Yankton County
BIOGRAPHIES
Yankton County
BIOGRAPHIES
CRAWFORD, Coe Isaac (1858—1944)
Senate Years of Service: 1909-1915 Republican
Coe Isaac Crawford, a Senator from South Dakota; born near Volney, Allamakee County, Iowa, January 14, 1858; attended the common schools and was instructed by a private tutor; graduated from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1882; admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Independence, Iowa; moved to Pierre, Territory of Dakota, in 1883 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Hughes County in 1887 and 1888; member, Territorial council 1889; upon the admission of South Dakota as a State was elected as a member of the first State senate; attorney general of South Dakota 1892-1896; unsuccessful Republican candidate in 1896 for Representative at Large to the Fifty-fifth Congress; attorney for the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. for the area around South Dakota 1897-1903, when he resigned; moved to Huron in 1897; Governor of South Dakota 1907-1908; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1914; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Claims (Sixty-second Congress); resumed the practice of law in Huron, S.Dak., until 1934, when he retired from active business and political life; died in Yankton, S.Dak.., April 25, 1944; interment in Municipal Cemetery, Iowa City, Iowa.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.
DILLON, Charles Hall (1853—1929)
Charles Hall Dillon, a Representative from South Dakota; born near Jasper, Dubois County, Ind., December 18, 1853; attended the public schools; was graduated from the academic department of Indiana University at Bloomington in 1874 and from its law department in 1876; was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice in Jasper, Ind.; moved to Marion, Iowa, in 1881, to Mitchell, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota), in 1882 and to Yankton in 1894 and continued the practice of law; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1900 and 1908; member of the State senate 1903-1911; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1919); was not a candidate for reelection in 1918; resumed the practice of law in Yankton; moved to Vermillion, S.Dak., in 1922, having been elected associate justice of the State supreme court, and served until November 15, 1926, when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate for nomination as United States Senator in 1924; retired in 1926; died in Vermillion, S.Dak., September 15, 1929; interment in Yankton Cemetery, Yankton, S.Dak.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.
Edgar J. Anderson—born in England in 1847; came to America in 1859, and settled with his parents in Racine, Wisconsin; in 1881 he came to Yankton; married Miss E. Kirkman. They have three children.
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J. B. Ashley—born in Indiana, in Warwick county, in 1856; came west in 1879, and settled near the Jim River, in Dakota; came to Yankton and established a meat market in 1881, the firm name being Maxwell and Ashley.
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J. H. Balmat—was born in Ohio, January 3d, 1848; came to Kansas City in 1868, in 1869 he went to Des Moines, Iowa; in 1871 he came to Dakota; married Mary McMackin; she died May the 8th, 1879; have two children, Jennie M. and Joseph L.
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Gen. William H. Beadle—born at Rockville, Ind., in 1838; graduated at the University of Michigan, a member of the celebrated class of 1861, nearly all of whom immediately enlisted in the service of their country for the war of the Rebellion. Subsequently graduated from the Law Department of the University in the class of 1867; enlisted as a private in the 31st Ind. Volunteer infantry, in 1861; promoted First Lieutenant, Sept 3d, 1861; Captain November 9th, 1861; Lieutenant Colonel 1st Michigan sharpshooters, November, 1862, and Colonel, in 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps for disability, caused by wounds and sickness June 14th. 1864; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel for "gallantry in defense of Washington;" Colonel for "gallant and meritorious services," and Brigadier-General for " gallant and meritorious services during the war; "was private secretary to Gov. A. W. Howard, of Dakota; Surveyor-General of Dakota from 1869 to 1873; commissioner to revise and codify the laws of Dakota 1875 and '76; member Dakota legislature in 1877; since February, 1870, Territorial Superintendent of Instruction; married to Ellen S. Chapman, of Albion, Michigan, May 1863, and has three daughters.
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E. A. Odiorne—born in Vermont in 1853; came west in 1877, and settled in Yankton; engaged in his present business in 1881.
