Harry L. Bras was the fourth child born to Charles Waddle Bras and Hannah Mary DeMott. Harry married Harriet Eugenia Betts 1 Sept 1885. They were married 14 years, had four girls born to them in Mitchell, South Dakota, before she died in Jun 1903: Elsie Louiee (Bjodstrup), Lilian Eugenia (Edinger), Florence (Betts), and Sara Isabel (Weihe). Widowed and with 4 young daughters, he met Pearl Isabelle Phillips of Westfield, Wisconsin. They married 22 Dec 1904 in Portage, Wisconsin. Together, Harry and Pearl had two more children, Frank Phillips Bras Dec 1905 and Mary Emma Bras (Tobinski) May 1907 were also born in Mitchell, South Dakota. Harry Bras died in Centralia, Washington.
Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), p 1171-1172.
(Note: An error in his father's name has also been corrected below. This South Dakota biography did not include his 2nd marriage at the age of 42 to Pearl Isabelle Phillips in 1904 and the birth of two more children, Frank and Mary Emma both born also in Menno, South Dakota. It also didn't include his life after he moved from South Dakota to the state of Washington. There he became a prominent newspaper owner and editor of the Centralia Chronicle in Centralia, WA.
HARRY L. BRAS, educator, legislator, publisher, postmaster, promotor, politician and all-round good citizen, is a leader among the representative young men who have brought South Dakota to its present high place in the union of states. Energy and persistence are the prime qualifications which have won for him a most enviable position in the state. Few indeed are the enterprises for state development either upon educational or material lines in which he has not been prominently identified. As teacher, school superintendent and publisher of the state's leading educational journal he has made his impress upon the educational policy of the state for all of the period of statehood and before. As a legislator he introduced and pressed to passage the present efficient law for the inspection of food stuffs and dairy products, as well as many other important pieces of legislation. As a loyal citizen of his own city he organized the movement for the removal of the capital from Pierre to Mitchell and was by his neighbors made the manager of the pending campaign for capital removal before the people.
Harry L Bras is the son of Charles Wadle Bras, a successful lawyer, and Mary Hannah DeMott, of South Bend, Indiana. He therefore possesses that mixture of French and German blood which has produced so many strong and notable men. His parents located at Toolsboro, Louisa county, Iowa, where Harry was born October 16, 1862. In 1867 his family removed to New Boston, Illinois, and there he received a thorough common and high-school education and then took a course in the Illinois State Normal University and later completed his studies in the University of South Dakota. For three years he engaged in teaching in Illinois and then' locating at Mount Vernon, Davison county, South Dakota, he took up a tract of government land, but continued to teach for three years, at the end of which period he was elected county superintendent of schools. The country was new, the school system crude, lacking in uniformity and coherence, but he set to work promptly to reduce it to a practicable working system and soon secured the adoption of a uniform course of study, free text-books, raised the standard of teaching and gave to the schools and the teachers an enthusiastic interest in the work. He held the position three terms and declined a fourth nomination to engage in the publication of the South Dakota Educator, the official organ of all the state educational bodies. He still is the publisher of this journal, as well as of the South Dakotan, the organ of the State Historical Society, and the School Board Journal. By his energy and industry he has built up a large and profitable printing establishment and publishing house. From 1890 to 1896 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Madison Normal and for a portion of the time president of the board. From 1898 to 1902 he was a member of the state legislature. He has from the beginning been an active member of the State Educational Association and of the Teachers' and Pupils' Reading Circles and much of the. time one of the administrative officers of these bodies. Since 1892 he has been postmaster of Mitchell and is also the treasurer of the Commercial Fire Insurance Company.
On September 2, 1885, Harry Bras was married to Miss Hattie Betts, of Mount Vernon, and to them four daughters have been born, Elsie Louise, Lillian, Florence and Sarah. Hattie Bras died in Dec 1903. In the prime of his manhood, Mr. Bras, with state-wide acquaintance and unstinted popularity, is still but at the beginning of that career of usefulness and honor which his unflagging industry, integrity and ability give assurance that the community will require at his hands.
Contributor: Heather Hall (48030601)
Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), p 1171-1172.
(Note: An error in his father's name has also been corrected below. This South Dakota biography did not include his 2nd marriage at the age of 42 to Pearl Isabelle Phillips in 1904 and the birth of two more children, Frank and Mary Emma both born also in Menno, South Dakota. It also didn't include his life after he moved from South Dakota to the state of Washington. There he became a prominent newspaper owner and editor of the Centralia Chronicle in Centralia, WA.
HARRY L. BRAS, educator, legislator, publisher, postmaster, promotor, politician and all-round good citizen, is a leader among the representative young men who have brought South Dakota to its present high place in the union of states. Energy and persistence are the prime qualifications which have won for him a most enviable position in the state. Few indeed are the enterprises for state development either upon educational or material lines in which he has not been prominently identified. As teacher, school superintendent and publisher of the state's leading educational journal he has made his impress upon the educational policy of the state for all of the period of statehood and before. As a legislator he introduced and pressed to passage the present efficient law for the inspection of food stuffs and dairy products, as well as many other important pieces of legislation. As a loyal citizen of his own city he organized the movement for the removal of the capital from Pierre to Mitchell and was by his neighbors made the manager of the pending campaign for capital removal before the people.
