Albert S. Harvey Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1351-1352 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ALBERT S. HARVEY is a native of the state of Minnesota, having 
been born in Dodge county, on the 27th of February, 1855, and being a 
son of Wiles and Harriet Harvey, the former of whom is now deceased, he 
having been a farmer by vocation. The subject's educational advantages 
were those afforded in the public schools of his native county, and from 
his youth up he has been identified almost continuously with 
agricultural pursuits. He continued to reside in Minnesota until 1878, 
when, as a young man of twenty-three years, he decided to cast in his 
lot with the territory of Dakota, toward which the tide of immigration 
had begun to set in. He arrived in what is now Moody county in March of 
that year, and took up a homestead claim of three hundred and twenty 
acres of government land, in Colman township, being one of the first to 
settle in that section, while the population of the county at the time 
was summed up in a small number of families, the land being practically 
all in its primitive condition and bearing slight resemblance to the 
condition which today obtains, with attractive villages, well-cultivated 
farms, churches, schools and all other evidences of an advanced 
civilization. Mr. Harvey began life here in a modest way, his original 
dwelling being a rude sod house of the sort so common in the early 
pioneer era, and through energy, perseverance and good management he has 
developed a fine farm, being now the owner of three hundred and twenty 
acres of most arable land, while the place is improved with good 
buildings and yields excellent returns for the labor expended in its 
cultivation. Mr. Harvey has shown a proper interest in all that has 
touched the general welfare and material advancement of the county, and 
has aided the cause of education and all other enterprises for the 
enhancement of the prosperity of the community, while in politics he is 
a stanch adherent of the Populist party. 

	Mr. Harvey has been twice married. In 1884 he wedded Miss Frances 
Scoville, who was born and reared in Wisconsin, and whose death occurred 
in 1889. She is survived by two children, Gilbert and Volney. On the 
21st of February, 1895, Mr. Harvey married Mrs. Emily Morse, who was 
born in Wisconsin and who was a resident of Colman at the time of her 
marriage, while she is a daughter of C. L. Meeker, who was numbered 
among the early settlers in Moody county. Of this union has been born 
one child, Myrtle. One stepson and all four of the children still remain 
at the parental home.