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Hon. Nehemiah Ordway—Governor of Dakota; a native of Warner, Merrimac Co., N. H., and is 52 years old; Col. Ordway has led a very active, business and political life, engaging when quite young in mercantile pursuits, and has subsequently been connected with numerous important business enterprises, serving for many years as president of the Kearsarge National and Kearsarge Savings Banks, in his native town; in 1855 was elected Sergeant-at-Arms in the New Hampshire Legislature, and afterwards serving a clerk; in 1857, at the close of the legislative session, was appointed High Sheriff of his native county, for five years, which position he resigned in 1861 to accept the appointment of General Mail Superintendent for the New England States; in 1862 was commissioned as Colonel by the Governor of New Hampshire, and in December, 1863, was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States House of Representatives for the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving six consecutive elections and filling that office for twelve years; at the close of the last session of the Forty-Third Congress Col. Ordway returned to New Hampshire, and was elected from his native town to the lower House of the New Hampshire legislature, and was re-elected in 1876-'77, and also served during that period in the Constitutional convention, and at the head of a tax commission which re-organized the whole tax system of the state; was elected under the amended constitution in November 1878, to the State Senate for two years; during the fifteen years since Col. Ordway became an officer in the National House of Representatives he was connected with several important business enterprises in the District of Columbia; Col. Ordway was appointed Governor of Dakota to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Gov. Howard; his nomination was reported unanimously from the Committee on Territories, and promptly and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate; he reached Yankton and assumed office June 27, 1880; in July and August of that year he made an extended tour through the Territory, and aided in sending an elaborate exhibition car, containing agricultural and mineral products of Dakota, to the New England and other state fairs in the Eastern and Middle States; his report to the Secretary of the Interior made in November, 1880, gave a comprehensive statement of the condition of the Territory; his first biennial message, delivered in person to the Legislative Assembly, containing thirty-two closely-printed pages, gave a complete and concise history of the condition and requirements of the Territory; his recommendations in regard to the necessity for the erection of an Insane Asylum and a Territorial Penitentiary, were favorably acted upon by the Legislative Assembly.
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Warren Osborn—Deputy-Sheriff, was born in Erie County, Ohio, in 1840; he came west in 1855, and settled in Freeborn County, Minnesota, in 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Second Minnesota; discharged August 1,1865, he returned to Minnesota and engaged in the mercantile business; in 1866 he removed to Yankton; in 1879 he was appointed to his present position; married to Mary J. Thomas; they have four children
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H. W. Pike—grocer; was born in Ohio in 1848; in 1867 he came west and located in Yankton; in 1878 he engaged in the grocery business; he married Sophia Flick; they have three children, M. CM Harry L. and an infant.
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I. Piles—was born in Ohio in 1848; he came to Council Bluffs and lived until 1873; he then removed to Yankton and engaged in his present business; he married in 1873, Miss Florence A. King.
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Thaddeus Pisek—comb-maker; established business 1879; born in Bohemia; came to America in 1869 and settled in Dakota; married Rosa Moe, of Bohemia; have four children—Annie, Mary, Johanna, Bowley.
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J. P. Redaelli—born in northern Italy, in April 1825; came to America in 1871; served as a volunteer in the old country in the revolution; married Jane Revell.
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Wm. Reinhardt—city marshal; born in Wisconsin in 1856; in 1878 he came to Yankton and was engaged as instructor in the Yankton gymnasium; he married in 1877; he has one daughter— Hattie.
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Owen Bartlett—born in Ireland in 1845, in 1863 he enlisted in the 33d Iowa, and served until the close of the war; came to Yankton in 1865 and was engaged in the liquor business until 1870. In 1873 he engaged in his present business.
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John O. Bates—dealer in gents' furnishing goods; born in Milan, Ohio, in 1848; came to Yankton in 1870; in 1873 he engaged in his present business.
