1Harvey ND, 75th Jubilee, Growing with Pride, 1906-1981.
Published by the Odessa Digital Library – 20 May 1996.
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Copyright 1996, Roger W. Ehrich, 1407 Locust Avenue, Blacksburg, VA 24060
NOTE: This transcription of Harvey’s “Growing with Pride, 1906-1981” was prepared by Roger W. Ehrich on May 19, 1996 and is issued with the permission of Ms. Marge Grosz, Harvey Area Book Committee.
Written by Christine E. Prom and edited by Theresa Prom Rudnick.
Published by the Odessa Digital Library – 20 May 1996.
“This document may be freely used for personal, nonprofit purposes or linked by other WWW sites. It may also be shared with others, provided the header with copyright notice is included. However, it may not be republished in any form without permission of the copyright owner.”
Copyright 1996, Roger W. Ehrich, 1407 Locust Avenue, Blacksburg, VA 24060
NOTE: This transcription of Harvey’s “Growing with Pride, 1906-1981” was prepared by Roger W. Ehrich on May 19, 1996 and is issued with the permission of Ms. Marge Grosz, Harvey Area Book Committee.
MATH PROM FAMILY
Editor’s Note: Christine Prom died of cancer on April 30, 1980. This family history and personal memories were compiled by her during the last five years of her life.Written by Christine E. Prom and edited by Theresa Prom Rudnick.
Both my father’s and mother’s families came from the same area in northwestern Europe. They lived in the Dorf (village) of Baeving, Luxembourg.
During the nineteenth century, there were many people migrating to America. In 1857, our grandparents also decided to come. My father’s family then consisted of his parents, Heinrich and Susanna Prom, and their four oldest children, namely, Magdalena, Matthias, Catherine, and Johann (John). Those migrating from my mother’s family were her parents, Michael and Catherine Meyeres (who had recently married), Michael’s parents, and his brothers and sisters. Michael was the oldest son, and the youngest son was only two years old. I do not know the name of his father, but his mother’s name was also Catherine.
They traveled by train from Baeving to Antwerp, Belgium, and there embarked for New York, USA. My father was then five years old, and he remembered many things about the journey (either from his own memory or what was later told him by his parents). When they arrived at Antwerp, their ship had already sailed, because it was filled to capacity and could take on no more passengers. For them, that really was a blessing, because that ship, and all aboard, were never heard from again. Presumably, it was lost at sea.
So they had to wait there until the next ship sailed. The ocean was rough, and on some days they were blown back further than they had sailed on several previous days. So the journey was very long. They were getting short of drinking water, and it was rationed the last weeks. Finally, they arrived at New York harbor on July 4, 1857. They remembered that date, because they had to stay on the ship one more day, because of the holiday.
From information obtained by Mrs. RaNae Langness from the National Archives in Washington, DC, I have learned that the ship that brought them over was the John H. Elliot. They also said that it usually took more than a month to cross the ocean. (I seem to remember that my father said it took somewhere around six weeks.) The Master was Joseph H. Tucker, and there were 231 passengers on the ship.
From New York, our grandparents traveled to Ozaukee County, Wis., and settled near the (then) small town of Port Washington, about 30 miles north of Milwaukee. The Prom family settled a few miles southeast of town, and the Meyeres family four miles north.
The first houses and barns they built were of stone, as was the custom in Europe at that time. The land was mostly brush and had to be cleared before it could be farmed. This took many years of hard work. They were the first pioneers of our family in this new country, just as their children (our parents) later moved on to Minnesota, and still later to North Dakota (still Dakota Territory at that time), and in turn, became pioneers here.
My mother’s grandparents lived with them until they died. I do not have the dates, but I remember her saying that her grandmother lived to the age of 95. Her grandfather had died earlier. Her father, Michael Meyeres, died when she was 13, and her brother, the youngest, only six months old. Two years later, Grandma Meyeres married William Kleyer. There were seven more children born to the Proms in Wisconsin: Mary, Nicolas, John B., Peter, Hubert, Catherine, and Nickie.
When my father Math was about 14 years old, he started to work at a neighboring farm. He had six younger brothers to help at home. He worked for this farmer until he was about 19, when he went to Illinois, where he became apprenticed to a blacksmith and wagon builder. In order to learn the trade, he lived with them and became a member of their family. This took two years, or until about 1873.
