Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin Pacific, an kama Harvey a yakin San Francisco
Ka yi haƙuri. Saboda kwarewarsa a masana'antar nitrate, an dauke shi aiki don gwamnatin Chile. A wannan lokacin ya auri Alida María Godefroy wanda ya fito daga dangin Franco-Peruvian mai daraja. A cikin 1881, lokacin da gwamnatin Chile ta keɓance masana'antar nitrate, Harvey ya zama manajan abokin tarayya ga kamfanin J. T. North da Harvey, wanda ya kafa tare da John Thomas North, wanda ake kira sau da yawa Nitrate King.