Faulk County, South Dakota - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 15 of those read), 1909 (part 2 of 3)

Mr. McDearmon returned to Chicago after his discharge from the army. On November 30th, 1865, there he was united in marriage to Miss Charlotte Ann Russell of Chicago, 111., and immediately took up his residence in Sterling in that state. To Mr. and Mrs. McDearmon have been born five children, viz, Hattie, who died when eleven years of age; Mabel, who died in infancy; Harry E., who is a citizen of Faulkton and is married to Miss Nora Purcell of DeVoe, in this county. (He is station agent for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad company in this city.) Allie, now Mrs. C. A. E. Whitton of the town of Fairview in this county, Ruby, who makes her home with her parents while for the last eight years she has been engaged as stenographer and typewriter in the law office of Frank Turner, Esq., in this city and is holding the office of notary public.

Mr. McDearmon, since 1883, has been a resident of Faulk county, and identified with its social and political affairs, and for four years was clerk of courts for this county. He is a contractor and builder and has done a good business in this city and the surrounding countrj- .

ARTHUR W. PHPXPS was born in Colfax, Wisconsin, February 11, 1873, and on July 11th, 1896, he was united in marriage to Miss Susie Howell of Deer Creek, Minnesota. To them has been born one child, Coila, born September 7, 1897. In 1902 he removed to South Dakota and engaged in the lumber and coal business at Holmquist, in Day county. In 1906 Mr. Phelps became a citizen of Faulkton where he has since resided and on January 1st, 1909, he entered into partnership with Mr. A. D. Griff ee and engaged in the general real estate business'. Mr. Phelps is a veteran of the Spanish-American War. He was a sergeant of Company F., 14th Minnesota Regiment, and was appointed brigade quartermaster sergeant of the 30th Brigade Second Division First Army Corps, and is quartermaster sergeant of the 4th South Dakota Infantry. Mr. Phelps is a member of the Masonic order and of the B. P. O. E. and the Modern Brotherhood of America.

FRANK A. PANGBURN was born on December 10th, 1856, in Fayette county, Iowa. His home with his parents was on a farm, yet he enjoyed an excellent opportunity for an education, completing a collegiate and commercial course and graduating from the Upper Iowa University.

After being engaged in teaching school for one year, in 1882 he came to Spink county, Dakota Territory, and located government land and then went to LeRoy, Minn., and engaged in teaching for six months.

In 1883, Mr. Pangburn came to Faulk county and took a homestead six miles west of Faulkton, and for four years, while he was holding down his homestead he was engaged in the real estate business at Faulkton. On June 21st, 1887, he was united in marriage to. Miss Minnie M. Johnson, from Cedar county, Iowa. To them have been born six children, viz: Jessie M., Paul W., Frank J., Mer- rill W., and a son and daughter who died in infancy. Soon after his marriage Mr. Pangburn moved on a farm one mile north of Faulkton where he has since resided.

At the first general election in 1884, after the organization of Faulk county, Mr. Pangburn was elected clerk of court, but the presiding judge exercised his authority under the territorial organization and appointed a personal friend from Iowa to fill that position. In 1889 he became superintendent of the Faulkton public schools, and after teaching for four years he was elected county superintendent of the schools, which office he successfully filled for four years. Since that time he has been engaged in farming and stock raising and in teaching school winters.

While Mr. Pangburn is a loj'al and influential member of the republican party he has never sought preferment, yet he has always been interested in the advancement of all educational interests.

Socially, Mr. Pangburn is a member of the order of United Workmen and the Degree of Honor, also a member of the Modern Brotherhood of America and at the present time is president of the latter organization.

EDWARD CHAPMAN was born in Tioga county, New York, December 20, 1852 and at the age of fourteen removed with his parents to Cedar county, Iowa, where he remained until the fall of 1882. when he came to this county and located a claim and built a shanty, after which he returned to Iowa. On February 15th, 1883, the land having come onto tlie market, he returned to Huron, Beadle county, and filed on the land and returned to Iowa for his family and on the 27th of March, was on the south-east

Upon his arrival there he found that somebody had appropriated and removed the roof from his shanty and that it was already occupied by at least four feet of snow. After eating their dinner in the beautiful Dakota sunshine beside the shanty, and removing the snow from the inside, the roof of Judge Derr's unoccupied shanty was appropriated and a completed home was occupied that night. Upon the arrival of his old friend and neighbor, Judge Derr, lumber had been bought and was on the ground for a roof to his depleted shanty.

Mr. Chapman was married in Cedar county, Iowa, to Miss Sara C Golden, who was born in Pennsylvania, their mairiage occuring September 2nd, 1875. To them was born January 5, 1882, a son, Delbert, who now resides with his parents, a source of great comfort to them.

Mr. Chapman in common with nearly all the pioneer settlers became perfectl}- familiar with privation, exposure and all the trials attendant upon drouth, hail and . storm, and suffered total loss of crops in 1888-89, yet he was able to adapt himself to the changing circumstances and conditions, and when, through climatic changes and larger experience, the door to abundant prosperity stood open, he was prepared to enter in.

He has now at least four thousand dollars' worth of Norman Percheron horses and two thousand dollars' worth of neat stock, is satisfied with his experience in Dakota, and believes that it has been and still is among the most desirable places for a home and to accumulate property in the great north-west.

Mr. Deady is now located upon the north-west of section 14, township 118, range 70 and has a fine farm and extra good farm buildings. Ninety-five acres are under cultivation, the remainder being in inclosed pasture.

He has refused seven thousand dollars for this farm, but on account of a year's severe sickness, sold the most of his personal property and spent the winter of 1908-9 in the south.

but with the completion of a barn for Ernest Hulet and the fine Faulk County Abstract Co. building, with I. Allen Cornwell manager, it has passed the experimental stage and become an established business.

ALEXANDER GARRICK was born January 8th, 1844, in Delaware county, New York, where he resided, enjoying all the advantages peculiar to country life, in that old and well settled part of the country until he removed to the west in 1878.

In December, 1867, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Cowen and to them' have been born five children, viz: James C, Isabella C., William R., Alex A., and Georgia May, who died when four years of age. The others are all valued citizens of South Dakota. William R. is now deputy sheriff of Faulk county and Alex A. cashier of the Security State Bank of Faulkton.

In the spring of 1883 Mr. Garrick came to Faulk county and located near Cresbard. Fifteen years ago he bought and moved onto theE. C. Sage farm one mile from Faulkton. This farm was bought for $1,400 and a few days ago sold for $6,400, a clear profit of $5,000. F'or the last five years Mr. Garrick has resided in the city of Faulkton. He has been elected to the board of county commissioners several times. He has taken a great interest in public affairs and at the age of 64 is a well preserved, active

On January 8th, 1909, his life partner, the mother of his children, after several months of lingering sickness, passed to the great beyond, loved and respected by her family and her numerous friends.

DOCTOR J. P. RATHBUN was one of the first settlers in Fanlk county and was successful in his . practice as a physician and when the settlers by reason of drougths and failures of crops were unable to pay for his services, he was as ready to respond to every call, as though they had the money, and many a poor family have reason to remember him with gratitude, for his visits of mercy, to minister to the wants of the sick and suflfering.

SAMUEL LOY, son of Samuel and Barbara (Henry) Loy, was born in Stinesville, Berks county, Pennsylvania, November 27th, 1853. The family is of German descent and was lounded in the Keystone state at an early day in the history of this country. When four years old he removed with his parents to Schuykill county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared on a farm and attended the county schools, until seventeen years pf age, when he returned to Lehigh county and devoted tsvo years to learning the miller's trade. His salary the first year was forty dollars and the second one hundred and fifty dollars. He was engaged

In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Janet Faust, who was of German descent and reared in Berks county. To them have been born two children, viz: Charles Samuel and Eafl Richard. The oldest was the first boy to grow up in Faulk county and graduate in any school, he being a graduate from the Northern Indiana law school.

On l3aving his native state Mr. lyoy in 1876 went to Kansas, where he was employed for one year as a house carpenter and during the following four years was engaged in the milling business at Fort Iveavenworth and Norton - ville in that state, then after being on a farm for one year, he removed to Faulk county, Dakota Territory, in 1883, and on the 15th of March in that year took up his residence upon the present farm, being the first to locate in that township. Mr. lyOy has had a full share of the hardships and privations, with hail and storm of the early and inexperienced pioneer settler, with the nearest market thirtyfive miles away.

He has been actively engaged in farming and stock raising, and has three hundred and sixty acres of valuable improved land located four and a half miles from the Chicacago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad station in the village of Orient. He has also four hundred and eighty acres of rented land in an inclosed pasture, and is wintering nineteen head of horses, seventy-six head of neat stock, forty hogs and a big lot of chickens.

Upon coming upon his farm he built a house 16x22; additions were made to this until he had a comfortable home, a good barn, a granary 24 by 34, acorn crib 8 by 42, hog house 36 by 18, chicken house 40 by 15, and an artesian w^ell 1122 feet deep with a good ilow of water and 1200 feet of pipeing to carry water to his buildings and pastures.

Four years ago a tornado destroyed his barn, thereupon a new one was erected, 64 by 64 and 16 foot posts, and in the summer of 1908 he erected a new house 32 by 32, two stories, with concrete cellar under the whole house, six rooms on the first floor and five on the second, and a garret with three large dormer windows, where four more rooms could be finished if needed, to which, another year, steam heat and all modern improvements are to be added.

