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

REV. A. A. WOOD, pastor of the Congregational church of Faulkton, was born in Scott township, Wisconconsin, April 28th, 1854. He spent his boyhood days on a farm. On the death of his father in 1866 the farm was sold and the family moved to Milwaukee. Here the author (jf our sketch spent four years as an employe in the rolling mills of that city, after which he went to Oberlin, Ohio, where he began a seven years' course of study - three in the academy and four in the college proper - graduating in 1882 with A. B. degree. After spending three years in the capacity of Superintendent of schools, he began a theological course in the Boston University, graduating in 1888 with the S. T. B. degree, having previously received the A. M. degree from Oberlin college. On graduating in theology he immediately returned to Wisconsin where he began the work of a Methodist minister, uniting with the Wisconsin M. E. conference in the fall of that year.

On December 18th, 1889, he was imited in marriage to Miss Sarah Philpot of Milwaukee, who is still his popular and helpful companion. After a few years in the active work of the ministry that ever present thirst for knowledge for a broader education became so overmastering that he secured a leave of absence from the conference, releasing him from the active work for a season, with the result that he at once began at the University of Chicago, an extended

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The impression grew upon him that he was better adapted to the independence of the Congregational fold; hence in the fall of 1899 he secured from the Wisconsin M, E- conference the customary "certificate of location" with which, and other credentials, he united with the Congregational denomination in the spring of 1900.

WILLIAM M. EDGERTON. M. D., is a leading physician and surgeon of Faulkton and has met with most wonderful success in the practice of his chosen profession. He was born in Mantorville, Dodge county, Minnesota, May 27j 1870, and is a worthy representative of a prominent and distinguished family, being a son of Hon. Alonzo J. Edgerton. The Doctor's great-grandfather aided the colonies in their struggle for independence as a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and was taken as a prisoner to Montreal, Canada. The gvandfather, Lorenzo Edgerton, was a farmer and contractor in New York state throughout life.

in Rome, New York, and there prepared for the legal profession. In 1856 he removed to Dodg-e county, Minnesota, where he engaged in practice until the Civil war broke out. In 1862 he raised a company, and the following two years were spent on the frontier fighting Indians, but the remainder of his service was in the South. He was finally mustered out in 1867 with rank of brigadier-general. He was always a ver\' popular and prominent man, and in 1880 was appointed senator from Minnesota by Governor Pillsbury. After holding that position for one year he was appointed chief justice of Dakota Territory in 1881, and in the spring of the following year he and his family took up their residence in Yankton. In 1886 they removed to Mitchell, where he engaged in the practice of law until appointed United States district judge by President Harrison in 1889, when he located at Sioux Falls. He died in that city, in August, 1896, honored and respected by all who knew him.

Dr. Edgerton is the sixth in order of birth in a family of seven children. He attended .school in Yankton, and later the high school of Mitchell, from which he was graduated in 1889. For two years he was a student in the State University at Vermillion, South Dakota, and was. graduated from the South Dakota Agricultural College in 1893, with the degree of B. S. In the fall of that year he entered the medical department of the State University of Minnesota, where he was graduated in the spring of 1896, with the degree of M. D. For one year he was engaged in practice at Claremont, Minnesota, but in March^ 1898, opened an office in Faulkton, and has established

In December, 1896, Dr. Edgerton led to the altar Miss Alta Andrews, who was born in Wisconsin and educated at Vermillion, South Dakota. Her father, A. A. Andrews, is a prominent citizen of Faulkton and owns a valuable farm in the northeastern part of the county. The Doctor and his wife have a son, Carl Alonzo, born November 29, 1898.

The Doctor is one of the most popular and influential citizens of Faulkton, and is now serving as mayor of that city and also as county physician. Politically, he is identified with the republican party, and socially, affiliates with the Masonic fraternit}^ the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen and the Modern Brotherhood of America. His wife is an active and piominent member of the Congregational church of Faulkton, and both occupy an enviable position in the best social circles of the communitv.

CAPTAIN H. A. HUMPHREY was among the first settlers of Faulk county, and one of the most successful workers for the advancement and upbuilding of society. He was editor and publisher of the Faulkton Times, one of the best and most reliable newspapers ever published in Faulk county. The Times was an outspoken, independent and reliable exponent of the various questions, that entered into the upbuilding of moral, social and political standing of the young and important county. Earnest in his efforts to advance the interests of the conununity and keep in toucli with the upbuilding of Faulkton.

Captain Humphrey and his inestimal)le companion were important co-workers in lifting life's burdens, cheering life's pilgrimage and in bringing together and building up a social, congenial and happy community, out of the early pioneer settlers from different states and communities, that had, without any reference to each other, decided to make Faulk county their future home. Personally he was an independent thinker and an outspoken worker; his intelligence, and the further consideration that he was usually on the right side, compelled his recognition as a safe, reliable and successful leader.

He was appointed b}- Territorial Governor Ordway one of the commissioners to perfect the organization of Faulk county. In whatever position or public work to which he was called, the duties were ably and conscientiously performed, until his leadership, as voiced through the Times, became acknowledged by a large following, not only in Faulk county but in other parts of the state. No reliable history of the struggle for county organization and statehood can be written without Captain Humphrey occupying a large and important place. With statehood assured, a looking forward for political preferment became the order of the day.

Watertown claiming the governorship, the Black Hills a United States senator, and Canton, Sioux Falls and Yankton claiming the other senator and one representative to congress, public, or rather political attention, was turned toward the northern portion of the state and particularly toward Faulk county, and also toward Captain Humphrey,, as the man for the important place.

Pickler, arother Faulkton man, developed so much strength that little real work was done by Captain Humphrey's friends, and at the convention to elect delegates to the state convention, county pride and political policy decided them in giving Major Pickler their entire county delegation, and he was triumphantlv nominated for congress at the convention .

Major Pickler' s friends realizing that Captain Humphrey would feel disappointed and that he would not give him the hearty support that his home paper would be expected to, a move was made to buy the Times. This move succeeded and the Times became a Pickler organ.

And here we have always thought that Captain Humphrey made the mistake of his life, so far as political preferment and advancement was concerned. If Captain Humphrey had said to the party that had been selected to negotitate for the Times, "no, the Times is not for sale, it is a republican paper and will give the most hearty support to the republican ticket, especially to our townsman and fellow citizen, Major Pickler," the writer of this sketch is in a position to know, that while some particular plans might have been upset and political disappointment followed, the assurance would have been accepted and Captain Humphrey been in line for political preferment, with an open door to the highest office within the gift of the people of South Dakota.