Some time after that, he came to Bellechester, Minn., and opened his own shop. Whether or not he went there directly, or if it was later, I do not know. In February, 1878, he married Marianne Strauss in Bellechester. Prior to this, he had built his house and shop there. The house is still standing and now belongs to our cousin, Annie Peters.
Five children were born in Minnesota, but two, Nicolas and Catherine, had died in infancy and are buried in Bellechester.
Pa had first come up to Wells County in the fall of 1888 to file on a claim. It still was “Dakota Territory” then, but became a state in 1889. In the spring of 1889, Pa and Henry Miller (also of Bellechester), came up, together with their household goods, machinery, and cattle in two railroad cars. Ten-year-old John and Henry’s brother, Matt, came along with the men, and all four rode in the same train with the cattle in order to feed and take care of them.
Marianne, the mother, with eight-year-old Mary and two-year-old Annie, went to stay at Casselton with her brother, Math Strauss, until a house could be built. Then they came to Wells County, where Lucy was born on July 18.
The first house and barn were built 1/2 mile south of the present location. That was the first quarter Pa filed on, and it was called a “Preemption.” (The Certificate No. 4165 of this Government Grant is signed by then President Benjamin Harrison.)
There were few families living here at that time. The Mike Stoos family was living 1/2 mile east of us, and the Montgomery brothers, Hugh, Bob, Tom, their sister Mary and their mother were living on their homesteads (the present Emanuel Fix farm). Another brother, Willie, homesteaded across the road from us on the northeast, which is now part of the Sommers farm.
The first Post Office was at the Montgomery farm. It was called Whitby Post Office. Later, when a school was built one mile north of us, it was called the Whitby School. The section it was built on was school land. The state reserved one section in each township for school land, which could not be homesteaded but was used and later sold for the benefit of the schools. Still later, after many more families had settled in the township, three more schools were built. They were called No. 1; No. 2; No. 3; and No. 4. Ours (and we got the old school building) was No. 4. It was moved to the southeast corner of the township, 1/2 mile north of the Math Miller farm.
The nearest town, Sykeston, was at the end of that railroad, and there were only an elevator and a small general store. To get machinery or repairs, the nearest town was Carrington. Pa had brought his blacksmith tools along, and he was soon busy (in his spare time) sharpening plow shares for all the neighbors, which saved them the time of driving to Carrington. He also built spring wagons for them (a two-seated buggy with spring seats).
On July 18, 1891, Marianne, the mother died. Lucy was then two, Annie four, Mary ten, and John twelve. The Soo Railroad had not yet been built, and there was no cemetery here, so Pa took her down to Bellechester for burial along side of the two children already buried there.
It was a very sad time for them all. It must have been very difficult for a ten-year-old girl to take over the household duties, even with the help of her father. However, they struggled through that summer. After the crop was harvested, Pa rented out the farm for two years and took John and Mary down to Bellechester, to stay with relatives, so that they could go back to school. They had missed two years, as there still was no school here.
The two smaller, Annie and Lucy, he took along down to Wisconsin, to his mother's. Grandma Prom was then living with Uncle Hubert on their home farm. (Grandpa Prom had died in 1890). Then he went to Chicago to find work. Later in winter, he returned to North Dakota to sell his grain and cattle, and also his blacksmith tools.
The following year, on August 9, 1892, he married Susanna Meyeres of Port Washington, Wis. John and Mary had come down there after school closed, and they were all together again. They lived in Chicago for about one year, and John and Mary could go to Sister School, as they also had in Minnesota. In the summer of 1893, they came back to North Dakota.
Pa then filed on a second quarter, which was the homestead. It consisted of 80 acres north of the Preemption, and another 80 acres west of that. And because they had to live on it, they had to move the buildings 1/2 mile to the north. (The Homestead Certificate No. 3024 is signed by the President William McKinley on the seventh day of December, 1899.)
The first barn built there (on the homestead) was the stone-walled one west of the house. There were plenty of stones available (the fields were full of them and they had to be picked up). Also, it was more economical to use the stones than to buy lumber and haul it from Carrington. (Pa did drive to Antelope Lake, a distance of about 25 miles, to get felled trees for fence posts.)