Mr. Loy is deeply interested in public affairs, especially on educational lines; has held several school offices. He has twice been nominated for county sheriff, and once for county treasurer, receiving more than the party vote, but the county being overwhelmingly republican, and he, a democrat, failed of election.

FRANCIS M. RAMSDELL, son of William and Mary A. (Nixon) Ramsdell, was born August 18, 1862, in Osage, Mitchell county, Iowa, and removed with his parents to Moody county. South Dakota, in 1879, and in April, 1884, located on the north-east quarter of section 7, township 117, range 71.

On December 25th, 1883, Mr. Ramsdell was united in marriage to Miss A. Laura Smith, who was born in Batavia, Jefferson county, Iowa, on January 18, 1868. To them have been born six children, viz: William Francis, born December 18, 1884; Claud Leonard, born October 27, 1888; Sarah Leone, born December 14, 1892; John Wesley, born July 5, 1896; Delia Estella, born July 21, 1898, and Earle Vern, born August 19, 1907.

In addition to his homestead right, Mr. Ramsdell has located a tree claim entry upon the adjoining north-west quarter of the same section, which subsequently he proved up, giving him three hundred and twenty acres of v-aluable land. In the fall of 1891 Mr. Ramsdell moved with his young family to Moody county, but in the fall of 1893 he returned to his home in this county, happy and contented to again become a resident of central South Dakota. Here he remained satisfied with his farm life until the fall of 1902, when he being- the republican candidate, was elected to the oihce of register of deeds for Faulk county, the requirements of his office necessitating the removal of his family to Faulkton. In 1904 Mr. Ramsdell was re-elected to the same office, rendering in all four years of faithful and successful service. For the better opportunit}- of educating his children, he continued his residence in his pleasant and commodious home at the county seat, and is now one of the successful business men of Faulkton.

A. M. STRACHAN was born in in S.cotland, June 17, 1850, and immigrated to the United States of America in 1880 and located in the state of Illinois. In 1883 he moved to Faulk county, South Dakota, and located upon the south-west quarter of section 14, township 119, range 67 where he resided until 1896 when he located upon his tree claim on the south-east quarter of section 19, township 119, range 66 where he now resides.

Mr. Strachan was married in Kalmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, to Miss Catherine Walsh, on September 25, 1873. To them have been born four children, viz: Samuel, born at Kalmarnock, Scotland, September 1, 1874; Jane, born at Kalmarnock, March 2, 1877; Jessie M., born at Kalmarnock, May 22, 1879 and Thomas W., born at DeVoe, Faulk county. South Dakota, December 26, 1891.

Mr. Strachan is a practical mechanic and has worked at his trade as contractor and builder in connection with carrying on his farm. He was one of the early settlers of Faulk county to be contented with the amount of land he could successfully improve. He has built up a good home with a well cultivated farm and is counted among our successful and prosperous pioneer farmers.

Mr. Strachan always took a great interest in public affairs and an active part in the county and state organization. A particular interest in public schools and in securing an education for his children.

JOHN A. BIXLER was born May 23rd, 1863, in Stevenson county, Illinois, where he resided until March, 1894, he then removed to Faulk county. South Dakota, and located about three miles north of Orient. Nine years ago he secured his present home, two miles east of Faulkton, where he now resides.

Mr. Bixler is engaged in stock farming, keeping on an average some two hundred head of neat cattle and is counted among our valuable and enterprising citizens. Mr. Bixler has serv^ed the count3' as county cattle inspector, is in politics a democrat and is to be commended for standing by his political convictions in a county that is overwhelmingly republican.

THOMAS PURCELL was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1837. He was of Irish descent. Subsequenth' he went to Medina, New York, where he was employed until his enlistment in the 28th New York Infantry, to serve in the rebellion, on May 22, 1861. On September 17, 1862 at the battle of Antietam he was seri-

After his recovery he served for three years as a government agent. Then he w^as a railroad conductor in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad on the run from Cincinnatti to Dayton.

Mr. Purcell moved to DeKalb county, 111., and was among the first settlers in that county, where he was successful in farming and stock raising. In the fall of 1882, Mr. Purcell located land in Faulk county, and while he had interests that required his presence part of the time at Athol, Spink county, he held down the government land securing three valuable quarter sections under the then existing land laws. From 1885 up to the time of his death on September 22, 1900, he was one of the successful, prosperous farmers and stock raisers of Faulk county. While Mr. Purcell was one of Faulk county's leading and progressive farmers he was one of her reliable and active business men, taking an interest in the financial and political prosperity of our county.

On December 23, 1863, Mr. Purcell was united in marriage with Miss Emma Kline of Frederick City, Maryland, who proved a devoted wife and mother. To them were born seven children. Soon after the birth of the voungest in 1879, she was called to surrender all the care and responsibility of her family into the hands of her devoted husband and take the journey to the unknown land from which none ever return, a duty which future events prove was well performed. After his family was grown up and several of them gone to hoihes of their own; the summons came and the mortal was called to put on immortali- ty. His children who were then Mrs. J. A. Winerd of Northville, (now of the state of Washington); Mrs. W. T. Jackraan, of DeVoe; Mrs. W. J. Price and Joseph T. Purcell of Fargo, North Dakota; Mrs. Nora McDearmon of Faulkton, Miss Maud Purcell now postmaster of Cresbard and Miss Ros? Purcell, of this city.

which urtder his able management yearly become more valuable, for some time his failing health became a constant admonition but neither his family, nor the members of the Phil. H. Sheridan G. A. R., of which he was an honored member, realized that the end was so near and not until the end came did his family, friends or the community realize the large place he had filled.

WILLIAM B. VINTON was born March 11, 1852, in Wabash county, Indiana. Before his majority his parents removed to Kendell county, 111., and from there to Berrian county, Michigan.

On July 2, 1872, he w-as tmited in marriage to Emily E. Colson, of Tama county, Iowa. There they continued to reside until 1884 when they came to Faulk county, Dakota Territory. To them have been born seven children » viz: Elmer I.,Alvin J.. Floy M. , Frank S., Maude V., Charles S., and Willard D.

On July 2nd, 1884 he filed a preemption claim on the north-east quarter of section 23, township 119, range 72. After proving up his preemption he used his homestead right on the north-west quarter of the same section and on the north-east (juarter of section fourteen in the same towni?i?ES:.. M-saB * ship, he located a tree claim. After proving up his title to all the above government land, in 1892 they removed to Faulkton, on account of better advantages for educating their children and since that time have remained in the city, Mr. Vinton politically is identified with the republican party and alwaj^s takes an interest in local political affairs. He is a member of the Independent Order of the Odd Fellows. Mrs. Vinton is a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church in Faulkton.

REV. J. K. FREELAND. Among the pioneer settlers of Faulk countv Mr. Freeland and his young wife occupied an important position while holding down their homestead claim. They always had a good and encouraging word for everyone. It was in the summer of 1896 that I became more intimately acquainted with them, and learned to appreciate their earnest purpose, and active work among the pioneer settlers of our new settlement and as a well deserved tribute, and to bring out one remarkable event with which they were connected, I incorporate this tribute of respect, in the history of Faulk county. They have long since removed from this state and are counted among the useful and influential educators of California. Among the many with wlrom I have been acquainted and with whom I have associated this young Free Methodist minister and his educated, christian wife holds no second place.

Among the many that I located upon government land in 1884 and 1885, was Mr. and Mrs. We.stfall and their niece, upon claims adjoining Mr. Freeland's. After a time Mrs. Westfall, who was quite advanced in years, was taken sick, and that she might receive better care and nursing-, she was removed to her niece's shanty which was almost within speaking distance. Subsequently I was sent for to transact some legal business for Mrs. Westfall and found her confined to the bed and unable to move or change her position without assistance. After performing the work for which mv presence had been requested and getting ready to leave I was requested by her niece to look at Mrs. Westfall's feet, and uix)n doing so found them swollen almost beyond recognition and from the toe nails extending up into her foot, to my unpracticed eye. the blood had settled and dissolution had already commenced. While explaining to the niece what I thought, she heard her aunt call and going to the bed received this, to her ren.iarkable request, that she "Send for Elder Freeland at once to come and pray for her recovery, and that she would get well." Her request was promptly granted. As soon as Mr. and Mrs. Freeland arrived they were told for what purpose their presence was requested. Subsequently Mr. Freeland told me that he then experienced one of the hardest struggles of his life; that as he believed her to be in a dying condition, if not already death struck, his first thought was that it w^ould be sacrilegious to pray for her recovery, but while endeavoring to frame appropriate words to explain his position, it came to him as plainly as though audibly spoken, "it is not my faitli but liers." Instantlv he fell upon his knees and earnest and persistent pleadings, both by himself and Mrs. Freeland, went up to iMmighty Ood for the speedy recovery of the sick woman. Soon

" I certainly feel a great deal better," and before night, Mrs. Westfall was out of bed and sitting in a cliair. After her husband had proved up on his homestead, she removed to Faulkton and subsequently returned to New York where she died.

These facts coming under my personal knowledge and observation so impressed me that I have related them to both religious and irreligious, to the learned and to the unlearned, and after all that has or could be said pro and con, I believe it to be as really and truly a manifestation of the power of Almighty God as was ever performed by the lowly Nazarene, and worthy to be classed as one of the most remarkable incidents in the historv of Faulk county.

