Harry Elmer Phelps Biography


	This biography appears on page 1382 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	HARRY ELMER PHELPS, the present able and popular incumbent of the 
office of state's attorney of Marshall county, was born in Hillsdale 
Mills county, Iowa, on the 23d of June, 1876, and is a son of Phineas 
and Fanny V. (Fogg) Phelps, the former of whom was born in New Hampshire 
and the latter in Maine, while the ancestry is of mingled English, 
Scotch and Welsh strains. When the subject was a child his parents 
removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in the public schools of that 
fair city he received his early educational training, being graduated in 
the South high school in June, 1895, after which he was matriculated in 
the law department of the University of Minnesota, in the same city, 
completing the prescribed technical course and being graduated on the 2d 
of June, 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and being duly 
admitted to the bar of the state. He initiated the active work of his 
profession in Minneapolis, where he was engaged in practice one year, at 
the expiration of which, in March, 1900, he came to Britton, South 
Dakota, where he has since won recognition and distinctive prestige in 
his profession, while he has proved a very discriminating and capable 
public prosecutor, having been elected state's attorney of Marshall 
county in November, I902. In politics he accords an uncompromising 
allegiance to the Republican party and is an active worker in its behalf 
in the various campaigns. Fraternally he is identified with the local 
lodges of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows. 

	On the 13th of June, 1901, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Phelps to Miss Vivian E. Furber, who was born in Owatonna, Minnesota, on 
the 31st of January, 1875, being a daughter of Charles M. Furber, of 
Britton, South Dakota.