That same summer, Clara was born. But she lived only seven weeks. And in February 1895, Christine was born. Henry Steve was born in April 1897. He also lived only four months. (There were many childhood diseases in those years and no doctors available.) Both Clara and Henry were buried, temporarily, in the garden, as we still had no cemetery. Emil John was born in August, 1898. He died in October, 1899. By that time, we did have a cemetery. So the two graves in the garden were also moved there.
Laurence Peter was born in February, 1900. Uncle Peter Prom and Aunt Margaret (Mrs. Hubert Prom) were his sponsors. Uncles Peter and Hubert, (Pa’s brothers) with their families, had come from Wisconsin some time before this, and had both homesteaded, each on 80 acres a few miles north of us. Uncle Peter was a carpenter and did some work around town here, including work on our first parish house. After he had proved up his claim, he sold his land to Uncle Hubert, and he and his family returned to Wisconsin.
By the time John was old enough to homestead, there was no land left around Harvey, but he was able to find 160 acres available southeast of Balfour. Cecelia Ann was born in November, 1902. She was with us only a few months. She died in February, 1903.
In the summer of 1929, the folks built and moved into the house at 520 East Brewster Street, where I am now living. I was then attending Business College at Fargo. In July, 1930, I started to work as bookkeeper, in the Harvey Co-operative Creamery. I worked there until January, 1934, when I accepted a position in the auditing office of the Land O’Lakes Creameries, which was then located at Wadena, Minn. (Later it was moved to their main offices at Minneapolis.)
In May, 1934, my father died, so I came home to be with my mother. I stayed and took care of her until she died in November, 1946. Then, in January, 1947, I started to work in the offices of St. Aloisius Hospital. I worked there continuously until I retired in the fall of 1966.
Laurence and Edith moved to Alpha, Minn., in the fall of 1960. At that time, their son, Tony, took over the family farm. Laurence died there in September, 1965. John had died in March, 1947, and Mary died in May 1968.
I remember our trip to Port Washington, Wisconsin, in 1899—my mother, Emil and I. I was four and Emil one year old. It was my first train ride. We traveled by pullman, which means we had a berth to sleep in (a lower one). It was a new experience.
Grandma Kleyer and Aunt Maryann were living on the outskirts of the town, and Uncle Nicolaus Prom was living next door. They had four little girls and a boy about two. Grandma Prom was also living with them.
I remember the Arbor in Grandma Kleyer’s yard, all covered with grape vines; Grandma Prom coming over with a bowl of freshly picked cherries for me as I was sitting there; the four little cousins to play with; our walk down town one day to have Emil’s and my picture taken. It was about a mile and a neighbor had loaned us a buggy for Emil to ride in.
I remember our return home. The north kitchen had been added to our house and the hardwood floor oiled and varnished, but we had to wait for it to dry before we could move in.
A few months later Emil took sick and died. I remember the doctor coming to our house and examining each of us. I believe that Dr. Julia Jacobson Keats was one of the first, if not the first doctor in Harvey. I think that she said it was the croup.
I remember Mary's wedding in 1901. We still had only the little church on Alder Avenue, and not all could get in. I rode to church with Otto Wolpers, who was working for us at the time. (He, later, went to the Seminary, and was ordained.) My sister, Annie, was bridesmaid and Pete’s brother Ed was best man. Some of the neighbor ladies came to the house in the morning to cook the dinner.
In 1902 I spent a week at Mary’s, and when I came home the foundations had been made for the granary southwest of the house.
In 1903 there was an epidemic of whooping cough. Lucy and I had it first but soon Laurence and baby Cecelia got it too. Annie was 16, and no longer going to school, and she was the only one of us who did not get it. So most of the housework fell on her. Lucy and I could take care of ourselves, but we lost about six weeks of school. But Laurence was very sick; he also got pneumonia. So Mother was kept going day and night, taking care of him and the baby. She was only a few months old, and also came down with the measles. I saw her die in my mother’s arms.
When John was 21, he homesteaded 160 acres near Balfour, ND. There was no longer any land left to homestead around Harvey. He had to live on it and farm it during the summer, but in the winter he would come home for several months, a visit we always looked forward to.
In the summer of 1905, Uncle Henry Wentink, Aunt Barbara, Ma’s sister and their three children came up from Chicago with all their household goods, planning to make their home here. They purchased 160 acres of land southwest of Uncle Hubert’s and started to dig a basement for the house. Meanwhile, they were staying with us. We kids enjoyed it very much. George, the oldest, was Lucy’s age (about 15), Mary 11, I was 10, and Alfred about Laurence’s age.