BUTLER IvAMBERT was born May 8th, 1858, in Lafayette county, Wisconsin. His parents were living on a farm w'here he assisted in making a living and attended the public schools, remaining at the home of his birth and boyhood until twenty-three years of age. At that time he came west with Robert Young, arriving in Faulk county on the nineteenth day of August, 1882, and took possession of unsurveyed public land by driving a stake and nailing a board to it, upon which notice of possession was posted. In about one month he returned to his former home in Wisconsin for a car load of supplies, including a team, which was shipped to Ashton, in Spink county, the nearest railroad point, having left the young man who came with him to hold posession of the land and look after their interests. The land in the meantime having beep surveyed, a shanty was built across the line in which they were able to hold down their claims, being on section 22 and section 21, in township 119, range 67. At the time of settlement the nearest neighbor was nearly five miles away. This was on the last of October, 1882, and in December nearly all the land in sight was held by squatters rights, although the land had not yet come upon the market. About this time Mr. Abbott settled at DeVoe and established a boarding tent until he could erect a home to accomodate the new coming settlers. That winter Mr. Abbott and the subject of this sketch were the only ones to have teams, by which communication could be kept up with the railroad station. In February the land having come into market a return trip to the Huron land office was made to file on their land. Mr. Lambert was able to add to his preemption a tree claim, which he held until 1887, subsequently in 1885 he filed his homestead right on the south-west quarter of section 20, township 119,^ range 67. Nine years ago he sold his homestead for his present place of business in this city where he has since been engaged in harness making.

On November 22, 1887, he was united in marriage to Miss Nellie E. Moulton, who was born November 22, 1869, in Allegan county, Michigan and came to Faulk county with her parents, who settled near I,aFoon, on the 24th of April 1883. To them have been born three cnildren, viz: Furness W., born the 28th of January, 1889; Bessie B., born April 12th, 1897; Ervin B., born November 14th, 1905.

Mr. Eambert is one of the successful business men of our citj', owning his place of business and a fine home with modern improvements, and is free from debt.

EPHRIAM COLE was born August 10th, 1854, in Starksborough, Vermont. When two years of age his par- -ents moved to Dodge county, Wisconsin, where he made his home until he came to Faulk county, Territory of Dakota, in March, 1883, and located upon what proved to be township 120, range 68j where he resided until 1891, when he purchased a farm near the city of Faulkton, being the north-west quarter of section 15, township 118, range 69^ with his farm residence within eighty rods of the center of the city of Faulkton. Upon his present location Mr. Cole has erected a fine set of farm buildings, a house at a cost of $3,000. In addition to his home of 160 acres of improved land he has 480 acres in thetownship where he first located. In addition to his regular farm machinery he has a full outfit of steam plow machinery.

In 1874 Mr. Cole was united in marriage to Miss Ey- -dia Downey, who was born in Syracuse, New York, and -died in Faulkton, South Dakota, on the 19th day of March 1903. A second marriage was contracted with Miss Louise Johnson, of Colorado. To them have been born one child JUeona, who was born December 19, 1906..

Socially Mr. Cole is a member of the M. B. A. , the Workman, and the Degree of Honor, and carries insurance in all but the Degree of Honor, with accident insurance in the Woodman. Politically Mr. Cole is a republican.

SHELDON J. STEELE was born at Suspension Bridge, New York, in 1858. In 1873 his parents removed to Albion, Michigan, and in 1883 he immigrated to Dakota Territory, locating in Faulk county, exercising a squatters right north of LaFoon, the government survey not having been made at that time. In 1887 Mr. Steele removed to Faulkton and engaged in the livery business. In 1890 he was appointed deputy sheriff in which office he continued to serve until 1892, when he was appointed postmaster for Faulkton under the Cleveland administration. In the spring of 1897 Mr. Steele resigned the office of postmaster in favor of Fremont Young who was immediately appointed, he removing to LaFoon township in this county, where he has since resided and been engaged in farming.

In June 1883 the subject of our sketch entered nito the marriage relation with Miss Marie Shelton, who had just arrived from her home in Springton, Michigan, this being the first marriage in Faulk county. After the brief period of a few months on the 31st of December of that year, that happy union wdiich had been entered upon with fond expectation of years of mutual enjoyment, came to a sad and sudden end, the cold and relentless hand of death was laid upon the young wife, and she was removed to the unknown land from which none return.

Iowa. To them have been born ten children, viz: Albert, William L., Anne Florence, Walter S., Claud, Ella, Clifford, Gladys, Mary and Ethel.

ANDREW BOLLER. Everywhere in our land are found men who have worked their own way from humble beginnings to leadership in commerce, the great productive industries, the management of financial affairs, and in controlling the veins and arteries of traffic and exchanges of the country. It is one of the glories of our nation that it is so, and it should be the strongest incentive and encouragement to the youth of the country. Prominent among the self-made men of Faulkton is the subject of this sketch, a well known undertaker and furniture dealer.

He was born in the town of Hohenthengen, Baden, Germany, November 28, 1856, and on both sides is descended from highh- respected old German families. His father, Andreas Boiler, was a farmer and cattle dealer by occupation. Our subject, who is the fourth in order of birth in a family of six children, attended the .^-chools of his native town until twelve years of age, and completed his education by a four years course in a high school in Switzerland. At the age of sixteen he entered a store to learn the mercantile business, for which privilege he had to pa>- two hundred dollars, and the only compensation he received during his three years' apprenticeship was his board. P'or five years thereafter he engaged in clerking in his native land, and in the fall of 1880 sailed for America. Oji landing in New Yoik he proceeded at once to Iowa, but not finding employment during the mouth spent in that state, he cams to Yankton, South Dakota, in December, 1880, though he had to pawn his watch to get the money to bring him here. He made his home in that city for four years, working in a soda water factory most of the time, and in a furniture store for nine month.

In 1884, Mr. Boiler married Miss Carrie Klimisch, who was born in Germany but was reared in this country. Her father, Anthony Klimisch, was a farmer in Yankton county. The children to our subject and his wife are Fred, now twenty-four years of age; Andy, Carrie, May, Bertha, and Adelaide.

Soon after his marriage in 1884, Mr. Boiler went to Highmore, South Dakota, where for a year and a half he conducted the National Hotel. At the end of that time he returned to Yankton, where he remained during the winter of 1885-6, and the following spring went to Redfield to take charge of a hotel, to which he gave the name of National. After six months spent at that place he came to Faulkton in the fall of 1886 and established a furniture store in a building 24x40 feet. He has had to enlarge his stock to meet the demands of his growing trade and has, also added to his building, making it 46x60 feet, and ha.s many modern improments in his store, including a Kimball elevator. When he makes the contemplated repairs, he will have the largest and finest store in the town. He does. purel\- a furniture and undertaking business and receives a liberal share of the public patronage. Besides his business, property he owns one of the best residences in Faulktort and a half section of land in the eastern part of the county "for which he has refused fortv dollars an acre.

Mr. Boiler is an ardent republican in politics, and has taken part in municipal and county affairs, serving as nia3^or one term and as alderman for eighteen years with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. Socially, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen of America.

AMON L. AlvLEN was born December 3rd, 1847, in Harrison county, Ohio, when three years old his parents moved to Iowa, in the spring of 1851, and located in the town of Washington, where he enjoyed a happy home and farm life until the spring of 1882, when a removal was made to western Iowa and a location in Pottawattamie county, where he resided and engaged in farming until 1902, when he took advantage of selling at the higli price that Iowa land commanded at that time and removed to Faulk county. South Dakota, and invested in five quarter sections of valuable prairie land in the township of Myron, seven miles north-east of Faulkton, where his son resides and is making it more valuable.