OTIS A. SWIFT was born in Chautauqua county, state of New York, on September 15, 1857. His father, Jewel C. Swift, was a farmer and lived on the same farm from the time he was two years of age vuitil he was sixty years of age. He was of English descent and his grandfather, Jacob Swift, purchased the old farm and settled upon it when Chautauqua county was a wilderness. Mr. Swift's mother was of Irish descent, though the family came to this countrv several generations before she was born. Her father was a Baptist preacher.

Mr. Swift was the second child in a family of four boys, and was reared on the old farm. He enjoved good educational advantages so far as they were supplied b\- the common free public schools of that day, and at the age of sixteen entered the Forestville Academy, and after a three year's course there, at tlie age of nineteen he taught his first term of school, nnd from 1876 to 1888 he taught evcr>- winter, and during three years of that time he taught the entire year through. Until 1883 he was attending school, teaching school and farming.

In March, 1883, he came to Dakota Territory, and from Mellette ti;aveled overland to F'aulk county, where he preempted the south-west quarter of section 30, township 120, north of range 67. He erected a board shanty and with his partner, John Day, broke fift>' acres of land and put into crop. Between them they owned a team, wagon, breaking plow and harrow. Mr. Swift worked during the summers on his claim and returned to New York during the winters, where he taught school. In 1885 he and his partner bought the south-west quarter of section 25, township 120, range 68, and moved the shanty onto this land. At the time he took up his first quarter section and built the shanty, there were but three others in sight, and now within two miles eighty fine farm residences can be seen.

Mr. Swift now owns five hundred and sixty acres of land^ two hundred and thirty of which are under cultivation with a fine set of farm buildings, located only one mile from the new and growing village of Cresbard, an important station on the Minneapolis & St. L,ouis railroad. Three hundred and thirty acres of unbroken prairie is devoted to pasture, and though until 1892 he gave his attention chiefly to grain growing, since that time he has turned his attention largely to stock. He has been keeping a good herd of neat stock, horses and sheep. With other pioneer farmers, Mr. Swift has had a full share of hardships and privations, failure of crops, fire and storms. In 1889 he decided to remove to Mellette and accept a position as principal of the public schools of that city for two years.

Since his retvtrn to his farm, by the introduction of nearly four hundred artesian well, with their abundant flow of water into the county, preventing the possibility of another siege of drought and a better knowledge of the climatic conditions, success and prosperity have steadily followed.

On March 27th, 1888, Mr. Swift was united in marriage with Miss Julia H. Bryant. Mrs. Swift was born on a farm in Buchanan county, Iowa. Her father, N. B. Bryant, is a native of Ohio, of German descent and an early settler of the state of Iowa. Mrs. Swift is one of a family of four children and came to Dakota in 1885. To Mr. and Mrs. Swift have been born two children, viz: Clare, born July 22, 1880, and Martin, born October, 1892.

In political views Mr. Swift is a republican, and takes an active interest in local affairs. He is widely known and respected throughout Faulk county.

FREMONT YOUNG was born in Clearfield, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, August 14th, 1861, and is the oldest of a family of fotir children, whose parents were John C. and Elizabeth (Brickley) Young, also natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent. By occupation the father was a lumberman in the east, but after the removal of his family to Iowa in 1872, he followed agricultural pursuits. Mr. Young's great grandfather, John A. Young, emigrated from Germany prior to the Revolutionary War and was one of the men who fought so b^a^'ely for the colonies in that conflict.

On starting out for him.self at the age of nineteen years, I'Vemont Young entered the office of the Atlantic Telegraph at Atlantic, Iowa, to learn the printers trade and served a three year's apprenticeship.

In 1884 he came to Miller, Hand county. Dakota Territory, and was employed on the Miller Press until 1888. when he went to Huron, Beadle county, as a. foreman on the Daily News. After the failure of that paper in the fall of 1888 he came to Faulkton and worked on the Faulkton Record for one year. At the end of that time he and A. E. Evans purchased the Faulk County Democrat and changed the name to the Faulk County Republican . which they conducted for four years. Until the fall of 1897 Mr. Young; was identified with the publication of different papers in Faulkton. In 1897 he was appointed to the office of po.stma.ster at Faulkton, which office he filled for four years. ITpon his resignation, his wife, Eva M. Young, was appointed to fill the vacancy and is now the popular and successful postmaster in this city after five years service in that important position.

In 1889 Mr. Young wedded Miss Mary E. Kendall, who was born and reared in the state of Missouri, and is a daughter of D. F. Kendall, who was a farmer and an early settler in Faulk county. To them have been born two children, viz: Pearl J., now fifteen years old, and Madeline B., age twelve.

In his political views, Mr. Young is a pronounced republican, and is now editor of the Faulkton Advocate and has always taken quite an influential part in local politics. He has served as delegate to numerous county conventions of his party, and was a delegate to the republican state convention in 1892. He was also elected alderman of

C. C. MOUIvTON. The records of the lives of our forefathers are of interest to the modern citizen, not only for their historical value but also for the inspiration and example they afford, yet we need not look to the past; although surroundings may, differ the essential conditions of human life are ever the same, and a man can learn from the success of those around him if he will heed the obvious lessons contained in their history.

One of the most successful men in Faulkton, South Dakota, was C. C. Moulton, and through his entire business career he was looked upon as a model of integrity and honor, never making a contract that he did not fulfill, and standing as an example of what determination and force, combined with the highest degree of business integrity can accomplish for a man of natural ability and strength of character.

Mr. Moulton was born in Hartford, Connecticut, December 3rd, 1835, and was the son of Spencer and Cloe (Willingston) Moulton, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of West Springfield, Massachusetts, where their marriage was celebrated. Both were of English descent and belonged to 'families which were founded in this country prior to the Revolutionary War, in which struggle some of the ancestors of our subject, on the maternal side, took part. The father was a paper and powder maker bv trade, invented the machine for sifting powder,

Mr. Moulton was next to the youngest in a family of twelve children and was principally reared in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the age of eight years he commenced attending the common schools of Boston, and remained in tliat city until twenty-five years of age, which time was devoted to the study of architecture with different contractors, as he was a natural builder.

He then went to Springfield where he worked two years in the Wasson car manufacturing shops, and at the end of that time embarked in business on his own account, as a contractor and builder, being thus engaged in that cit>' for twenty-two years. The largest building he constructed was the Barney & Berry skate factory at Springfield. He made the plans for the reform school in Hampden county, Massachusetts. In July, 1861, he removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he erected the Kockendall building, owned by H.W. Phelps, at a cost of sixteen thousand dollars and during his .stay there of two years he erected several other expensive buildings.

Mr. Moulton was joined by his family in Minneapolis in 1882 and in March of the following year came to Faulk county, Dakota Territory, to recuperate and locate his son, W. C. Moulton, on a farm. At that time Faulkton contained but one store and there was no railroads west of Redfield. All of his goods and supplies were hauled from Mellette, in Spink county, l)Ut in two weeks from the time he arrived at that place he had a six room house erected upon the land he had entered in Faulk county.

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then removed to Faulkton where he had since made his home, being engaged in loaning money and looking after his property interests. Mr. Moulton had large interests in land and houses which together with his money interests required careful attention. ,

Out of sixty contractors in Springfield, Massachussetts, he and one other contractor were the only ones who survived the panic of 1872, and were able to meet all their obligations. He still owns a block of tenement houses and a store building in that place, and for the past year the most of his time was spent in the east visiting and looking after his many interests.

In 1862 Mr. Moulton married Miss Susan C. Chapin who was born in Warehouse Point, Connecticut, where her father, Henry Chapin, owned and operated the ferry between Warehouse Point and Wirisor Locks, but later was in the boot and shoe business at Springfield, Massachusetts, where she was reared. Her early ancestors were among the Puritans who came to New England in the Mayflower in 1620. She is of the ninth generation, in descent from Governor William Bradford who was for thirty years governor of the Plymouth Colony.

Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Moulton, only one, W. C. Moulton, is living. He is married and has one child, and was in the employ of the Great Northern railroad at Pipestone, Minnesota, for more than twelve years, and is now located in the pleasant home upon his fine farm near Cresbard in this county.

Since casting his first vote for John C. Fremont in 1856, Mr. Moulton was a staunch supporter of the republican party and served as chairman of the first republican county convention ever held in Faulk county. For two years he was a member of the board of trustees of the state reform school and in the spring of 1898 was elected mayor of the city of Faulkton, an honor entirely unsolicited on his part. The reins of city government were never in more capable hands, as he was a public spirited and progressive citizens, willing to do all in his power for the public good of the community.

He was a member of the Masonic order since 1864 and formerly affiliated with the Knights of Honor and the Knights of Pythias. At the age of eighteen he united with the Methodist Episcopal church, but since coming to Dakota Territory he was a member of the Congregational church. He took an active part in religious affairs, assisting in building the first church in Faulk county, and served as superintendent of several Sunday schools. His estimable wife also took an active interest in Simday school and church work, and on account of their sterling worth and many excellences of character, both were held in high regard. Mrs. Moiilton is past department commander of the Woman's Relief Corps of South Dakota.

Infantry and served three full years. In 1866 he married. Miss Julia Teachant of Cambridge, Illinois. Subsequently he moved to Faulk county. South Dakota, where he has.