While both Uncle Henry and Aunt Barbara had been raised on the farm, they had lived all of their married life in Chicago. And after a few months here, they decided that North Dakota and the farm were not for them. And so they returned to Chicago.
Christine Prom Memories
http://www.odessa3.org/collections/towns/link/harvey81.txt
There are some errors, but very interesting.
Susan and Math Prom
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During the nineteenth century, there were many people migrating to America. In 1857, our grandparents also decided to come. My father’s family then consisted of his parents, Heinrich and Susanna Prom, and their four oldest children, namely, Magdalena, Matthias, Catherine, and Johann (John). Those migrating from my mother’s family were her parents, Michael and Catherine Meyeres (who had recently married), Michael’s parents, and his brothers and sisters. Michael was the oldest son, and the youngest son was only two years old. I do not know the name of his father, but his mother’s name was also Catherine.
They traveled by train from Baeving to Antwerp, Belgium, and there embarked for New York, USA. My father was then five years old, and he remembered many things about the journey (either from his own memory or what was later told him by his parents). When they arrived at Antwerp, their ship had already sailed, because it was filled to capacity and could take on no more passengers. For them, that really was a blessing, because that ship, and all aboard, were never heard from again. Presumably, it was lost at sea.
So they had to wait there until the next ship sailed. The ocean was rough, and on some days they were blown back further than they had sailed on several previous days. So the journey was very long. They were getting short of drinking water, and it was rationed the last weeks. Finally, they arrived at New York harbor on July 4, 1857. They remembered that date, because they had to stay on the ship one more day, because of the holiday.
From information obtained by Mrs. RaNae Langness from the National Archives in Washington, DC, I have learned that the ship that brought them over was the John H. Elliot. They also said that it usually took more than a month to cross the ocean. (I seem to remember that my father said it took somewhere around six weeks.) The Master was Joseph H. Tucker, and there were 231 passengers on the ship.
From New York, our grandparents traveled to Ozaukee County, Wis., and settled near the (then) small town of Port Washington, about 30 miles north of Milwaukee. The Prom family settled a few miles southeast of town, and the Meyeres family four miles north.
The first houses and barns they built were of stone, as was the custom in Europe at that time. The land was mostly brush and had to be cleared before it could be farmed. This took many years of hard work. They were the first pioneers of our family in this new country, just as their children (our parents) later moved on to Minnesota, and still later to North Dakota (still Dakota Territory at that time), and in turn, became pioneers here.
My mother’s grandparents lived with them until they died. I do not have the dates, but I remember her saying that her grandmother lived to the age of 95. Her grandfather had died earlier. Her father, Michael Meyeres, died when she was 13, and her brother, the youngest, only six months old. Two years later, Grandma Meyeres married William Kleyer. There were seven more children born to the Proms in Wisconsin: Mary, Nicolas, John B., Peter, Hubert, Catherine, and Nickie.
When my father Math was about 14 years old, he started to work at a neighboring farm. He had six younger brothers to help at home. He worked for this farmer until he was about 19, when he went to Illinois, where he became apprenticed to a blacksmith and wagon builder. In order to learn the trade, he lived with them and became a member of their family. This took two years, or until about 1873.
Some time after that, he came to Bellechester, Minn., and opened his own shop. Whether or not he went there directly, or if it was later, I do not know. In February, 1878, he married Marianne Strauss in Bellechester. Prior to this, he had built his house and shop there. The house is still standing and now belongs to our cousin, Annie Peters.
Five children were born in Minnesota, but two, Nicolas and Catherine, had died in infancy and are buried in Bellechester.
Pa had first come up to Wells County in the fall of 1888 to file on a claim. It still was “Dakota Territory” then, but became a state in 1889. In the spring of 1889, Pa and Henry Miller (also of Bellechester), came up, together with their household goods, machinery, and cattle in two railroad cars. Ten-year-old John and Henry’s brother, Matt, came along with the men, and all four rode in the same train with the cattle in order to feed and take care of them.
Marianne, the mother, with eight-year-old Mary and two-year-old Annie, went to stay at Casselton with her brother, Math Strauss, until a house could be built. Then they came to Wells County, where Lucy was born on July 18.