On March 8, 1872, he was united in marriage to Miss Maria A. Maxwell, of Wa-ihingtoii, Iowa, and to them have been born two sons, viz: Isaac Sheldon, and R. lycroy, who are both married and with families, reside in Faulk county. Since coming to this county Mr. Allen has resided in Faulkton and been engaged in mechanical work.

Mr. Allen sold his Iowa farm for $110 per acre and bought Faulk county land for $22 per acre, and now after .six years ownership and experience with Dakota land and climate^ luis no land to sell, but if he wanted to sell he would not consider $40 per acre a reasonable price for the farm. In addition to his farm land he bought a small house and stable with four lots, upon a desirable residence street in the city. In the summer of 1908, he erected practically a new house of twelve rooms, with all modern improvements, and is now in a situation to enjoy, with his devoted companion, the reward that industrv, intelligence and good judgment has secured.

JOSEPH h. GRATER was born in vSwitzerland, June 26, A. D., 1842, and when twenty-nine years of age he immigrated to the United States and located in the city of Buffalo, state of New York, where he resided until 1885, when he came to Dakota and located in Turner county, where he rented a half section of land, and commenced farming with one yoke of oxen. At that time he was in such straightened circumstances, that he had to borrow money to pa_\- for the oxen. His farming enterprise was a success, but on April 2nd, 1889, prairie fire wiped out all his posessions, causing a loss of more than two thousand dollars. Ten days after the fire, he purchased, all on credit, a quarter section of land on which he had to erect a house and barn. The first year on the farm the crop was nearly a total failure, the second year it was only a little better, and the third year was a bumper crop, which enabled hihi to pay all his debts and buy two more quarters of land. In 1893 Mr. Grater sold his farm for twenty-two dollars per acre, and in the fall of that year removed to Redfield. in Spink county, where he bought six hundred and forty acres of prairie land, erected a house and barn,, and commenced improving his farm. After nine years upon his Spink county farm he sold liis LaiJ for #8,000 or $12.50 per acre. He next moved to Faulk county, iu 1932, and bought twelve hundred and eighty acres of land six miles southwest of Faulkton, for five dollars and thirty cents per acre. He had to build a house and two barns and make improvements at a cost of about eight thousand dollars. Three years ago Mr. Grater sold 480 acres of unbroken prairie at fifteen dollars per acre, $7,200. In 1908 the remainder of his land was sold for $35.00 per acre, amounting to thirtytwo thousand dollars.

He immediately bought a half section of prairie land two and one half miles from Faulkton, a barn was erected, an artesian well 1280 feet deep, was put down, with an excellent flow of water.

In 1868, Mr. Grater was united in holy matrimony to Mi.ss Anna Mary Buchlman, who was born in Switzerland. To them have been born twelve children, viz: Joseph lyeo, who died at the age of seventeen years and seven months: Rosa M., who is proprietor of the Gem Hotel in the city of Faulkton; Joseph, who died when nineteen months old; Edward Lewis, William Joseph, Anna Mar\-, Clara Amelia, George, Gertrude, John, who died in infancv; Frank Alovsius and Agnes Theresa.

REV. ERNEST HOLGATE, the subject of this sketch, was born in England in January, 1879, and was -educated in the common and high .schools of that countr\-. In 1898 he commenced his studv for the ministr}- and in

1901 he was appointed assistant pastor of the First Methodist church of Brighton, England, where he continued to serve until his departure for America in October, 1903.

The Dakota Annual Conference of that year, while he was upon the Atlantic ocean on his way to the United States of America, appointed him to the pastorate of the Letcher Methodist church. At the next session in 1904, he was appointed to the Methodist Episcopal church in Chamberlain, and in 1905 to his present pastorate in Faulkton .

October 3d, 1903, three days before he sailed for America, he was united in holy matrimony with Miss Mary Hartley of Burnlay, England. To them have been born three children, viz: Clare, Everett and Francis.

HON. S. WESIvEY CLARK was born December 28th, 1872, at Plattville, Grant countv, Wisconsin, of English ancestry. His father, Samuel P. Clark, was born in the state of Vermont, and his mother Lizzie O. (Huntington) Clark was born at Liverpool, England.

The family moved to Dakota Territory, in July, 1882, and located in township 118, range 66, in Faulk count\'. There were only four other families in the county at that time, their nearest neighbor being three miles distant. Mr. Clark, Sr., stood among the most active and influential of Faulk county pioneers. A post office was promptly established and he became the first postmaster. A legal township organization was effected. Both the postoffice and town ship were named after the subject of this sketch, (Wesley).

home and where Mrs. Clark died in 1906, and the following year Mr. Clark, while east on a visit, died at Glenwood, Wisconsin . They were both buried at San Jose, California.

The subject of this sketch, then in his eighteenth year, was left in this county to look after their property interests, and enjoy the school advantages that had been built up in the new town of Wesley and subsequently finished his education at the college, at Redfield, where he has since made his home.

In 1887 he was admitted to the bar as a practicing attory; in 1900 he was elected states attorney of Spink county and served four years; in 1906, Mr. Clark was elected attorney general of South Dakota and in 1908 he was reelected to that office.

MRS. LOUISE BATTEEN was born in Germany. When only one year old her parents moved to Berlin, Wisconsin. In 1886, she married John Batteen and came to Faulk county. South Dakota, They located in what is the present township of Pioneer where she has since resided. On the 5th dav of October, 1904, Mr. Batteen died, leaving his wife Vv'ith eight minor children, two having died in infancy. Since that time Mrs, Batteen has administered on the estate, consisting of six quarter sections of land, to which she has since added three more, built a fine new house, and managed all her own business affairs. When they came to Dakota they were without any property. Now her 1440 acres of beautiful prairie land is all enclosed with good fences, and all but 400 acres under cultivation. With the experience of the average pioneer contending with drought and storms; climatic changes have brought abundant prosperity. Her personal property consists in ]iart of twenty head of horses, forty head of neat stock and fifty hog-s, three good buggies, with all farm machinery neccessarv to carry on her extensive farm interests. Mrs. Hatteen in addition to caring for her household affairs, has hauled grain to market, and is ever ready to a.ssist her sons, the oldest not yet twenty-one, to carry on the farm, and now without anv hired help.

WILLIAM R. HALL was born Augu.st 1st, 1858, in Carthage, New York. When eight 3^ ears of age his parents removed to Wayne, Du Page county, Illinois, where he enjoyed the advantages of the public schools, until fifteen years of age, at which time his parents removed to Sergeants Bluff, Iowa, where his home was until he was twenty-six years of age, employed in clerking, and employed b\- the railroad company ona year on the Pacific coast.

In 1884, he came to Faulk county, Territor\- of Dakota, and located on a homestead on the south-west quarter of section 8, township 118. range 69. After proving up his. homestead, Mr. Hall removed onto nis tree claim, being the north-east of section eighteen, in the same township, where he \-et resides.

Mr. Hall is one of theearly pioneers that passed through sunshine and storm, through hard.^hip and pii\ations, that none but those who start out in pioneer life' can fully realize; and now with his 480 acres of improved land, with a good set of farm buildings, and all necessary farm machinerv and a well stocked farm, is counted among the reliable, prosper cus ff.rmers of the county.