EDWIN McCOMB was born October 4, 1840, in Ontario count s^ New York. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army, in Company F., 126th Regiment, New York Voluntesr Infantry and remained in service until the muster out of the regiment in 1865. While serving in the eastern division or army of the Patomac, he was wounded at Martins Ford in 1863. He experienced a full share of the work that made the record of that celebrated regiment. After his return from the army he married Miss Catherine Bruglen of Ontario county, New York. In 1882 he came to South Dakota and in the spring of 1883 located in what is now the town of Fairview in Faulk county, where he has since resided. He has lately sold his homestead for $6000.00 and is living with his sister near his old home where his wife died March 10, 1896.

Mr. McComb has had the experience of the average pioneer settler. First hardship, privation and want, followed by abundant prosperity. He is a devoted Dakotian and interested in all that makes it one of the American Union of States.

J. S. NEVINS was born February 26th, 1843, in the state of Vermont and enjoyed the advantages of the common school education. Left Vermont in his childhood with his parents to reside in Wisconsin. From Wisconsin lie moved to the state of Iowa. After a residence of fourteen years in Iowa he came to South Dakota in the spring 1885 and located in Faulk county, in what is now the town of Sherman, about one mile from the present town of Onaka, where he has since resided. On January 1st, 1864, foe married Miss Margaret Kelley. To them have been

Mr. Nevins has a farm of three hundred and twenty acres of valuable land, ninety acres of which are under cultivation, good farm buildings, and well watered. He now keeps nine horses. Eighteen months ago Mr. Nevins left his farm and went into the livery business at Onaka, where he has a large livery barn and has just completed a fine residence.

He has filled town offices and was for four years one of the board of county commissioners from the third commissioner district of Faulk county. Mr. Nevins is counted among the best and most influential pioneer settlers.

In November, 1905, he married Miss Hannah Reynolds and to them has been born one child. He is now well established in the hotel business in the best hotel in Faulk county, at Onaka, and is doing a prosperous business and proving to the public that he is an experienced and practical hotel man,.

JAMES F. NESTOR was born in Caledonic county. Minnesota, on the 20th of March, 1868. He came to Faulk county in June, 1884, and located on the northeast quarter of section 21, township 120, range 70, in the town of Enterprise.

cessful pioneer settlers of Faulk county, has good farm buildings and farm machinery, eighteen horses, thirty-five head of neat stock and fifty hogs.

He has served on the board of county commissioners for four years, and is counted among the reliable business' men of north-western Faulk count3^

ALLEN LAW was born in 1868 in Scotland and came to America with his parents in 1869 and located in the state of Maryland. In 1871 moved to Lacona, Iowa, and in the spring of 1886 removed to Faulk county. South Dakota and located in the township of Clark and when twelve years of age moved to what is now the town of Enterprise. On October 16th, 1901, he married Miss Anna Freitag who was born in Ireland. To them have been born three children, viz: Allen Jr., Robert and Donald,

Mr. Law has one quarter section of land with good farm buildings, adjoining the townsite of Carlyle. He has twelve horses, twenty-five head of neat stock, ten hogs, and is counted among the enterprising and successful pioneer farmers of north-west Faulk county.

GEORGE G. RILEY was born in Wisconsin, July 30, 1863, and came to Mellette, in South Dakota, in 1882 and after a few months visited Faulk, Edmunds and Browm counties. Mr. Riley has seen much of central South Dakota with which he has been pleased . He was in Brown county six years and came to Onaka in July, 1907.

In 1888, Mr. Riley married Miss Addie May Moore and to them have been born eight children, viz: Maude, Grace, Blanche, Wesley, Ervin, Ora, Mabel and Ervia. Mr. Rilev is now doing a good livery business at Onaka.

HERMAN BERG was born in Germany on November 18th, 1867, came to America in 1886, locating in the state of Iowa. Removed to Faulk county, South Dakota in the spring of 1893 and took a homestead on the north-east quarter of section 33, township 120, range 72, in the town of Sherman.

'On October of 1896 he married Mrs. Kate Heil. To them has been born two children, twins. He has now added to his homestead another quarter section of valuable land. He has good farm buildings, and one hundred acres under cultivation.

Mr. Berg has rented his farm and moved to Onaka where he has built the best house in that village. He also has a pool and billiard parlor and is doing a flourishing business. Mr. Berg's home is furnished with hot water, heat and all modern improvements.

H. M. DAHL was born September 20, 1851, in Norway and emigrated to the United States in May, 1872. His first location was in Wisconsin. Subsequently he moved to Minnesota where he remained three years and then came to Faulk county, in April, 1885, and located on a homestead on the north-west quarter of section 29. township 118, range 71, where he has since resided. Mr. Dahl has had a full share of hardships and privations in his. pioneer life, sharing his home with a brother, father and sister. The father has since died.

With tlie changing years and changed conditions, prosperit\^ and comfort hav^e co-me, as it has to nearly all of the pioneer settlers of this country. He now is the possessor of 640 acres of valuable land, good farm buildings.

Mr. Dahl is one ef the most reliable and prosperous pioneer settlers of western Faulk county. He has been treasurer of the town of I^atham since its organization and is now road commissioner for that township.

. SELWYN WHITNEY was born January, 1847, in Allegany county. New York. At the age of 21 he went to Madison, Wisconsin. After a few years residence in Illinois and Kansas, he returned to Rockford, Illinois, where, on October 8th, 1874, he married Miss Louisa Weeks and to them have been born five children.

After ten years residence at Rockford he again visited Iowa and Kansas, and made a five year residence at Beatrice, Nebraska, but in in 1883 came to Faulk county where he has settled down for a permanent home.

He is a citizen of the town of Elroy, is chairman of the board of supervisors and is also on the school board and is active in all public affairs.

Mr. Whitney has one hundred and sixty acres of valuable l^nd, eighty-five acres under cultivation and the balance is an enclosed pasture of native grasses,

Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have now five children living, -one is married, one son who he claims is a native Dakotian, born in 1888, the year of the terrible blizzard, January 14th of that year. He stands six feet and one inch in his stockings and weighs 190 pounds.

pire state. Aiding in the work on the farm in the summer, and attending country school during the winter months. At the age of twenty-two he went upon the great lakes as a sailor and remained upon the water ten years, first as second, then first mate, and later as master of a vessel. In one storm upon Lake Erie, October 10th, 1880, the "Valentine" a three mast schooner upon which he was then sailing foundered about forty miles from Cleveland and went down. The crew left the vessel in a life boat, and after drifting about from one o'clock a. m. until five o'clock p.

At the age of twenty-eight Mr. Wallace was united in marriage to Miss Viola Graves who was born and reared at Madison, Ohio, and was educated in the common schools and in a seminary that has been turned into a home for the widows and nurses of the civil war. On the paternal side she is of English descent and the family can be traced back for eight hundred years. Her father was Corlton Graves > who was the owner of vessels and for many years sailed the lakes as mastsr both of sailing vessels and of steamers.

His father's family consisted of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters, of whom four sons have become sailors, and lake captains. The subject of this sketch has but one child, Blanche Estella, who is now twenty-one years old.

After his marriage Mr. Wallace purchased a farm near Madison, Ohio, though he occasionally made trips upon the lakes. His time was principally devoted to agricultural pursuits. He had an excellent farm with a stream running through it and improved with fine buildings and ten acres of fruit.

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Selling his place in the spring of 1S83, he came to Faulkton, in Dakota Territory, and took up a preemption in Faulk county. Previous to proving up, a man jumped his claim as a homestead and it went into lititagation where it remained for four years, Mr. Wallace being beaten in all the courts. Afterwards the homestead man left the claim, and after one year's absence Mr. Wallace filed on it as a homestead, 'having had possession of it for fifteen years prior to proving up. He also took a quarter section of land under the tree claim law which he proved up, all of which he has since sold.

The same year of his arrival he embarked in the hardwara and farm machinery business in Faulkton in a little building 20 by 40 feet. To meet the growing demand of his trade, he had to seek more commodious quarters, and now occupies a building 75 by 150 feet, well stocked with staple and fancy groceries, and all kinds of hardware and farm machinery.

During the early days the nearest railroad station was Athol, Spink county, a distance of thirty miles. At that time he also kept lumber, coal, flour and feed, and often had three or four teams on the road hauling supplies and one in constant use. In 1887 he also conducted a store at Millard, Faulk county, but his stock was destroyed by fire on the 4th of July, that year, with a loss of two thousand dollars. In the spring of 1886 he lost a house, granary, and five hundred bushels of wheat in the same way. This loss amounted to between five hundred and one thousand dollars. Notwithstanding the reverses he has steadily prospered in business since coming to Faulkton and is today one of the most substantial citizens of this city. He is a

In his political views Mr. Wallace is a democrat and has served as a delegate to the conventions of his party. He has been prominently identified with everything calculated to boom the interests of the town and county. The first Fourth of July celebration in Faulkton was held in his uncompleted storeroom which was the fourth buildingerected in the new town. He was appointed postmaster under President Arthur's administration and filled that office from 1885 to 1888. He was one of the first county commissioners elected in Faulk county, and served in that position for one term . Religiously he is a member of the Congregational church, and socially is affiliated with the Masons.