Harry L Bras is the son of Charles Wadle Bras, a successful lawyer, and Mary Hannah DeMott, of South Bend, Indiana. He therefore possesses that mixture of French and German blood which has produced so many strong and notable men. His parents located at Toolsboro, Louisa county, Iowa, where Harry was born October 16, 1862. In 1867 his family removed to New Boston, Illinois, and there he received a thorough common and high-school education and then took a course in the Illinois State Normal University and later completed his studies in the University of South Dakota. For three years he engaged in teaching in Illinois and then' locating at Mount Vernon, Davison county, South Dakota, he took up a tract of government land, but continued to teach for three years, at the end of which period he was elected county superintendent of schools. The country was new, the school system crude, lacking in uniformity and coherence, but he set to work promptly to reduce it to a practicable working system and soon secured the adoption of a uniform course of study, free text-books, raised the standard of teaching and gave to the schools and the teachers an enthusiastic interest in the work. He held the position three terms and declined a fourth nomination to engage in the publication of the South Dakota Educator, the official organ of all the state educational bodies. He still is the publisher of this journal, as well as of the South Dakotan, the organ of the State Historical Society, and the School Board Journal. By his energy and industry he has built up a large and profitable printing establishment and publishing house. From 1890 to 1896 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Madison Normal and for a portion of the time president of the board. From 1898 to 1902 he was a member of the state legislature. He has from the beginning been an active member of the State Educational Association and of the Teachers' and Pupils' Reading Circles and much of the. time one of the administrative officers of these bodies. Since 1892 he has been postmaster of Mitchell and is also the treasurer of the Commercial Fire Insurance Company.
On September 2, 1885, Harry Bras was married to Miss Hattie Betts, of Mount Vernon, and to them four daughters have been born, Elsie Louise, Lillian, Florence and Sarah. Hattie Bras died in Dec 1903. In the prime of his manhood, Mr. Bras, with state-wide acquaintance and unstinted popularity, is still but at the beginning of that career of usefulness and honor which his unflagging industry, integrity and ability give assurance that the community will require at his hands.
Contributor: Heather Hall (48030601)
Harry L. Bras was the fourth child born to Charles Waddle Bras and Hannah Mary DeMott. Harry married Harriet Eugenia Betts 1 Sept 1885. They were married 14 years, had four girls born to them in Mitchell, South Dakota, before she died in Jun 1903: Elsie Louiee (Bjodstrup), Lilian Eugenia (Edinger), Florence (Betts), and Sara Isabel (Weihe). Widowed and with 4 young daughters, he met Pearl Isabelle Phillips of Westfield, Wisconsin. They married 22 Dec 1904 in Portage, Wisconsin. Together, Harry and Pearl had two more children, Frank Phillips Bras Dec 1905 and Mary Emma Bras (Tobinski) May 1907 were also born in Mitchell, South Dakota. Harry Bras died in Centralia, Washington.
Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), p 1171-1172.
(Note: An error in his father's name has also been corrected below. This South Dakota biography did not include his 2nd marriage at the age of 42 to Pearl Isabelle Phillips in 1904 and the birth of two more children, Frank and Mary Emma both born also in Menno, South Dakota. It also didn't include his life after he moved from South Dakota to the state of Washington. There he became a prominent newspaper owner and editor of the Centralia Chronicle in Centralia, WA.
HARRY L. BRAS, educator, legislator, publisher, postmaster, promotor, politician and all-round good citizen, is a leader among the representative young men who have brought South Dakota to its present high place in the union of states. Energy and persistence are the prime qualifications which have won for him a most enviable position in the state. Few indeed are the enterprises for state development either upon educational or material lines in which he has not been prominently identified. As teacher, school superintendent and publisher of the state's leading educational journal he has made his impress upon the educational policy of the state for all of the period of statehood and before. As a legislator he introduced and pressed to passage the present efficient law for the inspection of food stuffs and dairy products, as well as many other important pieces of legislation. As a loyal citizen of his own city he organized the movement for the removal of the capital from Pierre to Mitchell and was by his neighbors made the manager of the pending campaign for capital removal before the people.
