territory.

His partnership with Booth was dissolved in 1868, at which time Hurd ceased the active practice of law.

When the other two commissioners were indisposed, Hurd completed this task on his own, presented his compiled statutes to the Illinois General Assembly in 1874.

Hurd was active in the Illinois State Bar Association, serving as chairman of its Committee on Law Reform.