[1] Harvey Medical College was one of over 20 medical schools that opened in Chicago between 1890 and 1910, but unlike many of these it offered a real education and was not just a diploma mill.
Frances Dickinson served for periods as president, secretary and chair of ophthalmology at the college.
[2] African-American physician Isabella Garnett obtained a premedical certificate from Harvey Medical College in 1899.
[3] Australian dentist Victor Ratten obtained a medical diploma from Harvey Medical College in 1907 and subsequently practised as a surgeon in Australia.
His medical qualifications were the subject of a Tasmanian royal commission in 1918 following the objections of the local medical profession to his appointment as superintendent of Hobart General Hospital.