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Collins Harry Emerson [Male] b. 15 DEC 1875 Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA - d. 19 JUL 1910

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Moved in 1887 from Wisconsin to Parker, South Dakota with parents. Lived on a farm just west of town. In 1892 his mother, Anna moved into town with her three boys. As Harry was the oldest he no doubt had a large responsibility to help support the family. The census of 1910 lists Harry living in Parker with wife, Lydia, two chidren, Floyd and Fay, and an Uncle Andrew Morgan, age 37. Some time later the family moved to a farm northwest of Plankington, SD where they were living when Lydia died in 1925. Harry also homesteaded in Lyman County, SD in 1906. After Emma died, Harry and his mother, Anna, proved on two parcels of land there. The family moved to Plankington in 1911 or 1912 and lived there until 1927. Harry had a very successful and progressive farming operation; the barn had metal stanchions for the cows, when most had woden ones; he had a milking machine; a large tractor and threshing outfit; a carbide generator that manufactured gas for the lights in the house. He bought a car in 1918, one for the first roadsters in the area. In 1927 the family moved near Belle Fourche, SD. in the Black Hills. There they raised sheep and other livestock. Some of the boys moved to California in 1932 and Harry followed in 1933. Later most of them moved from California to Boise Idaho, where Floyd and Ralph live today, as do Kitty and Ardene. Harry lived at Nyssa, Oregon, where he had a tourist court, and managed a prisoner of war camp during World War II. All of the men worked as carpenters, and many buildings in Boise show their haniwork. Harry was affiliated with the M.E. Church. His funeral was conducted by Rev. Orville Jacobson of the Faith Luthern Church in Nyssa.

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