To quote J. Stewart Harvey, Jr.

"As a great-grandson of Fred Harvey, I am the oldest direct descendant, the last Harvey to be born in the Kansas City area and one of the last to have worked for the Fred Harvey Company.

Speaking personally as well as for the members of the Harvey family, we are very pleased to see the establishment of The National Fred Harvey Museum. We are doubly pleased to see Fred Harvey's house in Leavenworth as the museum's home as that is where he was happiest, where his luck changed to prosperity, where he thought his new country was at its best, and where he and his immediate family are buried.

The heart and soul of our family continue to reside in Leavenworth and we call on all others to recognize the Leavenworth-located National Fred Harvey Museum as the only one to be formally recognized by the Harvey family."