Mr. Wallace has his own peculiar business methods, in all his own business transactions. For forty-six years he has been his own banker, never having given a cheeky handling all his own money, keeping his own books and paying all his liabilities in cash, and in sixteen years,, prior to 1899, had taken in and paid out two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He has never been sued or sued any man and has never been in court as a witness but once, never uses tea, coffee, tobacco or liquor.

WILLIAM SPRINGATE THORN was born in Hillsdale county, Michigan, June 20th, 1857, where he remained with his mother until his marrriage, December 1st, 1880. His father gave up his life in the Union Army in 1864.

Upon coming to Faulk county in the spring of 1886, he was located by the author of this history on a preemption on section 19, township 118, range 72. As soon as he could prove up his preemption, he took a homestead and a tree claim, both of these he has proved up and now has three quarter sections of valuable land, upon which he resides, about one and one half miles west of the village of Seneca. One hundred and seventy acres of this land is under cultivation, the remainder is a fenced pasture of native grasses. He now has fourteen horses, fifty head of neat stock, all necessary improved farm machinery, good farm buildings, and his last year's crop in the granary.

Mr. Thorn came to Dakota with less than one thousand dollars. Now he has property worth $25,000.00 and stands among Faulk county's prosperous and influential farmers.

DANIEL W. PILLSBURY of Centerville, Faulk -county, was born in Canness, New Hampshire, on the 30th day of June, 1847. He was the only son of Jc^eph D. and Claracy (Abbot) Pillsbury. He lived thereuntil his enlistment in the 57th Illinois Regiment 'Volunteer Infantry, April 27th, 1861, for three vears. A re-enlistment in the veterans, extended his service until his final discharge, July 4th, 1865. After a residence in the state of Iowa for fifteen years, he came to this county and located upon the government land in township 118, range 67, which is the present town of Centerville. In the early years of pioneer life, his was little or no different from the common experience of those who early came to Faulk count}'. Hardships and privation was the lot of all. The years of failure of crops, the dry and hot wind, the repeated hail storms, the inexperience in combatting with new conditions, made one continuous struggle. The changing years brought change of conditions until prosperity has finally crowned his efforts, and at the age of sixty-one he stands among the happy, contented, prosperous farmers of Faulk county.

Mr. Pillsbur}^ recognizes the fact that in union there is strength and has full companionship with his comrades in the Grand Arm 3^ Post of which he is an active member. He is also a member of the Royal Arch Chapter Free and Accepted Masons at Faulkton, South Dakota.

WIL/IvIAM BELL is one of the early and active pioneers of west Faulk county. Has always been interested in political affairs and may always bfe depended upon to do good, square and upright work.

DOCTOR EDWARD ENSCH was born in Belgium, in 1846. Commenced his education in his native city, and after coming to the United States, studied in Chicago, Illinois. From there he located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and practiced his profession for a time with a good degree of success. In 1884 he came to Seneca, Faulk county and commenced the practice of medicine. Here he built a store, put in a stock of medicine together with general merchandise, and did a successful and profitable business, yet was alwa3'S ready to respond to a professional call.

Dr. Ensch politically is a democrat and soon after Cleveland's election in 1886 was appointed postmaster at Ellisville. In 1885 he married Mrs. Cathernie (Deisch) Tescher, of Wisconsin, and with him she removed to Illinois, and from there to his new home at Ellisville. For two years this proved a pleasant and successful home. Upon the coming of the railroad to Seneca, he resigned his office as postmaster, packed up his goods, placed his store upon wheels and took a six mile journey to Seneca, where he was soon reestablished in a prosperous and successful business.

Dr. Ensch is an active Mason and a member of the Faulkton Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. Professionally he is ready to attend to every call and to the poorest patient is a ready and faithful attendent.

MRS. CATHERINE (DEISCH) ENSCH was born of German parentage in the state of Wisconsin, on October 7th, 1855, where she enjoyed the advantages of a common school education. At the age of eighteen she married Peter Tescher with whom nearly ten years of very happy married life, under the most favorable circumstances, were enjoyed. Five years after his decease a second marriage was contracted with Doctor Hnsch and her real pioneer life commenced.

Mrs. Ensch has always been an active business woman. Her first husband left her with property and in comfortable circumstances and by careful and prudent management she has continued to look after her money matters with good success.

In the community in which she lives, Mrs. Ensch has many reliable and confiding friends and all with whom she has social or business relations hold her in high estimation and respect. She has succeeded remarkably in adapting herself to the v^arions conditions with which she is surrounded. While at ElHsville the duties of the postoffice and the store were taken up and quickly mastered, and the store at Seneca has always received her careful attention. Within the last year she has sold out her store at Seneca and invested in valuable land property between Faulkton and Orient, and is in the situation with less care and responsibility, to enjoy and see more of enjoyable relations of social life.

JOHN ELEENBECKER was born October 8th, 1849, in Sauk county, Wisconsin. In 1868 his father mov^ed to Sterns county, Minnesota, where he resided until he came to this county in 1885. On the 11th day of March, 1885, he located in township 117, range 72, and in the following fall his family, consisting of his wife and five children, came from Minnesota to EUisville to become permanent settlers in their new home. His wife's maiden name was Mary Fishback, whom he married in Minnesota in 1874- To them have been born nine children, seven of whom are now living, viz; John J., Peter, Mick. Frank, William, August, and Andrew.

Mr. Ellenbecker has a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one hundred and thirty acres of which are under cultivation. Fifteen years ago Mrs. EHenbecker died, leaving the young family to be cared for by their father. Through all these years his home has been maintained and the children well cared for. At the present time the youngest is in his eighteenth year. Three of the boys make their home with their father, the others have gone out to make homes for themselves, but all live in South Dakota. Mr. Ellenbecker has twenty-eight head of horses, forty-five head of neat stock and twenty-five hogs, and is counted among the well-to-do Faulk county pioneer farmers.

MRS. LOUISA THORN was born in Providence, Saratoga countv, New York, November 6th, 1830, and lived to the years of womanhood in that state. In 1850 she was united in marriage to Albert S. Thorn and in 1852 moved with her husband to Hillsdale county, Michigan, where she for years experienced the difficulties of pioneer life.

In July, 1861, Mr. Thorn enlisted in the army for the preservation of the American Union. He finished up his earthly career in January, 1862, dying in the army hospital at Lexington, Kentucky, Mrs. Thorn leaving her home and young children, hastened to join her husband at the hospital to soothe his dying hours.

After all was over Mrs. Thorn heroically returned to h^r lions an:l children and took up ths additional duties that her early widowhood placed upon her. With a family of five children, not a light or easy burden, in 1885 she . again started out to secure a home upon the Dakota government lands, to be followed by her now grown up and married sons, locating upon section 30, township 118, range 72, Mrs. Thorn faithfully performed the duties of a homesteader, living alone in her "shanty upon the claim," a claim she yet owns and at present prices, worth nearly, or quite $5000.00. After proving up her homestead, she purchased a lot in the village of Seneca and moved her house upon it where she is now rounding out a well spent life.

MRS. EMMA A. HOOPER, formerly from the state of New York, came to Faulk county in the spring of 1885 with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Westfall. and was. located on a homestead, being a quarter of section 30 ^ township 118, range 72.

Mrs. Hooper had a large experience in the loneliness and exposure of pioneer life. After proving up on her homestead in 1891, she married George W. Kline, who died in 1905, leaving her upon her former homestead, but in possession of considerable property. Mrs. Kline, who is, now irh independent circumstances,, resides in her beautiful residence in the village of Seneca. An illustration of her pleasant and commodious home may be found on page 179" in this history.

there engag^ed in the banking business, as a profession. Was cashier of the First National Bank of Coon Rapids, Iowa, until he came to Seneca, Faulk county. He was married to Miss Emma J. Monk on December 7th, 1899, To them has been born one child, Theodore, four years old, Mr, Dixon has been in Seneca for the last three years acting as cashier of the State Bank of Seneca, and is counted among the reliable and influential men of the county.

ALEX C. RUDINE was born in Sweden, in 1878, and came to America in 1885 and located in Hyde county. South Dakota. In 1906 he removed to Seneca, Faulk county, and engaged in banking, real ^tate, and insurance. He has been successful in business and is counted among the active business men of west Faulk county.

ARTHUR J. EATON was born in Waukon, Iowa, in 1883, of American parentage, and is a graduate of the high school and took a three year course at the Iowa State University. For a time he was cashier of the State Bank of Seneca. On June 19th, 1907, he married Miss Lisle Mary Stewart of Waukon, Iowa. At the present time Mr. Eaton is engaged in the sale of lumber and coal at Seneca and is counted among the reliable, active business men of that town.

WILLIAM KELLETT was born in the state of Indiana in 1843. In 1886 he located in Seneca and continued his employment on the farm until five years ago when he was appointed postmaster of that enterprising and growing village. Mr. Kellett has taken great interest in public affairs ever since he came into the county and has had a full share of public affairs. He is now serving on his second term as postmaster to the entire satisfaction of the community.

In 1887 he married Miss Livingstone of Monticello, Iowa. To them have been born three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons are active citizens of Faulk county, the daughter is married and her home is in Minneapolis, Minnesota,

NELSON HAG AN, manager of the N. A. Hagan Land Company, was born in Norway, March 18th, 1870, and came to America. In 1893, he located in Faulk county. Mr. Hagan is one of the many men who have greatly prospered through their foresight and good business management. He owns six hundred and forty acres of valuable Faulk county real estate, three hundred and twenty acres in Potter county, and four hundred acres in the state of Minnesota. No man in Seneca has done more for the improvement and upbuilding of that enterprising and prosperous village than Mr. Hagan.

