Title
HARVEY B. CANDEE
Creator
Mylo S. Candee
Coverage
TOWNSHIP 139N RANGE 94W
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HARVEY B. CANDEE
Harvey Bunce (for his grandmother Nancy Bunce Candee) Candee was born on Oct. 23, 1897 in Dodge Center, Kasson County, Minnesota. The following spring his parents Wilbur Charles Candee and Mary Susanna Cooke Candee packed their firstborn, Gladys, Harvey and all then earthly possessions to take the Northern Pacific some 400 miles west to the new state of North Dakota. Wilbur, suffering the effects of rheumatic fever, had become a skilled jeweler and optician, a profession he soon established in downtown Dickinson.
Two younger sisters, Ruth and Esther, joined the family before a severe stroke rendered Wilbur an invalid forcing them to sell the business and claim a homestead south of Gladstone. By age nine, Harvey was fatherless and the huge job of running the farm fell to the young widow, Mary, and her four children. Harvey and his four sisters attended the Lonestar School which was located just south of the present Leo Stem farm, several miles from the Candee homestead. For several years the Candee children had their mother as their teacher, a situation which allowed no “monkey business” as Mary Cooke Candee was educated and gentle but a strict disciplinarian. Also under her direction, the children followed in the longstanding tradition of the Cooke family as firm followers of John Wesley's Methodism. Harvey was a lifelong member of the Gladstone and later Dickinson Methodist Churches.
Harvey Candee's education included a stint at the Agricultural College (now N.D. State University) before returning to assume full responsibility for the homestead.
The 1920's were good years. Sister Gladys was a Methodist missionary; Ruth had married; Esther was finishing high school in Bismarck where mother had a position with the N.D. State Library.
For many years during the 1920's, Harvey was the Star Route mail carrier between Gladstone and Lefor, a job he apparently enjoyed since it provided him with many stones years later. It is also rumored that he enjoyed good cigars and fast cars (like his Model A Roadster) during these years but he gave up smoking when a grassfire of unexplained origins came close to burning his farm.
In 1931, the 34 year old bachelor married the 18 year old neighbor's daughter, Kathryn Kary, and the family soon included seven healthy children to help with the work.
Taking the advice of a neighbor, Harvey and Kathryn undertook a 10 year experiment in raising sheep starting in 1934 when wheat sold for 31¢ a bushel and cattle prices were even less attractive.
As of this writing the seven children of Harvey and Kathryn Candee are as follows: Leslie Wilbur: senior Air Force colonel, base commander in Georgia; Gordon Harvey; heavy construction equipment, San Francisco; Douglas George; president, construction company, Dickinson; Howard Bunce: Jehovah Witness work in Washington state; Marjorie Estelle; married, family, living in Alabama; Mylo Stewart: president, advertising agency, Bismarck, and Lyle Edwin: Jehovah Witness missionary in Spain.
Kathryn Kary Candee is retired and living in Dickinson. Harvey B. Candee died on America's Bicen-tennial, July 4, 1976 and is buried beside his parents and elder sister, Gladys, in the Gladstone Cemetery.
By Mylo S. Candee
Harvey Bunce (for his grandmother Nancy Bunce Candee) Candee was born on Oct. 23, 1897 in Dodge Center, Kasson County, Minnesota. The following spring his parents Wilbur Charles Candee and Mary Susanna Cooke Candee packed their firstborn, Gladys, Harvey and all then earthly possessions to take the Northern Pacific some 400 miles west to the new state of North Dakota. Wilbur, suffering the effects of rheumatic fever, had become a skilled jeweler and optician, a profession he soon established in downtown Dickinson.
Two younger sisters, Ruth and Esther, joined the family before a severe stroke rendered Wilbur an invalid forcing them to sell the business and claim a homestead south of Gladstone. By age nine, Harvey was fatherless and the huge job of running the farm fell to the young widow, Mary, and her four children. Harvey and his four sisters attended the Lonestar School which was located just south of the present Leo Stem farm, several miles from the Candee homestead. For several years the Candee children had their mother as their teacher, a situation which allowed no “monkey business” as Mary Cooke Candee was educated and gentle but a strict disciplinarian. Also under her direction, the children followed in the longstanding tradition of the Cooke family as firm followers of John Wesley's Methodism. Harvey was a lifelong member of the Gladstone and later Dickinson Methodist Churches.
Harvey Candee's education included a stint at the Agricultural College (now N.D. State University) before returning to assume full responsibility for the homestead.
The 1920's were good years. Sister Gladys was a Methodist missionary; Ruth had married; Esther was finishing high school in Bismarck where mother had a position with the N.D. State Library.
For many years during the 1920's, Harvey was the Star Route mail carrier between Gladstone and Lefor, a job he apparently enjoyed since it provided him with many stones years later. It is also rumored that he enjoyed good cigars and fast cars (like his Model A Roadster) during these years but he gave up smoking when a grassfire of unexplained origins came close to burning his farm.
In 1931, the 34 year old bachelor married the 18 year old neighbor's daughter, Kathryn Kary, and the family soon included seven healthy children to help with the work.
Taking the advice of a neighbor, Harvey and Kathryn undertook a 10 year experiment in raising sheep starting in 1934 when wheat sold for 31¢ a bushel and cattle prices were even less attractive.
As of this writing the seven children of Harvey and Kathryn Candee are as follows: Leslie Wilbur: senior Air Force colonel, base commander in Georgia; Gordon Harvey; heavy construction equipment, San Francisco; Douglas George; president, construction company, Dickinson; Howard Bunce: Jehovah Witness work in Washington state; Marjorie Estelle; married, family, living in Alabama; Mylo Stewart: president, advertising agency, Bismarck, and Lyle Edwin: Jehovah Witness missionary in Spain.
Kathryn Kary Candee is retired and living in Dickinson. Harvey B. Candee died on America's Bicen-tennial, July 4, 1976 and is buried beside his parents and elder sister, Gladys, in the Gladstone Cemetery.
By Mylo S. Candee