Henry Harvey Macartney was a son of Joseph and Eliza (Brownlee) Macartney of lot 10, concession 7, Marlborough township. Margaret Jane (Nettie) Brownlee was the daughter of James and Christiana (McDiarmid) Brownlee of lot 8, concession 6, Marlborough township. Harvey was the postmaster at Malakoff from 1906 until it closed in 1918. He also operated the local store. Thereafter Harvey and Nettie lived in Ottawa. Soon after her mother's death in 1912, Ella May Code, a sister of Lulu Pearl Code who married Delmer ('Dellie') Brownlee, became Harvey and Nettie's foster child.