To them have been born two children, viz: MayE., now^ Mrs. J.J. Champlin, who now resides in the state of Oregon; and William J., who is still residing on the family homestead.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Faulkton Congregational church, and he is a memberof -the Modern Brotherhood of America. In politics he is identified and in sympathy with the republican party.

HENRY F. REED was born March 22, 1866, in Howard county, Iowa, and in April, 1882, came to Faulk county, with his father, who located in what is now Pioneer township. In 1889 he filed on his present homestead in the town of Wesley, where he has resided ever since and has the longest continuous residence in Faulk county of any of its citizens.

On January 26, 1893, he married Miss Margaret Holland formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, and to them have been born five children, viz: Henry E., Agnes E., E., Gertrude, and Eouise Frances.

Not only in his boyhood, but since his majority. Mr. Reed has known the struggles and privations of the pioneer settlers. For the last twelve years he has enjoyed a full share of McKinley prosperity. With his farm of 320 acres, all under cultivation, including hay land and pasture, he has made a success. With a happy home and each year increasing prosperity. Another four years along McKinley lines, and he will be satisfied.

REV. JOHN T. DAVIS was born at vSomersetshire, England, November 20, 1838. He came to New York in 1846, and soon afterwards moved with his parents to Canada, in 1851. In 1856 he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and for thirty-eight years he was actively engaged in the regular work, but in 1896 on account of advancing years and impaired health, he was compelled to ask of the Hamilton conference, of which he was a member, a superannuated relation and retire from the active work of the ministry.

Mr. Davis, having two sons residing in South Dakota,, decided to come to Faulk county and located at Orient,, where he and his estimable wife have since made their home. In April, 1909, fifty years after the>; were united in holy matrimony, they celebrated their golden wedding at their pleasant and happy home vvhich is located near the Methodist Episcopal church in the village of Orient.

REV. ANSON HART ROB BINS was born in Bristol Connecticut, on November 23, 1837. When three years of age his parents moved to Peoria county, Illinois.

In February, 1860. he went to Oberlin, Ohio, to perfect his education for the ministry, graduating from the college in 1865, aud from the theological seminary in 1870.. During that time he served in the army of the Union for two years, going out as a private with a company of college students and coming home as a first lieutenant.

Mr. Robbins served in the pastorate in Ohio twelve years,, coming to Dakota Territory in 1882, where he continued in that work thirteen years. After twenty-five years iii' the active work of the ministry, he was conscious thnt his.

physicial condition demanded a change, he then came to Orient and accepted the position of assistant cashier in the Orient bank, but after one year was compelled to give up active, steady employment on account of failing health.

On December 30, 1870 Mr. Robbins was married to Miss Lucy Kinnej^ and to them have been born five children, four of whom are now living: A son at Bozeman, Montana; another who is a graduate of Yankton college and two daughters: Mrs. Edwin Gooder of Orient, and Mrs. Owen Jones, of Sisseton, South Dakota.

WIIvLlAM McKAY was born in Scotland in 1858. In 1873 his parents emmigrated to the United States and located in the state of Minnesota. In 1885 he came to Dakota Territory and located in Arcade township, Faulk -county. For the past seven years he has been general manager of the business of Conway Bros., at Orient in this county. In 1899 Mr, McKay was united in marriage with Mrs. Lorena Runnels of Red Oak, Iowa. To them have been born two children, Milton and Dorothy, aged respectively 17 and 14 years.

SAMUEL E. CHAPMAN was born in Moskoka, Ontario, Canada, November 22, 1878. When eight years of age his parents moved to what is now the town of Wesley, in Faulk county, South Dakota. When nineteen years of age he commenced working from home and received his own wages. When twenty-one years old he filed on a home- ..stead on the north-west cpiarter of section 30, township 119, range 66 (now the town of Wesley). At the age of he married Miss Nina E. Thorn, who was born in the town of Ransom, Hillsdale county, Michigan. To them have been born three children, viz: Laurene Eva, Maurice Edward and Helen Violet.

In addition to his homestead he has two other adjoining quarters of the same section, in all 480 acres, two hundred of which are under cultivation. Mr. Chapman has principally confined himself to mixed farming, making a specialty of raising hogs and now has fift}^ head, and has just disposed of twenty-five more. He has twenty horses, good substantial farm buildings, and a fine flowing artesian well with a water motor for grinding feed. This year's crop yielded 4000 bushels of small grain and' 100 tons of hay. He has all the necessary machinery to work his farm and is counted among the independent and reliable farmers in east Faulk county.

THOMAS NESTOR was born in Eimerick, Ireland, in the year 1826. At the age of eighteen he came to the United States and located in Kentucky, where he remained for five years. He then came to Caledonia, Minnesota, where he married Miss Elizabeth McNevin, and resided in that town until June 16, 1894, when he removed to Faulk county, South Dakota. Uncle Tom, as he was familiarly known among his friends, would change sorrow to gladness with his jolly and kind disposition. With his family he was one of the first settlers located in Enterprise township. He drove overland from Athol in Spink county, forty miles from the railroad station and eighteen miles from the postoffice. At night the ceyotes could be heard in all directions and by day the antelopes were seen wandering over the prairies. All went well until June 10th, 1898, when his companion, the mother of his children, the youngest only two years old, passed on before to the great beyond, leaving husband and children lonely and desolate.

His happy genial disposition served him in these hours of sadness. Uncle Tom cheered up the best he could and kept his four boys in his bachelor home until 1903, when James and Thomas married and moved into their own homes.

James married Miss A. M. Brenneck, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Thomas Jr. married Miss Tena Titgen and left uncle Tom still batching, with the two younger sons, John and George, until July 10, 1907, when death came and took the one that had always been depended upon to cheer in the hour of sadness. He was laid to rest in Hoven cemetery, leaving four sons to mourn their great loss, James at Carlyle, Thomas on his farm and John and George the old homestead.

In 1879 he removed to Hancock county, Iowa, and in 1883 he moved to Faulk county. South Dakota. He now resides in Pulaski on his farm of 320 acres of valuable land' 150 acres under cultivation, with good farm buildings, and farm machinery, nine horses and twenty head of neat cattle.

Mr. Loken married Miss Carrie Guttenburg, and to them have been born three children. She died in 1887 and a second marriage was contracted with Miss Ida Olson in 1889.. To tbem has beau born five children. Mr. Loken is one of the successful pioneers who experienced the hardships of the early settlers of this county and now enjoys the prosperity that has come to them in later" years.

CORNELIUS HOGEBOOM was born in the state of New York in 1857 and with his parents came to the state of Wisconsin when about three years of age and to Faulk county in the spring of 1883, since which time he has been a continuous resident of the township of Hillsdale, Faulk county. On December 16th, 1877, he married Ermina Hammond at lyimoncase, Wisconsin. To them have been born two children, William and Thomas P., both of whom are married, William H., to Miss Emma Findeis and Thomas P., to Sadie Janes. William H., now resides in Hillsdale and Thomas P., in the town of Zell. -

Mr. Hogeboom has not only experienced the hardships and privations of pioneer life, but his reward is that prosperity which has come to so many of our Faulk county farmers. He is now one of our independent, retired farmers, pleasantly located in the village of Rockham.

