Ross Franklin HARVEY

Birth: Jan. 17, 1894 Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA
Death: Apr. 19, 1916 Saint Maries, Benewah County, Idaho, USA
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ROSS F.
HARVEY
1894 - 1916
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Ross Dutcher - Harvey Adopted

The following was published in the Press yesterday, but refers to Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Harvey and their foster son Ross, of this city instead of Hartford:

Uncared for by his father from the time of his mother's death, when he was a year and a half old, and coming into a small legacy $100, Ross F. Dutcher, now aged 14, has been adopted by the foster parents who have cared for him for 13 years, to avoid his father securing letters of guardianship which he asked.

Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Harvey of Hartford, who have cared for the boy as their own, secured the papers authorizing their legal adoption of the boy, in probate court.

In 1895, Mrs. Charles Dutcher died, in the family home in Nebraska. Ross, then 1 1/2 years old, was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, distant relatives of the boys dead mother, to their home in Hartford. He has been cared form, and has been brought up to regard them as his own parents. Until but recently the boy has not know that his true name was not Harvey, and that he was not the son of the couple who had been so kind to him.

Last spring the boy's grandmother died, leaving him a legacy of $100. Since then the boys father, Charles Dutcher, who is traveling in North Dakota territory has tried to secure letters of guardianship. He sent papers, filled out for the boy's signature.

Not knowing what to do, the foster parents of Ross Dutcher tried it to find means of avoiding the appointment of the father as guardian. For nearly 13 years the elder Dutcher had paid no attention to his son and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey had come to love him and regard him as their own. They found their means in the advice of the probate judge of Minnehaha County.

Papers filed this week in the clerk of courts office authorizing Mr. and Mrs. Harvey as the legal parents of Ross Dutcher, by authority of judge J.T. Medin.

Dell Rapids Times – Tribune, December 24, 1908
Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota

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Ross Harvey

Many hearts were saddened last week when it became known that Ross Harvey had passed away. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Harvey, went to Port Townsend, Washington, about four weeks ago when they learned Ross was at a government hospital and the doctors wrote that his case was considered serious. He was very anxious to come home and they waited for him to gain before they started, but as there was no change for the better and he was anxious to start it was decided best. They had reached Idaho and last Wednesday evening, just as the day closed, although he seemed as well as usual and wanted his parents to rest, Mr. Harvey was not satisfied and asked the conductor to have a doctor at the next station, which was St. Marie, but Ross had fallen peacefully asleep before they reached their. Just a nervous exhaustion from overwork, the doctor said.

The deceased finished high school here four years ago, and had then made rapid advancement in electrical studies. He was very much interested in wireless telegraphy and went to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he graduated, completing the course in a very short lapse of time and has made rapid advancement since. Never of a very robust health, his ambition was greater than his physical strength, and he would not give up. He was home five weeks on vacation at last summer and his parents urged him to stay longer as he did not seem well then but he was anxious to get back to work.

He was then on a vessel plying between San Francisco and Seward, Alaska, and during the winter was given a land station in Alaska, where the work was very heavy, long hours and steady work, and it was here his strength gave completely out and on the last day before he was relieved, as he took the last message he was to receive there, he fell exhausted and in a few days was taken to the hospital.

His ambition seemed to be to reach the highest pinnacle of his profession, and that he was making rapid advancement in evidenced by the fact that he had been given a land station in San Francisco and also by the reports of his work received by his parents from headquarters. Mr. Harvey was told by those under home Ross had worked that they considered him a wonder and that in all his work and examinations his work was passed as "perfect."

He expended all his energy in acquiring knowledge to make of himself the most use possible and his mind was wholly given to the work of service. Jesus never discouraged effort or paralyzed endeavor, but was himself, in the noblest sense of the term, and enthusiast. His wife was a strenuous one, and who ever crowded so much in a short space of time, and He is our example of the perfect life which he did not preach to us but lived for us. No more did he promise the resurrection and the life but was the resurrection and the life, the greatest event to as in all history, which was commemorated last Sunday, a day which shines for as with a glory beyond the reach of speech. To the Christ death was but a passing shadow, a momentary clouding of the son, powerless to destroy or even to obscure. He is the massive foundation on which the faith of humanity rests, and in this Easter season can't you hear the whispers: "Nothing is lost that ever truly lived." "Because I live, ye shall live also."

Ross F. Harvey was born at Dell Rapids, South Dakota, January 17, 1894. Died on board a train near St. Marie, Idaho, April 19, 1916, aged 22 years, 3 months, and 2 days.

He was graduated from Dell Rapids High School, class of 1912, and also a graduate of the Marconi Wireless Dodge Institute at Valpariso, Indiana. Made a success of his chosen profession, and had been a wireless operator on a steamer running from San Francisco, California, to Seward, Alaska, the past two years.

He had offered to him a position in the High Power station at San Francisco, California, which he had accepted and would have begun his duties last spring had his health permitted.

He leaves a devoted father and mother besides many other relatives and friends.

Cards of thanks

Words fail to express our gratitude to the many friends and neighbors for their sincere sympathy and assistance during our recent great bereavement, in the death of our beloved son, Ross.

Also for the many beautiful floral tributes.

Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Harvey, and other relative.

Dell Rapids Tribune April 27, 1916
Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
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Contributed on 5/13/11

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