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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  MELVIN WHITNEY HOVEY, proprietor of the Rushmore dray line, has been a

resident of the county since he was seven years old. He was born in Belvidere,

Ill., June 19, 1869, the son of Austin Hovey and Aurelia (Whitney) Hovey. The

father, a native of Illinois, was born May 16, 1833; died Sept. 2, 1903. His

mother is a native of Maine, having been born March 17, 1841, and now resides

near Upton, N. M.



  With the exception of one year, which was spent with his mother in Maine,

Melvin resided in Belvidere until 1877. Then he came with his parents to Nobles

county in the fall of that year and located in Worthington. The next spring the

family moved out to Summit Lake township, where the head of the family had taken

a homestead at a distance of twelve miles northwest of Worthington. From that

date the family resided on the farm and in Worthington, dividing the time

between the two places. Melvin was educated in the Worthington schools, and

after his school days spent the greater part of his time working on the farm.



  In 1901 he moved to Reading, ran a livery barn there one year, and then sold

out. The next year and one-half was spent, in farming on a rented farm two miles

north of Rushmore. He then moved to the village, purchased the Reese livery barn

on Nov. 7, 1904, and conducted that business until 1908, when he sold out, and

he is now proprietor of the Rushmore dray line.



  Mr. Hovey was married August 20, 1902, to Miss Hanna Grace McChord, daughter

of A. B. McChord, one of the pioneer settlers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Hovey

are the parents of two children, Ernest Austin, born July 12, 1904, and Vera

Mae, born May 6, 1907.



  Mr. Hovey is third oldest of a family of six children. They, with their names

and births, follow: Francis Amelia, born Oct. 20, 1860; Ida Estella, born April

19, 1867; Melvin Whitney, born June 19, 1869; Carrie Helena (Mrs. A. W. Ferrin),

born Aug. 17, 1871; Addie Loretta, born Oct. 7, 1873; Florence Ethel, born Aug.

7, 1880. Two sisters died at an early age and one died at the age of 21 years.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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