WILIvlAM BYRNE, who is one of the representative farmers and stock growers of Faulk county, where he is the owner of a large and valuable stock ranch, is a native son of the great north-we.st, and has exemplified its progressive spirit in a marked degree, gaining success through his well directed efforts in connection with the industral developments of South Dakota, where he has maintained his home for the past twenty- five years, so he is entitled to be counted among the pioneers of Faulk county.

Mr. Byrne was born in Allamakee, county, Iowa, on the eighteenth of September, 1861, and is a son of Lawrence and Delia Byrne. William Byrne was raised on the homestead farm where he was born, and received his education in the excellent public schools of Iowa. He continued to be associated in the management of the homestead until 1882, when the property was sold and he then, with his mother and other members of the family, came to Dakota Territory. They passed the winter of that year in Turner county and the spring of 1883, came to the new county of Faulk, where each of the family entered claims on government land. The subject of this sketch took a preemption claim six miles east of Orient and one mile from the Miranda station, on the Chicago and North Western Railroad. Miranda is his postoffice address. He at once commenced the improvement, to which he has continued to add until nearly one thousand acres are under improvement, being devoted to the raising of wheat, oats, corn, barley and hay. He is giving his attention to the raising of high grade stock. His place has an excellent supply of pure water which may be secured at a depth of about sixteen feet upon any part of the ranch. Two years ago Mr. Byrne added to his valuable property by the erection of a fine residence with all modern improvements. He has also a herd of fine horses. Politically he is in accord with the principles and policies of the republican party and fraternally identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of the Maccabees.

On the 15th day of May, 1895, Mr. Byrne was married to Miss May Paul, who was born in Muscatine, Iowa, being a daughter of August Paul, who removed from that state to Dakota Territory- in 1884, locating in Faulk county » where he remained until 1894, when he removed to the state of Virginia, where he resided for several years, but is now a resident of Faulk county again. He is a native of Germany as is his wife, whose maiden name was Bertha Shulz. To Mr. and Mrs. Byrne have been born six children, viz: Paul, Raymond, Theodore, I<eanard, John and Robert.

I^LLSWORTH S. SECKNER, was born in New York,. December 14, 1861. In 1865 his parents moved to Wisconsin and in 1878 they removed to the .state of Iowa, and remained in that state until his removal to Dakota Territory, in 1884. Mr. Seckner located near the county line between Hand and Faulk counties and was counted as one of the EUisville settlement. There were hardships and privations without number, but amidst them all he neverlost faith in Dakota. He now has 320 acres of as. fine land as can be found in central South Dakota and in addition is renting three quarter sections. He has under fence three hundred acres. On his own land he has four fine wells of pure water, at a depth of 50 feet, with good farm buildings,, forty head of neat stock, fourteen horses, and fifty sheep. Mr. Seckner has everything to satisfy the average Dakota citizen. In 1886 Mr. Seckner was united in marriage with Chloe Miller from the state of New York,, and enjoys. a happy home.

HENRY CHAPMAN was born in England. July 1842, and came to Canada in 1877, and to P'aulk county in 1887, locating iu what is now the town of Wesley, where he took a homestead, to which he has added three more quarter sections. In addition to this valuable farm property he has added valuable town property. When he came to Faulk county he was comparatively a poor man. In April, 1905, on account of better climatic conditions, he removed to California with abundance of this world's goods to meet all reasonable worldly demands.

WILIvIAM H. MCAI.LEN was born July 11, 1857, at West Chazy, New York. His first business engagement was with O. K. Wood & Co., as a traveling salesman, where he was actively engaged for eight years. In the meantime he had taken up his residence in Wisconsin, where he resided until 1883, when he removed to Faulk county, Territory of Dakota, where he located government land, and where he has since resided. In addition to carrying on his farm, Mr. McAllen has been engaged in selling farm machinery.

His farm embraces all of section 15, township 119, north of range 68, west. He has 360 acres under fence for pasture and the remaining 280 acres are under cultivation. He has an extra good set of farm buildings, all neccessary farm machinery, sixty head of neat stock and nineteen head of horses.

In July 1896, he was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Matatty of Aberdeen, South Dakota. To them have been born five children, viz: Delia, Isabella, Viola, Frances, and Hubert.

he removed to Faulk county, South Dakota. On December 12, 1869, he married Miss Sarah F. Hawkins a native of Indiana. To them have been born six children, viz: Mary V., who in 1892 married Aaron Peck and resides in Canada, West; Lorenzo A., who is married and lives in this county; Chas. S.,w^ho is a resident of this county; Earl E., who resides in Bowman, North Dakota; Inez I., and Roy E., who are at home with their parents.

Mr. Voss has a farm of 480 acres, 200 acres under cultivation, good farm building-s, all necessary farm machinery, twenty head of horses and forty-five head of neat stock. His home is two and one-half miles from a railway station. After twenty-three years residence in this county, today he stands among the happy, satisfied, and contented Faulk county farmers.

A. F. PAGEE is one of the worthy pioneer citizens of Orient, having located there in 1883. He has had a large share of the hardships of pioneer life. He is nowwell established in a good paying business and counted among the reliable, prosperous, business men of that town.

H. G. WEIDEMAN came to Orient in 1887, where he has had a continued residence up to the present time. Mr. Weideman is now in the emploj^ of the Conway Bros, in their extensive merchandise business in that village.

ELVIN W. FORD was born May 30, 1857, in Fulton county, Ohio. In the spring of 1883 he came to P^aulk county, South Dakota, and located in what is now the town of Union, and exercised his homestead right upon the laud; he now lives upon; to this quarter section he has added two more. Upon his farm of 480 acres of v-aluable land Mr. Ford has seen all sides of Dakota life. First came failure of crops, disappointment, hardship and a struggle for existence. The last and hardest was when his entire crop was destroyed by hail. Financially no progress was made for the first ten or twelve years. On June 2nd, 1884, he was married by Judge Hardy at LaFoon, to Miss lyunetta Smith, who was born in Hillsdale, Hillsdale county, Michigan.

Mr. and Mrs. Ford have the honor of being the first couple married in the newly organized county of Faulk, if not by the newly appointed j udge. To them have been born four children, viz: Grace M., Hazel M., Glenn F., and Harold M. Mr. Ford has 160 acres of lan4 under improvement. He has fifteen head of horses, thirty head of neat cattle, and ten hogs. His new bouse now completed, an illustration of which is to appear in this history is equal to the best in the county. Mr, Ford has served on the board of county commissioners and is an active member of the school board.

EDWARD FORD. Near and almost adjoining this valuable home and farm is another beautiful farm home and occupied by Mr. Ed ard Ford another son of the Buckeye state (a brother) who was born in October, 1859. Mr. Ford was away from home on business which prevents a write up of which any pioneer might be proud.

Wisconsin. In 1876 he was married and moved to Arcade township in this county. In 1895 he removed to Hillsdale township where he now resides.

HENRY SCHAEFER was born in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1862. And in 1883 became a citizen of the town of Zell, in Faulk county, South Dakota, where he has since resided.

