Emmet E. Crowe Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 806-807

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EMMET E. CROWE. Business ability is as essential to success in the 
calling of the agriculturist as in the commercial world, and it is a 
sterling quality found in the gentleman above named. He has made a 
success of farming on section 5, in Franklin township, Brown county, 
through the exercise of good business sense and strict attention to 
details. E~is farm is one of the best, as to cultivation and 
improvement, in the northern part of the county, and he is the 
fortunate possessor of four hundred and eighty acres of land. 

Mr. Crowe was born on a farm near Madison, Dane county, Wisconsin, 
December 5, 1859, and was the eldest in a family of four children, 
three sons and one daughter, born to J. B. and Sarah (Rapp) Crowe. His 
father was a native of Canada and was a farmer by occupation. He died 
in Montana, and the mother of our subject, who was born in 
Pennsylvania, survives him and resides with our subject. 

Emmet E. Crowe attended the country schools near his home and completed 
his education and resided there until 1882, when he went to Brown 
county, South Dakota, and after filing on land returned to Wisconsin in 
the fall of that year to spend the winter. The following spring he 
settled on his land and has since made that his home. The entire tract 
of four hundred and eighty acres is under a high state of cultivation 
and good buildings have been erected for the comfort and convenience of 
the family and the sheltering of the grain and stock. He has spared no 
pains in the fitting up of the place for a model country home and has 
met with success in his vocation. 

Our subject was married in McPherson county, South Dakota, December 13, 
1888, to Esther Mansfield, a native of Missouri. To Mr. and Mrs. Crowe 
six children have been born, as follows: Isla, Arlone, Iris, Merl, Roy 
and Elva, all of whom were born on the homestead farm in Brown county, 
South Dakota. Mr. Crowe is a leading member of the Willow Creek Dunkard 
church, and is deacon in the same. He is treasurer of Franklin township 
and is a man who has gained the confidence of the people among whom he 
has made his home since the early days of the history of that vicinity. 
He is a man of excellent character, enterprising and public-spirited, 
and his affairs are conducted on a business basis, giving every man his 
due and asking for himself only what is due him honestly. He is a man 
who keeps pace with the world and accepts new methods when their 
feasibility is sufficiently established in his mind. He is progressive 
and thoroughly practical, and well deserves his success and good name.