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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wcubed, post: 1297303, member: 12663&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; The pin belonged to my great aunt, who wore it often.&nbsp; Perhaps she got it as a young girl on one of her trips out west with her parents.&nbsp; Or she could have bought it herself as late as the 40&#039;s or 50&#039;s, according to the history of Fred Harvey above.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve actually heard of Fred Harvey, through a totally unrelated story from the other side of the family.&nbsp; Boring family history here, so read on at your own risk.</p><p><br /></p><p>My great grandfather rode for Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders, and was part of the charge up Kettle Hill, also known as the Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba.&nbsp; He became friends with another Rough Rider, a man who I recently discovered had started out in the Fred Harvey System.&nbsp; After the Spanish American War, this man became proprietor of many different hotels, including one in the home town of my great grandfather, who was a businessman.&nbsp; My great grandfather also shared a tent in Cuba with Frank Knox, who after the war, became Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt.&nbsp; Collectively after the war, the three of them were known as &quot;The Three Musketeers&quot;, according to local newspaper accounts of that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that&#039;s enough of that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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