In 1900 he married Amelia Rose of Miranda, in this county. He now is the possessor of 640 acres of Faulk county real estate which with his improvements is easily worth forty dollars per acre. Mr. Schaefer may be counted among the contented, well to do, reliable Faulk county farmers.

CHARLES E. YORK came to Faulk county in 1883, and located in what is now the town of Welsey, with a full share of Dakota experience. Mr. York has acquired a half section of Dakota land, good farm buildings, two hundred and sixty acres under cultivation, and is one of the experienced and reliable citizens who has faith in Dakota lands and well understands the advantages and importances of keeping abreast with the successful enterprising Dakota pioneer farmer.

WILLIAM E. FINLEY was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, on July 24, 1869 came to South Dakota in the spring of 1892, and November 16, 1893, married Miss Clara A.

Larson, of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Mr. Finley escaped much of the hardships and disappointments of the earliest settlers. At the end of two years he filed a homestead on the land where he now resides and to this quarter section he has added five more, and now owns 1000 acres of the best of Dakota soil worth forty dollars per acre. Five hundred acres under cultivation. A good artesian well, 24 horses, fifty head of neat stock and fifty hogs. Here is another $40.00 per acre farm all acquired before the fortieth mile stone is reached.

MRS. BERTHA KERN was born in Germany in 1864. Her maiden name was Bertha Kiemp. In 1886, she came to Faulk county, and that fall, married James Kern. To them have been born nine children, viz: Annie, who is married to Otto Luch and lives in Reed City, Michigan, Herman, Robert, Otto, Frank, Emma and Bertha. Eight years ago they located upon their present home farm, -consisting of of 480 acres of valuable land. Two hundred and twenty-five acres under cultivation. She has extra fine farm buildings, all improved farm machinery, eight- -een horses, forty head of neat stock, and twenty hogs. Mr. Kern died about two years ago. Since that time Mrs. Kern has, with her sons, had remarkable success in carrying on the farm. The oldest son is less tnan twenty years of age, yet with the mother's aid and guiding hand., the farm receives the best of cultivation as shown by the abundant yield.

county on October 26, 1885. He married Miss Ida Kahn, who was born of German parentage, in the state of Wisconsin. To them have been born six children, four of whom are now living. Hulda, is married to William Wagner, a resident of the township of Myron, in this county; Leo, Florence and Alone, who are yet a part of the family circle.

Fifteen years ago Mr. Korupp purchased one quarter section, a part of his homestead. Here the drought, the hot winds and hail destroyed the crops, the cold stormy winters, the scarcity of fuel to keep warm, made one continuous struggle. But a heroic effort was made and today there is a change of conditions. To that quarter section he has added four more and erected a fine set of buildings. Four hundred acres are under cultivation, all necessary farm machinery, fifteen fine horses, and fort}^ head of neat stock and twenty hogs, help to keep up the fertility of his well improved farm.

JOHN M. McGRATH was born September, 1857, at Elgin, Illinois. When six years of age his mother died, leaving three children, himself and one sister, (Mary A.) older than himself, and one younger, (Sarah) of whom he has lost all knowledge. The famih^ with which he made his home moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa. When eighteen years of age he went to Cedar county, Iowa, and his home was in the state of Iowa until he came to Faulk county, in 1885.

Mr. McGrath married Miss Martha I. Golden of Cedar county, Iowa, December 9, 1880. To them have been born six children, five of whom are now living, viz: Emej-y

E., Alvin E., Edna A., Alta M., and Elsie V. Emery E. married Miss Dora Cloutier, July 17, 1901, and to them have been born four children. Alvin E- married Miss Olive Smith July 21, 1909.

Mr. McGrath's other children are yet at the family home in Pulaski township in this county, where he removed with his family in January, 1885. When he came to this county he had very little of this world's goods, but after coming he had a full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life. And in 1892 he was $800.00 in debt and not a dollar above what was required to support his family. But since that time there has been steady and growing prosperity. All debts have been paid and he now owns a farm of four hundred and seventy acres, three hundred and thirty of which are under cultivation and the remainder in a well fenced pasture; and one of the best set of farm buildings in Faulk county, only three and one half miles from a railroad station. The best of modern improved farm machinery, ten head of horses, thirty head of neat stock and seventy-five hogs. Few, if any of the first .settlers of this county, are in better circumstances with more desirable surroundings. Mr. McGrath has not only found time for the accomplishment of much results, but has served on the board of town supervisors twelve years and is at the present time chairman of the board, as well as chairman of the township school board.

R. JUNGWIRTH was born in Austria, in 1866, came to this country and settled at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he remained three years; from there he came to Faulk county and settled in Zell in 1885. Since that time he has been in the employ of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad company nearly nineteen years. For the last two and one-half years he has been in the saloon business.

FRANK BRUGGE MAN, the son of Frang- and Catherine Bruggeman was born in Germany in 1877 and came to this country with his parents in his childhood. In 1883 he came to this county and settled at Zell^ and for the last five years he has been engaged in the sale of general mer~ chandise and is doing a prosperous business.

PHILIP KOLEGRAFF was born in Germany in 1856. When about two years of age his parents came to America and located in Monroe county, Wisconsin^ where they remained until he was twenty-two years of age. From there he removed to Wabasha county, Minnesota, where he mar-^ ried Miss Mary Demming in 1878. In the spring of 1884 he came to Zell in this county. To tliem have been born six children,, viz: Frank, Edward,, William^ Mary, Lucy and George. Frank died when thirteen years of age; Ediward was married to Annie Harder and to them has been born one child, Clarence, who is now three years old. Mr. Kolegrajf has experienced all the ups and downs of pioneer life. No man can tell him of the failure of crops ^ drought,, or hail, of the privations and hardships experienced by the average Faulk county farmer,, yet he had the courage toremain and is now reaping his reward. With 1,200 acres, of rich prairie land and two sets of good farm buildings, with thirty-five head of horses, and a good supply of neat stock, with a full supply of farm machinery, the tax collector always finds him ready to meet his share of the public expenditures..

ANDREW SIME was born July 5, 1860, in Norway, and came to the United States in 1882. . Came to Dakota and settled in Moody county, and in 1885 took a homestead in Faulk county and the following years made his permanent residence here.

In 1886 he married Miss Bertha Wonge, who was born in Norway in 1858. To them have been born six children, viz: Arthur, Annie, Ed, Belle, George and Clie. Mr. Sime has 640 acres of land, 300 acres under cultivation, the remainder in a fenced pasture.

A new house was built last year at a cost of $3000.00, his barn built four years ago at a cost of $1000.00 and all necessary outbuildings for ft first class farm home. He is within easy distance of Millard on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Wecota on the Minneapolis & St. Louis Raihvay, and Faulkton on both the Chicago & North- Western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railways. All of this property has been acquired since coming to Faulk county and together with his twenty head of horses, fifty head of neat stock and twenty head of hogs, could not be bought for less than $25,000.00.

Mr. Sime is surrounded by a number of Scandinavian neighbors and is one mile from an English school, and has not only a good desirable home but surroundings where he can enjoy a happy life.