Harry L Bras is the son of Charles Wadle Bras, a successful lawyer, and Mary Hannah DeMott, of South Bend, Indiana. He therefore possesses that mixture of French and German blood which has produced so many strong and notable men. His parents located at Toolsboro, Louisa county, Iowa, where Harry was born October 16, 1862. In 1867 his family removed to New Boston, Illinois, and there he received a thorough common and high-school education and then took a course in the Illinois State Normal University and later completed his studies in the University of South Dakota. For three years he engaged in teaching in Illinois and then' locating at Mount Vernon, Davison county, South Dakota, he took up a tract of government land, but continued to teach for three years, at the end of which period he was elected county superintendent of schools. The country was new, the school system crude, lacking in uniformity and coherence, but he set to work promptly to reduce it to a practicable working system and soon secured the adoption of a uniform course of study, free text-books, raised the standard of teaching and gave to the schools and the teachers an enthusiastic interest in the work. He held the position three terms and declined a fourth nomination to engage in the publication of the South Dakota Educator, the official organ of all the state educational bodies. He still is the publisher of this journal, as well as of the South Dakotan, the organ of the State Historical Society, and the School Board Journal. By his energy and industry he has built up a large and profitable printing establishment and publishing house. From 1890 to 1896 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Madison Normal and for a portion of the time president of the board. From 1898 to 1902 he was a member of the state legislature. He has from the beginning been an active member of the State Educational Association and of the Teachers' and Pupils' Reading Circles and much of the. time one of the administrative officers of these bodies. Since 1892 he has been postmaster of Mitchell and is also the treasurer of the Commercial Fire Insurance Company.
On September 2, 1885, Harry Bras was married to Miss Hattie Betts, of Mount Vernon, and to them four daughters have been born, Elsie Louise, Lillian, Florence and Sarah. Hattie Bras died in Dec 1903. In the prime of his manhood, Mr. Bras, with state-wide acquaintance and unstinted popularity, is still but at the beginning of that career of usefulness and honor which his unflagging industry, integrity and ability give assurance that the community will require at his hands.
Contributor: Heather Hall (48030601)
Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), p 1171-1172.
(Note: An error in his father's name has also been corrected below. This South Dakota biography did not include his 2nd marriage at the age of 42 to Pearl Isabelle Phillips in 1904 and the birth of two more children, Frank and Mary Emma both born also in Menno, South Dakota. It also didn't include his life after he moved from South Dakota to the state of Washington. There he became a prominent newspaper owner and editor of the Centralia Chronicle in Centralia, WA.
HARRY L. BRAS, educator, legislator, publisher, postmaster, promotor, politician and all-round good citizen, is a leader among the representative young men who have brought South Dakota to its present high place in the union of states. Energy and persistence are the prime qualifications which have won for him a most enviable position in the state. Few indeed are the enterprises for state development either upon educational or material lines in which he has not been prominently identified. As teacher, school superintendent and publisher of the state's leading educational journal he has made his impress upon the educational policy of the state for all of the period of statehood and before. As a legislator he introduced and pressed to passage the present efficient law for the inspection of food stuffs and dairy products, as well as many other important pieces of legislation. As a loyal citizen of his own city he organized the movement for the removal of the capital from Pierre to Mitchell and was by his neighbors made the manager of the pending campaign for capital removal before the people.
Harry L Bras is the son of Charles Wadle Bras, a successful lawyer, and Mary Hannah DeMott, of South Bend, Indiana. He therefore possesses that mixture of French and German blood which has produced so many strong and notable men. His parents located at Toolsboro, Louisa county, Iowa, where Harry was born October 16, 1862. In 1867 his family removed to New Boston, Illinois, and there he received a thorough common and high-school education and then took a course in the Illinois State Normal University and later completed his studies in the University of South Dakota. For three years he engaged in teaching in Illinois and then' locating at Mount Vernon, Davison county, South Dakota, he took up a tract of government land, but continued to teach for three years, at the end of which period he was elected county superintendent of schools. The country was new, the school system crude, lacking in uniformity and coherence, but he set to work promptly to reduce it to a practicable working system and soon secured the adoption of a uniform course of study, free text-books, raised the standard of teaching and gave to the schools and the teachers an enthusiastic interest in the work. He held the position three terms and declined a fourth nomination to engage in the publication of the South Dakota Educator, the official organ of all the state educational bodies. He still is the publisher of this journal, as well as of the South Dakotan, the organ of the State Historical Society, and the School Board Journal. By his energy and industry he has built up a large and profitable printing establishment and publishing house. From 1890 to 1896 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Madison Normal and for a portion of the time president of the board. From 1898 to 1902 he was a member of the state legislature. He has from the beginning been an active member of the State Educational Association and of the Teachers' and Pupils' Reading Circles and much of the. time one of the administrative officers of these bodies. Since 1892 he has been postmaster of Mitchell and is also the treasurer of the Commercial Fire Insurance Company.
On September 2, 1885, Harry Bras was married to Miss Hattie Betts, of Mount Vernon, and to them four daughters have been born, Elsie Louise, Lillian, Florence and Sarah. Hattie Bras died in Dec 1903. In the prime of his manhood, Mr. Bras, with state-wide acquaintance and unstinted popularity, is still but at the beginning of that career of usefulness and honor which his unflagging industry, integrity and ability give assurance that the community will require at his hands.
Contributor: Heather Hall (48030601)
Inscription
BRAS - HARRY LEONARD 1862 - 1940 / PEARL ISABELLE 1883-1955
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The gravesite is in close proximity to his wife, Pearl's parents, George/Emma PHILLIPS, their children Frank/Bea BRAS, Mary/Frank TOBINSKI and two grandchildren Frank/Jean TOBINSKI and Harry/Barb TOBINSKI.
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