On the 12th day of October, 1902, he married Miss Capatora Harris of Mellette, Spink county. To them has been born one son, who is now in his sixth year.

Mr. Hagan, in common with all the pioneers of this county, has had a full share of disappointments, hard.ships., and privations. Largely his property has accumulated within the last five years through the rapid increase in value of real estate, and his own good judgement in the management of his business aiTairs.

FRANK ARZT was born on February 17th, 1856, in Australia. In 1867 he came to America and located in Clinton county, Illinois In 1879 he came to Brookings county, South Dakota, where he remained until September, 1888, when he came to Faulk county, and located on section 18, township 117, range 72 (EHisville), where he had a farm of three hundred and twenty acres. One hundred and sixty acres he has lately sold for $27.50 per acre and has now the best quarter section with good farm buildings, one hundred and forty acres of which is under improvement. He also has a house and six lots in the village of Seneca. He has twenty-five head of horses, twentyfive head of neat stock and has over five hundred dollar's w^orth of hogs. Also a fine lot of poultry, consisting of geese, turkeys, ducks and chickens. They have also raised for the last eight years an averags of over two hundred dollars worth of garden truck. Mr. Arzt is a firm believer in intense cultivation, his wheat averages 16 bushels, oats 30 bushels and corn 30 or 40 bushels per acre.

On November 11, 1877, he married EmilieMatzke, who was born in 1858 in Australia, and came to this country in the spring of 1877. To them have been born eight children, seven of whom are now living, viz: Emma, Joseph, Marion, Edward, Frank, Newi:on, and Emilie, two of whom are married.

EMANUEL GOLDEN was born on the 7th day of August, 1827, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and from that place was drafted into the Union Army in November, 1862, where he served a full nine months, leaving a wife and six children behind him.

CHARLES P. FORREST, of Orient, South Dakota. was born in Smithfield, Pennsylvania, and was one of .seven brothers. At a family reunion held at the home of L. W. Forrest, of East Smithfield, these seven brothers, the sons of Dana Forrest, who was a native of the state of Vermont, with the father and mother, were all present. Charles P. Forrest, of Orient, Faulk county was one of the number. These seven brothers all served in the Union army through the civil war, and strange to say. neither wounds nor death overtook them in that long and bloody struggle.

The subject of this sketch is the fourth son of this remarkable family who gathered from their homes in the east, the extreme north-west and the middle west, to greet father and mother and each other with a real home greeting, forty-two years after the close of that terrible war. Mr. Forrest is one of our Faulk county pioneers that has succeeded in accumulating property and in helping to build up the prosperous and enterprising village of Orient. An illustration of his hotel and stable may be seen in this historv

ALEXANDER M. THOMPSON was born March 16, 1846, in Whiteside county, Illinois, and remained there until 1870, when he removed from there to Madison county, Iowa.

September 12, 1872, he married Miss Maggie E. Hart of that place. To them have been born three children, viz: S. Bell, Egbery A. and John A., the last of whom is a born Dakotian. In the spring of 1873 he removed to Hamilton county, Nebraska, and in September, 1884, to Faulk county, South-Dakota, and located in township 118, range 72.

Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have succeeded remarkably W2ll in keeping the family together. All are living at the homestead, although the sons have separate financial intarests. Altogether they have 480 acres of land, and rent two sections more. They have 60 horses, 80 head of neat stock, 11 hogs, 500 sheep and 80 ducks, a fine set of farm buildings and 170 acres under cultivation besides the home and rented pasture. Mr. Thompson has had a full share of the privations and' hardships of the early Dakota pioneers and is now reaping the full reward of those who remained through years of drought and storm with failure of crops, while those less fortunate left this county without additional reward.

PETER SCHMITT was born September 13, 1859, in Germany, and came to the United States the 26th day of March, 1881, and in March, 1886, came to EHisville, South Dakota and located upon the south-west quarter of section 9, township 118, range 72, now Seneca and is now located on section 14 in the same township. Mr. Sdnnitt has ex- perienced all the hardships of the average pioneer settler, but bj^ remaining here, and by hard work, he has now a 320 acre farm, 160 acres improved and a good home. He has sixteen horses, seventy head of neat stock, thirty-five hogs, and all machinery necessary to carry on his farm.

February 17th, 1890, he married Miss Ivcibrich and to them have been born the following children: Susanna, John, Gustave, Peter, Aloysius and Emma May. Mr. Schmitt is one of western Faulk county's most successful farmers.

F. E. HATFIEED was born Oct. 15th, 1846, in Rush county, Indiana, and received all the advantages of our American common schools. He was seventeen years old when with his father and family he removed to Mahaska county, Iowa, where he lived until the spring of 1885, when he removed to what is now the town of Elroy, where he remained until the fall of 1906.

In October, 1866 he married Miss Samantha I. Dusenberry, of Mahaska county, Iowa. To them have been born four children, only one of which, Harry D., who is interested in business with his father is now living.

Mr. Hatfield has been interested in public affairs and in the advancement and prosperity of Faulk county. For six years he served the county as commissioner from the third commissioner district.

MATTHEW J. JARVIS wasborn in Baraboo, Wis., on May 14, 1850, of English parentage. Moved with his parents to Columbus, Ohio, when he was about two years old and came west with them in 1859 to Richland City, Wisconsin. He afterward moved to and lived at Madison, Sun Prairie, Richland Center and Cazenovia, Wisconsin. At the latter place he learned the millers trade and always worked at it until he came west in the spring of 1880.

On Christmas Day, in 1876, he was married to Abbie Ann Hall, at Reedsburg, Wisconsin. To them w^ere born five children: Matthew J., S. Hall, Annette, Lucretia and Maggie Belle, the last dying in infancy.

In February, 1880," he shipped from IvaValle, Wisconsin to Tracy, Minnesota, that being as far as trains ran that spring, although the track was laid as far as Volga, South Dakota. From there he drove overland to Pipestone, Minnesota, and from there to Mitchell, South Dakota, where he arrived ahead of the railroad. From there he went to Huron, helped lay out the townsite, and on July 4th, 1880, read the declaration of independence the first time it was ever read in Beadle county.

In August, 1880, he moved to Redfield and built the first house there, then known as the Jarvis house, now as the New Central House. Was joined by his wife from Wisconsin, about September 1, with his two boys and there on the townsite of Redfield, alone, they put in that hard winter of 1880 and 1881, living on wheat ground in a coffee mill and antelope meat.

He was the chairman of the first convention ever held at Redfield, sent the first express and received the first express ever received at that office.

Mr. Jarvis located government land in this county on the first day of August, 1883. On November 9th, 1883, was appointed on the first board of commissioners to perfect the organization of the new county, and since that time has been actively identified with the social and political affairs of Faulk county. Since leaving his farm and removing to Faulkton he has been engaged in the drug business, owning a drug store and doing a general land business. For the last four years he has owned a hotel in Faulkton. He has been mayor of the city for four years.

DR. ABBIE A. JARVIS (nee Abbie Ann Hall) first saw the light of day at Shanzerville, Ohio, on September 16, 1853. She was born of mixed parentage, her father being a North Carolinian and her mother Pennsylvania Dutch. She moved from Ohio in 1855 with her parents to Sauk countv, Wisconsin and was educated in the common and high schools of her day.

She was united in marriage to Matthew J. Jarvis on Christmas Day, 1876, at Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Came to Dakota Territory with her husband in 1880, and put in the winter of 1880 and 1881 at Redfield a year before there was. another house on the town site, living on wheat ground in a coffee mill and antelope meat.

To this union have been born five children, M. J.. Jarvis, Jr., S. Hall Jarvis, Annette, Lucretia and Belle^ the latter dying in infancy. In 1883 they moved from Redfield to a farm in Faulk county with their family. In the winter of 1888-1889 they moved to Faulkton, where her husband went into business. In 1890, with a family of four children, and after going through all the hardships of a frontier life, she commenced to read medicine and in 1898 graduated fourth in her class from the Women's Medical College of the Northwestern University of Chicago. After taking a full four years course she returned at once to Faulkton, where she has ever since had her full share of practice and she believes the confidence and respect of the people of the county.

Mrs. Jar vis has been a resident physician of several benefit associations, and has been honored with the election of vice president of the State Board of Pharmacy. She is a worthy member of the Eastern Star and of the Methodist Episcopal church.

His father, who was a veteran of the Mexican War, died when the deceased was 12 years of age and he being the oldest boy of the family was left to assume, with his mother, the responsibility of managing family affairs. He remained at home until he was married. His mother died in 1895 at her home in Illinois.

On November 29, 1883, the dg'ceased was married to Lizzie Fahs, also of Dakota, Illinois. In the fall of 1884 he came to South Dakota to procure a home. He filed on a homestead in western Faulk county and in the spring of 1885 he moved on same and lived there for about eight years. In the fall of 1892, he was elected sheriff of Faulk county in which capacity he served four years. He has been a resident of Faulkton since his election to this office. He leaves a wife and three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Mitchell, of Dakota Illinois; Mrs. Mary Lambert, of Greenwood, Wisconsin; Mrs. Lottie Powless, of Detroit, Michigan; and two brothers, James G., of Akron, Iowa, and John L., of Galena, South Dakota, to mourn his loss.