A. B. CLIFFORD was born March 16th, 1849, in Van Buren county, Michigan. Engaged in farming and telegraph operating. In 1886 he removed to Faulk county :and located in what is now the town of DeVoe. In 1880 lie married Miss Kate B. Blacknian, of Muscatine, lowy.

To tliem has been born one son, Perry, who is now seventeen years of age and in his second year in the Aberdeen high school. Mr. Clifford is one of our successful enterprising pioneer farmers.

He has one section of valuable land one mile south of the DeVoe postoffice, 380 acres under cultivation and the balance in a well fenced pasture of natural grasses. His house has an acti!al value of $3500.00 and he has all necessary farm buildings and farm machinery. He has fourteen head of horses, ninety-four head of neat stock. The actual cash value of his posessions, all of which has been accumulated since coming to this county, cannot be valued at less than thirty- five thousand dollars.

JACOB GABLER was born in Germany, October 28,. 1850. When about two years old his parents emigrated to> the United States and located in the stats of New York. After -ten years residence there they removed to the state of Wisconsin. In the spring of 1883,, he came Faulk county, South Dakota.

In 1870 he married Miss Katie Wagner, of Wisconsin. To them have been born eight children, viz: John, Mary, Anna, Emma, Zetta, Lizzie, Henry F., and Olive, all of whom are living in South Dakota.

Mr. Gabler has 480 acres of land in the town of Emerson, three miles from a railroad station,, three hundred acresunder cultivation the remainder an enclosed pasture. Extra good farm buildings, all farm machinery, twenty-two. thousand dollars would not be an offer worth considering.. Mr. Gabler is in the strictest sense a worthy pioneer settler, who, has^een all sides of Dakota life.

ARTHUR W. ELLIS, son of Caleb H. and Lydia E. (Haines) Ellis, was born at Fort Fairfield, Aroastook county, Maine, June 7th, 1852. When he was about fifteen years of age his parents mov^ed to the state of Michigan, where his home was until 1883 when he moved to Beadle county, Territory of Dakota. In 1886 he moved to Ellisville, Faulk county and in 1891 he located in Faulkton where he has resided until the present time.

On October 14th, 1877, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Hannah Bates, of Camden, Hillsdale county, Michigan. To them was born one daughter, Mabel Winnefred Ellis, whose death occurred at Clinton, Iowa, July 4th, 1908, jxist twelve days after her marriage. On April 18th, 1895, there was a second marriage, to Mrs. Nellie L. Warren, of Faulkton, South Dakota, where they have sinceresided at their pleasant home on Ninth Avenue.

Mrs. Warren was born November 6th, 1858, in Oberlin, Ohio, where she grew up to womanhood, and enjoyed the advantages of the Oberlin celebrated schools. After her marriage to Mr. Warren, of Sandusky, Ohio, on January 27th, 1881, the}^ resided in that city until their removal to Spink county, the spring of 1886. From this union there -was born, November 8th, 1884, .one son, Ralph E. Warren, who has grown up to manhood in this city.

Socially Mr. Ellis is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of the Maccabees and Mrs. Ellis is a member of ths Ladies of the Maccabees and the Rebekahs, the ladies organization of the order of Odd Fellows. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Peter Norbeck is a native born Dakotan, thirty-nine years old, who has the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. He has not only been successful in business, but has taken an interest in public affairs. He is now a member of the state legislature.

Charles L. Nicholson the junior member of the firm, came with his parents to Dakota Territory from Chicago, Illinois, when eight years old. Mr. Nicholson is now thirty-six years old. For the last seven years this firm has been engaged in drilling deep artesian wells, and in manufacturing and handling well drilling supplies. They were the first to introduce the cheap artesian wells into Faulk county. When they came into the county to drill wells, there was only one flowing well in the county, and that was the old Faulkton city well, which had cost about $8,000 and had never been a success.

What is true of Faulk county, is true of the state; they have been the pioneers in the artesian well business, or rather were the first men to put the artesian well business in the reach of the people, making a price that the settlers could afford to pay, thus making it possible for them to utilize the life-giving force, not only for drinking purposes but for power.

The liberal policy of this enterprising firm is clearh'^ demon.strated b}^ the rapid increase of wells in this county,, there now being nearly four hundred of them which are bringing vast quantities of pure sparkling water to the surface, not only a blessing to man and beast, but completely changing atmospheric conditions, transforming a semi-arid region with its drought and hot winds, with faihire of crops, to ideal homes, abundant harvests and many times doubling the price of land, above what it was worth under former conditions.

WILLIAM H. RICE was born at Waupaca, Waupaca county, Wisconsin, June 26th, 1858, and resided there until 1890, when he came to South Dakota, locating at Faulkton, where he published the Faulk County Record for about three years in connection with M. P. Springer. In 1896, lie moved back to Wisconsin, returing toP'aulkton, again in 1900. In 1906 he purchased the Faulkton Record and has been identified with its publication ever since.

On April 24th, 1893, he was married to Miss Emma R. Oertel, of Waupaca, Wisconsin, and to them has been born one child, Grace, now fifteen years of age.

Mr. Rice is of American parentage, his father., Henry H. Rice, having been born and raised in Chautauqua county. New York, and a great grandfather was a surgeon in the revolutioriary army. -

Socially Mr. Rice is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Politically he has always been identified with the republican partv and is at the present time chairman of the Faulk county republican central committee.

was among the early settlers of Faulk county and took an interest in social and political alTairs. In politics lie was an earnest and devoted friend and an able and honest opponent. In the campaign that culminated in the admission of South Dakota as a state, Mr. Metz was an intelligent and active worker, and an influential leader among his

FRED H. POTTER was born in the state of New York in January, 1864. He came to South Dakota in 1889 and located at Hitchcock, Beadle county and worked in the flour mill there for one and one-half years. In August, 1891 , he went to Mellette and build and ran a roller process flour mill in which he installed an electric light plant and ran it by artesian power He closed out his business at Mellette in 1901. In 1907 he located in the new and enterprising town of Cresbard in this county and engaged in the hotel business in which he has been very successful.

F. E. CLARK was born January 17, 1850, in Hartford, Connecticut and came to Faulk county, South Dakota, in August, 1883, locating in what is now the town of Pioneer.

Mr. Clark married Mi.ss Kate Avery in Cresco, Iowa, in June, 1880 and to them have been born five children. He now resides on his original homestead, which he took in 1883. Eike others he had hardships and privations, but ten years ago the tide turned and prosperity followed. He now has a well cultivated farm, a good set of farm buildings and contentment, happiness and perfect satisfaction with his surroundings have followed.

CHRISTIAN GREENER was born May 24, 1842, in Germany. In 1852 his parents immigrated to the United States and remained in the city of New Orleans for one year, then removed to St. Eouis, Missouri, and from there to Dubuque, Iowa, where he remained with his parents until he was fifteen years of age. Then another move was made to Lancaster, Grant county, Wisconsin, where he resided until 1880. In that year he moved to Blue Earth county, Minnesota and after a three years residence there, in 1883 came to Dakota Territory, locating in Hand county. In the spring of 1891 Mr. Greener became a resident of Faulk county and located in Faulkton where he has since resided.