The first house and barn were built 1/2 mile south of the present location. That was the first quarter Pa filed on, and it was called a “Preemption.” (The Certificate No. 4165 of this Government Grant is signed by then President Benjamin Harrison.)
There were few families living here at that time. The Mike Stoos family was living 1/2 mile east of us, and the Montgomery brothers, Hugh, Bob, Tom, their sister Mary and their mother were living on their homesteads (the present Emanuel Fix farm). Another brother, Willie, homesteaded across the road from us on the northeast, which is now part of the Sommers farm.
The first Post Office was at the Montgomery farm. It was called Whitby Post Office. Later, when a school was built one mile north of us, it was called the Whitby School. The section it was built on was school land. The state reserved one section in each township for school land, which could not be homesteaded but was used and later sold for the benefit of the schools. Still later, after many more families had settled in the township, three more schools were built. They were called No. 1; No. 2; No. 3; and No. 4. Ours (and we got the old school building) was No. 4. It was moved to the southeast corner of the township, 1/2 mile north of the Math Miller farm.
The nearest town, Sykeston, was at the end of that railroad, and there were only an elevator and a small general store. To get machinery or repairs, the nearest town was Carrington. Pa had brought his blacksmith tools along, and he was soon busy (in his spare time) sharpening plow shares for all the neighbors, which saved them the time of driving to Carrington. He also built spring wagons for them (a two-seated buggy with spring seats).
On July 18, 1891, Marianne, the mother died. Lucy was then two, Annie four, Mary ten, and John twelve. The Soo Railroad had not yet been built, and there was no cemetery here, so Pa took her down to Bellechester for burial along side of the two children already buried there.
It was a very sad time for them all. It must have been very difficult for a ten-year-old girl to take over the household duties, even with the help of her father. However, they struggled through that summer. After the crop was harvested, Pa rented out the farm for two years and took John and Mary down to Bellechester, to stay with relatives, so that they could go back to school. They had missed two years, as there still was no school here.
The two smaller, Annie and Lucy, he took along down to Wisconsin, to his mother's. Grandma Prom was then living with Uncle Hubert on their home farm. (Grandpa Prom had died in 1890). Then he went to Chicago to find work. Later in winter, he returned to North Dakota to sell his grain and cattle, and also his blacksmith tools.
The following year, on August 9, 1892, he married Susanna Meyeres of Port Washington, Wis. John and Mary had come down there after school closed, and they were all together again. They lived in Chicago for about one year, and John and Mary could go to Sister School, as they also had in Minnesota. In the summer of 1893, they came back to North Dakota.
Pa then filed on a second quarter, which was the homestead. It consisted of 80 acres north of the Preemption, and another 80 acres west of that. And because they had to live on it, they had to move the buildings 1/2 mile to the north. (The Homestead Certificate No. 3024 is signed by the President William McKinley on the seventh day of December, 1899.)
The first barn built there (on the homestead) was the stone-walled one west of the house. There were plenty of stones available (the fields were full of them and they had to be picked up). Also, it was more economical to use the stones than to buy lumber and haul it from Carrington. (Pa did drive to Antelope Lake, a distance of about 25 miles, to get felled trees for fence posts.)
That same summer, Clara was born. But she lived only seven weeks. And in February 1895, Christine was born. Henry Steve was born in April 1897. He also lived only four months. (There were many childhood diseases in those years and no doctors available.) Both Clara and Henry were buried, temporarily, in the garden, as we still had no cemetery. Emil John was born in August, 1898. He died in October, 1899. By that time, we did have a cemetery. So the two graves in the garden were also moved there.
Laurence Peter was born in February, 1900. Uncle Peter Prom and Aunt Margaret (Mrs. Hubert Prom) were his sponsors. Uncles Peter and Hubert, (Pa’s brothers) with their families, had come from Wisconsin some time before this, and had both homesteaded, each on 80 acres a few miles north of us. Uncle Peter was a carpenter and did some work around town here, including work on our first parish house. After he had proved up his claim, he sold his land to Uncle Hubert, and he and his family returned to Wisconsin.
By the time John was old enough to homestead, there was no land left around Harvey, but he was able to find 160 acres available southeast of Balfour. Cecelia Ann was born in November, 1902. She was with us only a few months. She died in February, 1903.