The deceased was a menfber of the Masonic, K. P., M. B. A., D. of H. and A. O. U. W. societies. He was also a member of the official board of the M. E. church.

Mr. Hays remained a citizen of Faulkton after his election to the office of sheriff. At the expiration of his second term he engaged in the live stock and butcher busi- , ness, later purchasing the Western Telephone Exchange.

Mr. Hays sustained a great loss in the big fire on March 20, 1905, when his market and telephone office were consumed in the flames. Three hours after the fire he was doing business. He at once took action looking to the erection of the Haj s block, an illustration of which ma}^ be found in this history. He soon after sold out his meat market and devoted his attention to the building up of his telephone business. The Faulkton exchange was being constantly enlarged and improved and rural lines run in every direction from Faulkton. It ' was his ambition to build up a telephone system here covering all the central and western portions of the coimty and rebuilding the Faulkton system and improving it until there was none better in the .state. Then he would take life a little easier- He had planned for himself and wife a trip to California where they would spend the coming winter and enjoy a much needed rest. He finished his life's work. His telephone system, rural and city, was extended, improved and enlarged just as he wanted and his ambition was satisfied. He had commenced arranging for his much needed vacation and winter trip to California, when he was suddenly and without warning stricken by the grim reaper, Death, and the vacation and rest, which he so much felt the need of, proved to be the long rest - the long sleep which must come to all. His work was done.' How many pass off this stage of action with their work finished? Mr. Hays completed his work because he had a purpose in life and lived to it. He toiled late and early. He had no family except his wife. They had plenty.

As a citizen and business man Mr. Hays had no superior. Faulkton has sustained great losses by fire and otherwise but none can be compared to the loss through the departure of Mr. Hays. He was successful in all that he undertook. He always prov^ed the right man in the right place in whatever position he was placed. He always took much interest in national and state politics and was more or less active in local politics. He was always foremost in all public enterprises. His energy, earnestness and clear perception were always great factors in any cause that he championed. His judgment was sought by many in affairs of life. No worthy person ever appealed to him in vain for assistance. His heart was an open book to all who knew him - simple, frank, kind and just. His heart was always in the right place - in his work, in his words, in his every action and thought. He was especially kind to children, never passing one on the street, though a stranger, without a cheerful word and a smile. This of itself was an index to his character. He never sixjke evil of anyone and could always see some good in everybody.

As a friend he was perfect if such is possible in man. His friendship was true as steel and pure as unalloyed gold. Among all his strong characteristics his faithfulness to a friend was the strongest.

His life was a very active one from boyhood days. His capital with which he built his successful life was honor, ambition, energy and industry. While he did not live to enjoy the fruits of his labor as he had planned, yet his life is a good example to those just taking up the responsibilities of character building for themselves.

MRS. LIZZIE (FAHS) HAYS was born April 18, 1863, at Dakota, Illinois. On November 29, 1883, she was united in marriage to Joseph H. Hays. In the spring of 1885 her actual pioneer life commenced. Located upon a homestead nearly twenty miles from any railroad town , she, with her devoted husband, with patience and perseverance, met the lonliness and privations that became a part of their new life, ever looking forward to better and more satisfactory conditions and making a persistent and untiring effort to attain them. One after another who had located claims near them and who they had counted on to help build up a prosperous community proved up their claims, mortgaged them, and left the country, until they were left comparatively alone. For more than seven long years she stood by her devoted husband in building up a home and a reputation, that prepared the way for larger usefulness and better opportunities for financial success, and not to be forgotten more satisfying and enjoyable social sur- roundings. Sixteen years of almost uninterrupted prosperity, a most desirable home and home surroundings, largely relieved from care and responsibility, there seemed but little more to be sought or desired. On the morning of October 13, 1908, she awoke to a new experience. The companion of her youth, the guide and support of mature years, was suddenly and unexpectedly removed. That darkness and desolation, that none can realize save those who have passed through the deep and turbid waters, became a reality in her life. The quiet, careful and businesslike manner in which Mrs. Hays took up and is managing the various business affairs and large moneyed interests, has no doubt lightened her pathway, by giving no time to look upon the dark waters through which she was compelled to pass.

CAPTAIN CALEB HOLT ELLIS was born November 18th, 1825, in the town of Weld, in the then county of Oxford, state of Maine, where he resided with his parents until he was twelve years of age, attending the common schools. Among his early teachers were Dr. Fondice Barker and one or two of that renowned family of Abbotts. Nature was lavish of her gifts to that immediate vicinity. A beautiful sheet of water two miles wide and seven miles long, teeming with shining mountain stream trout, surrounded by broad intervales and table land extending to the very foot of high mountains with lofty peaks, made a landscape sublime in grandeur, well calculated for lasting impressions for coming years. In 1837 his parents mov^ed to Sangeville Village, in Piscataquis county, where for nearly six years he enjoyed the advantages of one of the best common and high schools of that daj-. Then, in his eighteenth year, after six days journey, weary and sore footed, he was transferred to another school, one of toil, privation, exposure and hardship, in the wilderness, in the then territory of Northeastern Maine, in the lumber woods, on the rivers driving lumber, in the mills, clearing land of its vast growth of timber; ten long years of constant toil, ten years of constant physical training, as looked back upon through subsequent years, ten years of most valuable, physical, moral and intellectual discipline; ten years of actual well rounded physical manhood.

In the winter of 1854 he was granted a local preacher's license by the Fort Fairfield Quarterly Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church and in June of that year appointed preacher-in-charge of the Western and Topsfield circuit in the East Maine conference of that church, and the following year was reappointed to the Wesley and Northfield charge, and in 1856 to the Franklin, Sullivan and Gouldsboro circuit. At Sullivan there was an extensive revival and many conversions which made it necessary to form a new circuit of Sullivan and Gouldsboro, and Hancock was added to the Franklin charge. At the end of this year (1857) he was appointed to the East Macheas charge where he preached until the opening of the Civil War. He then received the appointment of Chaplain in the Eleventh Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry and was attached to the second brigade of General Casey's division of Keyes' corps, Army of the Potomac and was stationed on Meridian Hill, Washington, D. C, in the winter of 1861 and 1862, but joined McClellan at Fortress Monroe and took part in the .first Peninsular campaign. At the time that regiment was ordered south Mr. Ellis lay sick with typhoid fever at the Chesepeake general hospital. He subsequently resigned the chaplaincy and gave his time and influence in enlisting men for the Union army. In the winter of 1864 he was requested by Governor Coney of Maine to assist in the organization of the 31st Regiment of Maine Volunteer Infantry. In this enterprise he was more than successful, having secured men in excess of a full quoto for his company. The 31st joined Burnside at Annapolis, Maryland, and participated in the memorable Battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania and in the rapid "On to Richmond." On the 7th of June, 1864, after the bloody battle of the second and third of that month, while in command of the picket line Captain Ellis received a shell wound in his left breast, causing paralysis of the left side, and was by the division surgeon declared to be in a dying condition.

This ended his army service. The following October he was discharged from the Annapolis hospital for total disability. It was nearly three years before he was able to lay away his crutches and resume work in the ministry. From that time on there has been suffering to interfere with an active business life, at times so severe as to compel him to abandon employment and seek climatic changes. In 1876 he was compelled to ask for a supernumerary relation in the Michigan annual conference of the Metnodist Episcopal church and flee to the gulf coast of Texas, and again in March, 1882, to seek the high altitude and clear bracing atmosphere of South Dakota, and again after an absence of nearly twenty years, to seek new life and energy in the far famed Dakota climate.

Captain Ellis is proud of his Puritanic ancestry, tracing back by seven distinct lines to Plymouth Rock. His Great Grandmother Ellis was Sarah Bradford, the fifth generation from William Bradford, who came in the Mayflower to Massachusetts Bay in 1620. She married Freeman Ellis, the third generation from John Ellis of Sandwich, who married Elizabeth Freeman in 1645. Governor William Bradford was for thirty-one years, in all that the title implies, at the head of the Plymouth Colony. Lydia Fuller was the daughter of Isaac Fuller, a Revolutionary hero and the fifth from Doctor Samuel Fuller, deacon in Mr. Robinson's church in Holland and surgeon and physician of the first church in the Plymouth Colony. In 1800 she married Freeman Ellis of Hartford, in the district of Maine, son of Freeman and Sarah (Bradford) Ellis of Plympton, Massachusetts.

Not only in the Bradford and Fuller lines, but through Richard Warren, Francis Eaton, Edward Doty, Francis Cook and Stephen Hopkins, he traces in unbroken lines his ancestry to that heroic band that in 1620 laid the foundation of civil and religious liberty on the bleak New England shore.

Captain Ellis again and again in South Dakota found a most wonderful health resort. After a winter of great suffering, "in March. 1882, he came to Beadle county and located at Wessington, which was followed by greatly improved health, and again in August of 1907, with wonderful results.

