Joshua G. Harvey, who owned a salt company in Baltimore, died March 11 of cancer at a hospital in Naples, Fla. He was 83.

Harvey, who also had a home in Baltimore, retired in 1970 as owner of the Harvey Salt Co.

The Baltimore native was a 1929 graduate of the McDonogh School.

He is survived by his wife, the former Marian Zouck; two daughters, Eleanor H. Egerton and Marian H. Edelen, both of Ruxton; a sister, Anne H. Trimble of Hagerstown; a brother, Nicholas D. N. Harvey of Delray, Fla.; nine grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

Services were to be held at 4 p.m. today at St. John's Episcopal Church, 3738 Butler Road, Glyndon.