In the summer of 1929, the folks built and moved into the house at 520 East Brewster Street, where I am now living. I was then attending Business College at Fargo. In July, 1930, I started to work as bookkeeper, in the Harvey Co-operative Creamery. I worked there until January, 1934, when I accepted a position in the auditing office of the Land O’Lakes Creameries, which was then located at Wadena, Minn. (Later it was moved to their main offices at Minneapolis.)
In May, 1934, my father died, so I came home to be with my mother. I stayed and took care of her until she died in November, 1946. Then, in January, 1947, I started to work in the offices of St. Aloisius Hospital. I worked there continuously until I retired in the fall of 1966.
Laurence and Edith moved to Alpha, Minn., in the fall of 1960. At that time, their son, Tony, took over the family farm. Laurence died there in September, 1965. John had died in March, 1947, and Mary died in May 1968.
Recollections by Christine Prom
Written by Christine Prom and edited by Theresa Prom Rudnick
One of my earliest memories is of the two little graves in the garden, where Clara and Henry were temporarily buried, with the two little white crosses and a fence around them and covered with many colored blooms—poppies and golden flowers and little white flowers, as we called them, which my mother and older sisters had planted.
Written by Christine Prom and edited by Theresa Prom Rudnick
I remember our trip to Port Washington, Wisconsin, in 1899—my mother, Emil and I. I was four and Emil one year old. It was my first train ride. We traveled by pullman, which means we had a berth to sleep in (a lower one). It was a new experience.
Grandma Kleyer and Aunt Maryann were living on the outskirts of the town, and Uncle Nicolaus Prom was living next door. They had four little girls and a boy about two. Grandma Prom was also living with them.
I remember the Arbor in Grandma Kleyer’s yard, all covered with grape vines; Grandma Prom coming over with a bowl of freshly picked cherries for me as I was sitting there; the four little cousins to play with; our walk down town one day to have Emil’s and my picture taken. It was about a mile and a neighbor had loaned us a buggy for Emil to ride in.
I remember our return home. The north kitchen had been added to our house and the hardwood floor oiled and varnished, but we had to wait for it to dry before we could move in.
A few months later Emil took sick and died. I remember the doctor coming to our house and examining each of us. I believe that Dr. Julia Jacobson Keats was one of the first, if not the first doctor in Harvey. I think that she said it was the croup.
I remember Mary's wedding in 1901. We still had only the little church on Alder Avenue, and not all could get in. I rode to church with Otto Wolpers, who was working for us at the time. (He, later, went to the Seminary, and was ordained.) My sister, Annie, was bridesmaid and Pete’s brother Ed was best man. Some of the neighbor ladies came to the house in the morning to cook the dinner.
In 1902 I spent a week at Mary’s, and when I came home the foundations had been made for the granary southwest of the house.
In 1903 there was an epidemic of whooping cough. Lucy and I had it first but soon Laurence and baby Cecelia got it too. Annie was 16, and no longer going to school, and she was the only one of us who did not get it. So most of the housework fell on her. Lucy and I could take care of ourselves, but we lost about six weeks of school. But Laurence was very sick; he also got pneumonia. So Mother was kept going day and night, taking care of him and the baby. She was only a few months old, and also came down with the measles. I saw her die in my mother’s arms.
When John was 21, he homesteaded 160 acres near Balfour, ND. There was no longer any land left to homestead around Harvey. He had to live on it and farm it during the summer, but in the winter he would come home for several months, a visit we always looked forward to.
In the summer of 1905, Uncle Henry Wentink, Aunt Barbara, Ma’s sister and their three children came up from Chicago with all their household goods, planning to make their home here. They purchased 160 acres of land southwest of Uncle Hubert’s and started to dig a basement for the house. Meanwhile, they were staying with us. We kids enjoyed it very much. George, the oldest, was Lucy’s age (about 15), Mary 11, I was 10, and Alfred about Laurence’s age.
While both Uncle Henry and Aunt Barbara had been raised on the farm, they had lived all of their married life in Chicago. And after a few months here, they decided that North Dakota and the farm were not for them. And so they returned to Chicago.
Christine Prom Memories
http://www.odessa3.org/collections/towns/link/harvey81.txt
There are some errors, but very interesting.
2Harvey ND, 75th Jubilee, Growing with Pride, 1906-1981. Published by the Odessa Digital Library - 20 May 1996.