On January 14, 1849, Captain Ellis married Lydia Hains, daughter of Jo.seph Wingate and Mary (BriggsV Hains, of Fort Fairfield, Maine, who was born in Hollowell,

Maine, April 12, 1829. To them were born seven chidren, viz: Ada lanthe, who died at Brazoria, Texas, in 1876; Allie Leroy, who died in infancy; Arthur W., of Faulkton, South Dakota; Ernest Almond, who died at Nashville, Michigan, in 1870; Olin Howard, now of Hillsdale, Michigan; Mellie May, now Mrs. Howard Kipi^, of Fort Fairfield, Maine, and Adelbert lyincoln, who died in infancy. Mrs. Ellis died at EUisville, Faulk county, July 7, 1886, Captain Ellis subsequently married Mrs. Francis E. Richard, of Fort Fairfield, Maine, who died in that village in May, 1894. There was another marriage August 6, 1895, to Mrs. Lottie H. Ehrlich, of Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Ellis died at Fort Fairfield, January 22, 1907.

Now in his eighty-fourth year he, after a most serious breakdown in the winter of 1907, is again active and vigorous for one of his age, and finds real enjoyment in literary work.

ALBERT GOODER was born on September 9, 1860, in Racine county, Wisconsin, enjoying the advantages of our American commom public schools. In the year of 1883 he located on the laud he now occupies as a home. To this land he has added three more quarter sections, and has now under improvement over four hundred acres. Mr. Gooder has fine farm buildings, an illustration of his house will be found in this history.

For the last ten or twelve years there has been steady advancement. In the spring of 1891 Mr. Gooder went to the Pacific coa.st and took a look at the far famed lands of the state of Washington, but after seven months of experience be returned and decided that Faulk county, South

Dakota, was good enough for him. On March 1, 1885, he married Miss Ada M. Estee, of Belleville, Wisconsin. To them were born three children, viz: Grace M., Mable E., and Harold G. In addition to carrying on his farm and caring for his home interests, he has served as county treasurer in Faulk county, four years. Mr. Gooder has only twenty head of horses and about the same of neat stock, depending largely on mixed farming, with land under the best cultivation.

Mr. Gooder would not consider $40.00 an acre a reasonable price for his land, and is one of the Faulk county pioneers that is thoroughly satisfied with his immediate surroundings, being located only one mile from the railroad station of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad at Orient.

GEORGE J. JARVIS of Faulkton, South Dakota, is a native of the Buckeye state, having been born at Columbus, Ohio, March 26, 1843. He is of English ancestery, his parents, George and Sarah Jarvis, the former of whom was born at Staffordshire, England, and the latter at Brockelhurst, Sheffield, England.

In 1849 his parents removed from Franklin county, Ohio, to Baraboo, Wisconsin, the trip being made in a prairie schooner, a very popular mode of travel for emigrants in those days. They were lost for a day upon the Illinois prairie. At night they were able to locate themselves fourteen miles north of Chicago. There were no railroads at that time running into or out of Chicago. In February, 1851, the family returned to Ohio, but after re-

On July 26, 1861, when eighteen years and four months old the subject of our sketch enlisted as a private in the 3rd Battery Wisconsin Artillery, and served through the term of his enlistment in the army of the Cumberland.

After his return from the army he engaged in farming. In 1867 he engaged in the milling business. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar and actively engaged in legal practice until 1881, when he removed to Minnesota.

In August 1883 he came to Faulk county, Dakota Territory, and took advantage of the liberal United States land laws, and while residing upon his land and faithfully complying with the laws in improving the same, he actively engaged in the practice of his profession.

In 1895 he w^as elected county judge for Faulk county to which office he has been re-elected up to the present time and is now faithfully and successfully serving his seventh term .

Judge Jarvis is a republican in politics. He is popular with the common people, especially with his comrades in the Grand Army of the Republic.

He is an active and influental member of Phil. H. Sheridan Post No. 72, at Faulkton, South Dakota, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Judge Jarvis was united in marriage to Miss Diantha M. Nichols, a native of Somerset, Ohio, and to them have been born the following children: Nellie A., born April 26, 1866; George L., born October 2, 1867; Harry J., born April 24, 1879; Fred W., born May 14, 1872, and S. Belle, born December 2, 1874,

JOHN W. HAYvS was born on May 26, 1844, in the town of Scotland, county of Albany, in the state of New York. In 1864 his father removed to' Rensselear county, New York, and in 1868 to Spottsylvania county, Virginia. On April 11, 1866, he was united in marriage with Miss Frances Walker of Rensselear county, New York, and to them were born six children, viz: Charles N., William ly., John R., who died in infancy; Charlotte E., Josephine J., and Mary Frances.

After remainifig in Virginia for a little over three years, Mr. Hays moved to W^ashington, D. C, where he remained one year and then removed to Newark, N. J., then in 1884 he came to Faulk county and in June of that year located a presmptiononth2 north-east quarter of section 18, township 119, range 69. He also secured a quarter section under the tree claim law. In the fall of 1891 Mr. Hays removed to the city of Faulkton where he has since resided, yet continued to carry on his farm until 1902, and is yet the possessor of 320 acres of Faulk county land.

Ever since coming to this county he has taken an active interest in local political affairs, especially along the educational lines. For nearly ten years he has held the office of justice of the peace. Mr. Hays is an outspoken, unqualified, prohibition prohibitionist and the fact that this was at that time a no license county, determined his location here. Since 1902, in addition to his official duties, he has been actively engaged in buying and selling real estate and in insurance and collections.

Mr. Hays made no mistake in coming to Faulkton, where he has a pleasant home and is the owner of other city property. Financially the future is abundantly provided

At his country's call, at the breaking out of the Civil War, hs was prompt to respond. On May 4th, 1851, he enlisted at Syracuse, New York, in Company H.,Fourteenth New York Volunteer Infantry, two years and during that time was engaged in seventeen battles and at the expiration of his term of service, in 1863 he again enlisted in Company L., New York Cavalry, better known as "Scotts Nine Hundred," where he served until mustered out at the end of the war.

Mr. Hays through a long line of ancestry has a comingling of Scotch Irish and French blood that became Americanised long before the Revolutionary War, in which his great grandfather took an active part, as did his Grandfather Martin on his mothers side of the house, in the war of 1812 and 1814.

CHRISTOPHER MERTENS was born in South Germany, February 13th, 1843. He came to the United States of American in 1867 and located at Dunkirk, in the state of New York, where he engaged in the manufacturing of boots and shoes for one year, he then removed to Two Rivers, W^isconsin, where he carried on the same business. Two years later he removed to Algona, Kossuth county, Iowa, and engaged in farming and remained six years. He then came to Minnesota and located in Blue Earth county and in the insurance business.

He was united in marriage with Miss Genevieve Geiger, July 29th, 1868, and to this union was born five children, viz: John, born July 16th, 1869; he graduated from

Hamline University, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1903, married Miss Alberta Galispia, came to South Dakota and commenced the practice of medicine atlvcbanon, Potter county, the same year, where he now resides and enjoys a successful practice; Elizabeth, born December 22nd, 1870, died August 24th, 1871; Clara, born July 18th, 1872. she married Samuel Brown of Faulk county, November 6th, 1889, and died January 7th, 1903, leaving three children; Emma, born March 26th, 1874, she married John Gallagher, June 4th, .1902, they now reside at San Antonio, Texas: Eouisa, born February 22nd, 1877, she was united in marriage in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 26th, 1906, to William Simon, who was born February 16th, 1869, at St. Charles, Minnesota, and came to Faulk county in 1889 and located at Faulkton, where he has been employed in the meat market up to the present time.

Mr. Mertens continued in office and representing some of the most reliable insurance companies and collecting agencies in the United States, until his removal to Faulkton in 1888. After Mr. Mertens came to this county he continued to work at his trade as a boot and shoe maker for two years, at which time he was elected to the office he filled in Minnesota, that of justice of the peace, and to which he continued to be re-elected until the time of his death, at his home in Faulkton, South Dakota, on Sunday morning, October 20th, 1905, aged sixty-two years, eight months and sixteen days. Mr. Mertens was educated in Germany, graduating from a military school and serving for a time in the German army. After completing his service in the army he was educated for the ministry of the Catholic church, but on account of doctrinal difficulties he never entered the church. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, holding his membership at Gettj-sbiirg, in Potter county, and has represented his lodge at the grand lodge meetings of the state. He was a lover of art, music, and philosophy and had read and thought much upon these subjects. He was a kind and loving husband and father, a good neighbor and an honest man, and the entire communitj- sympathized with the family in their loss. The funeral service was conducted from the Methodist Episcopal church, Rev. McBeth preaching the sermon and the Odd Fellows having charge of the burial service. The burial was in the Faulkton cemetery.

JOHN F. LUKE was born November 21st, 1854, in Dodge county, Wisconsin. In 1883, on March 29th, he came to Faulk county and was located upon the north-west quarter of section 24, township 120, range 68, and subsequently proved up under the United States homestead law. He also took a tree claim in section 23, adjoining his homestead and after proving it up located his buildings on the tree claim, where he now resides.

On March, 1884, he was united in marriage to Miss Magdaline M. Schiveickhard. To them have been born six children, as follows: John D., Minnie, Sarah, Nellie, Belle and Jessie.

Mr. Euke, in common with all of the pioneer settlers, experienced the hardships and privations of pioneer life, hail, storm and drouth producing their destructive effects, but amid all loyally remained and is now reaping his reward, having added to his two quarter sections, two more, and now he has a 640 acre farm^ with good farm buildings; twenty horses, twentj^ head of neat stock, twenty hogs, and all farm machinery, and a good artesian well, reaching water at a depth of 160 feet. Mr. Luke has a house and six acres of land in the young and thriving village of Cresbard.