On October 5th, 1866, he was united in marriage with Miss Albina E. Taylor of Lancaster, Wisconsin, and to them have been born seven children, viz: Edward E., who died in his ninth year; Charles T., who is married, has a daughter seven years old and resides in Faulkton; Carrie, who married Frank Benning and resides in Hand county, South Dakota, with a family of six children; Annie May, who died in infancy; Ednah V., who married Robert Corhett, of Hand county, South Dakota and moved to Port Arthur, Texas. In 1905 she died leaving three children; Grace, who was born after they removed to Dakota, is married to Levi Hurd and resides in Hand county. South Dakota and is the mother of one child; and Wilber Liucoln who is yet at home attending the Faulkton city schools.

In 1853 Mr. Greener enlisted in Company E. First Wisconsin Cavalry and was mustered out at the end of the war. He is a member of the Phil Sheridan Post, Grand Army of the Republic at Faulkton. Mr. and Mrs. Greener

C. B. CHAMBERS, was born in Lancaster county,. Pennsylvania,, June 19, 1S49. His father, Abraham Chambers, a native of the same county and. state, was born December 12, 1819. He was an iron smelter by trade, following farming the last active years of his life. Subsequently he came to Faulk county. Territory of Dakota, and made his home with the subject of this sketch, where he died. He was a descendent of Abraham Chambers who served in the Revolutionary War on the American side, and his uncle General Robert Chamber was one of the founders of Chambersburg, Peiinysylvania. The mother of our subject, Ann Mary (Atkinson) Chambers, was a native of Pennsylvania,. of English ancestry. Her father,^ John Atkinson, was born at Kendall, England, and was a son of R-obert Atkinson. He came to America, when a bOy,, previous to the Revolutionary War.

The subject of this sketch was the second son in a family of seven children, and was reared in Indianapolis, Indiana,, where the family had moved in 1854. His father and oldest brother entered the service in the Union Army in the Civil War from Indiana. The subject of this, sketch attended the city schools at Indianapolis, and at. the age of seventeen years left home and went to Iowa, where he hired to his uncle and remained with him two years. His father then moved to Iowa,, and this son went into partnership with him, and engaged in farming in Green county, until 18.83, when he came to Dakota Territory and squattfi.d: on the north-west quarter of section 7, township 120, north, range 66, west. He later filed a tree claim on other land and filed a homestead on the south-east quarter of the same section. He erected a shanty 8x10 on the tree claim, but lived with neighbors across the road.

His parents came to Dakota in the spring of 1884, and resided on section 10, township 120, range 67, where the subject of this sketch established a general store, and was also postmaster of the Roanoke postoffice for seven years, which was located at his store, while his father ran the mail route from Roanoke to Northville, in Spink county. In 1889 he permanently located on his homestead on section 7, township 120, range 66, and continued to flo business until 1894, since which time he has engaged in farming, has been a dealer in real estate, justice of the peace, and notary public.

When he located in Dakota in 1883, he had many experiences; among them, encountering swollen streams, while hauling his goods to his farm in the spring of 1884. His crops were hailed out in that year, and again in 1898, but they averaged ten bushels per acre. He had two teams and some farming machinery, when he started for Dakota and in 1899 owned six quarter sections of land, abou.t five hundred acres of which were under plow; he had a complete set of farm buildings, and raised wheat, cattle and horses. He had thirty-four head of stock on his farm, including one registered Percheron stallion named Black Diamond. In 1900 he removed to Faulkton, and engaged in real estate business to which he has given his attention up to the present time. He has a residence in Faulkton, an illustration of which may be seen on Page 493 of this history, Mr,

THOMAS EUGENE BICKEEL was bom at Myrtle,, Bon Homme county. South Dakota, December 28.th, 1881, and resided with his parents on a farm until 1891 when they removed to Tyndall, South Dakota, where the subject of our sketch received his education in the public and high schools of that city. When sixteen years of age he entered the Tyndall Register as an apprentice, and after serving two years on that paper,, accepted a position with The Bon Homme County News, another paper published at Tyndall. In 1891 he came to Faulkton and accepted a position with

H. S. Koon, editor of the Faulkton Advocate, and a year later when this paper was sold to Fremont Young, was employed as foreman until June, 1908, when he associated himself with W. H. Rice in the publication of The Faulkton Record, under the firm name of Bickell & Rice.

Mr. Bickell is of English parentage,, his father G. I.. Bickell, having been born at Brandtford,. Canada, and his. mother at Banbury, England, the latter coming with her parents to the United States when only two years of age.

Socially,. Mr. Bickell is a member of the Masonic order^ The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Brotherhood of America. Politically he has always, been, identified witii the repubjicaa party..

GEORGE A. MORSE was born October 4th, 1827, at Weston, near Boston, Massachusetts. The Morse family came to this country from London, England, in 1635, settling in Middlesex county, Massachusetts.

Mr. Morse was born in one of the old family faim houses erected near the beginning of the last century, and lived upon the old farm until he was seventeen, when he was employed four years as a clerk in a store in Boston situated near the Old State House and Old South Church. On June 17, 1842, the completion of Bunker Hill monument was celebrated, and Mr. Morse, then a fifteen year old boy, stood near the platform and heard Daniel Webster deliver his famous speech, and saw the one hundred and thirty-two aged soldiers of the revolution, occupying seats of honor on the platform. He heard speeches delivered in Old Faneuil Hall by Charles Sumner, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Daniel Webster, Robert C. Winthrop, Rufus Choate, Father Matthew and other prominent men of that time.

He was married September 12, 1.850, to Caroline Merrill, a teacher in the Dwight school in Boston, and they immediately left for their new home in Illinois, making the trip from Buffalo to Detroit on the old steams Mayflower, crossing the state of Michigan by the Michigan Central, and thence by boat to Chicago, there being no railway into Chicago from the east at that time.

P'or three years the family lived at Peoria and Galesburg, Illinois, and in March, 1853, Mr, Morse went ahead -of the new line of railway, and became the first settler, and erected the first building in the city of Kewaunee, Henry 'County , Illinois, now a ciiy of 12,000 inhabitants. He was engaged in the farm machinery and grain business at Kewaunee until 1864, when he removed to Chicago and went into business with his brother Albert. He was in the Chicago convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860.

In August, 1869, he again took up pioneer life, settling in the new town of Corning, Iowa, where he lived until 1883. In the fall of 1876 he was elected to the Iowa legislature and reelected in 1878. On March 14, 1883, he came to Faulkton, South Dakota, when it contained onlj^ four buildings.

With his two sons, Albert and Charles, he took up government land five miles south of town. His first wife, Caroline Morse, died July 11, 1887, and on January 14, 1891, he was married to Marietta Talcott, who survives him. He served two terms as mayor and was clerk of the school board from 1892, until his death, in 1905, and was also for several years president of the Faulk County Old Settlers Association. He was loved and esteemed b}^ a large number of friends, who will mourn with his wife and children their sad loss. His four surviving children are: Albert W., president of the Security State Bank; Charles A., in the real estate business, at Knoxville, Tennessee; Mrs. P. M. Conklin, of Omaha, and Mrs. C. C. Norton, of Faulkton.