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Dr. Walter Atwood Burleigh—a native of Waterville, Kennebec county, Maine; from 1861 to 1864 Dr. Burleigh was agent of the Yankton Indians, and from 1864 to 1868 was delegate to Congress from Dakota In the winter of 1877 he represented Yankton county in the upper branch of the Territorial Legislature, and was chosen president of the council; he has been largely engaged in the steamboating trade of the upper Missouri, having owned or been interested in the steamboats Miner, Carroll, Black Hills and Gen. Terry, and has been quite prominently identified with the history of the tertory (sp territory). His residence is still at Yankton, although he has extensive business interests at Miles City, Montana.
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John Becker—born in Germany in 1836; came to America in 1865, and the following year settled in Yankton; was engaged in the mercantile business until 1871; he then engaged in the hotel business.
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Leo Biermeyer—was born in Germany, in 1836; came to America the 17th day of June, 1866; settled in Dakota in 1869; he married Julia Schenk, a native of Germany; they have six children, Emily, Mollie, Josephine, Julia, Johnnie and Lizzie.
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Hon. S. A. Boyles—born in Indiana in 1841; was educated at the State University in July, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, 18 Indiana; promoted to First Lieutenant in the spring of 1862; resigned in the winter of 1864, and returned to Indiana; admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1868, elected state attorney from Clay county, Ill., in 1872; resigned the position in 1874 and removed to Hudson county; in 1876 he came to Yankton; was a member of the legislature in 1880, served as chairman judiciary committee. In 1869 he married Mattie Dillin.
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Joseph Bader—was born in Germany in 1832; in 1852 he came to America, and located in Galena, Illinois, and engaged in boot and shoe trade; in 1854 he went to Wabasha, Minnesota, and engaged in mercantile business; in 1874 he went to St. Paul, where he lived until 1875; he then removed to Yankton and opened up the Minnesota Hotel.
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George A. Baker—was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1847; came west and settled in Minnesota in 1854; and from there he came west with Ben. Hart's army train, and settled in Dakota; served in the army 3 years and 11 months under Robert Cook; was a prisoner fourteen months in Andersonville and Bell Island; after he came out he received a commission as 2d Lieutenant; married Lottie Stewart, of Leavenworth, Kansas; have two children, George T. and Frances L.
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John Bramsen—born in Schleswig, Germany, in 1848; came to America in 1866; settled in Yankton. Dakota Territory, in 1870; married Mary Thompson; have four children, Eric, Dick, Freddie and Katie.
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Jacob Brauch—was born in Switzerland in 1826; came to America in 1852, and settled in St. Louis; married Annie Brezhlel (who died in 1876); then married Mary Rizli; have eight children, Adolph, Emil (?), Gust, Robert, Augustus. Julius, Albert and Frank, Mr. Brauch served in the army in the old country two years.
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Michael Brennan—was born in Ireland the 19th of July, 1842; came to America in August, 1865, and settled in Council Bluffs, Iowa; came to Dakota in 1877; married Kate Walsh, of Yankton, D. T.; have one child named Ann, aged five months.
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W. M. Bristol—principal of public schools; was born in Connecticut in 1839; he is a graduate of Yale College of 1860; in 1864 he enlisted a private in the 13th Wisconsin Light Battery; he was promoted to Lieutenant, and then 1st Lieutenant; and afterwards detailed to go to the ordnance department at New Orleans; he remained in New Orleans a year and a halt after the close of the war; he then entered the Theological Seminary of Andover, Massachusetts, remaining two years; he soon alter located at Ripon, Wisconsin, where he remained five years as Professor of Latin of Ripon College; from there he went to Atlanta, Georgia; thence he came to Yankton; he married Rose E. Olds, of Minnesota.
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W. H. H. Brown—dentist; born in Pennsylvania in 1840; came west in 1879, and located in Yankton; he is one of the leading dentists of the city; married in 1876 to Miss Adella Van Tassel, a native of Pennsylvania.
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Chas. Broderson—born in Prussia in 1834; served one year in Prussian war, and eighteen months in the Danish army, receiving a medal from the King of Denmark for bravery in the war of 1864; he came to Yankton in 1869, and went into the mercantile business; in 1873 he engaged in hotel business.
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H. J. Brisbine—born in Ohio in 1825; came to Yankton and opened first farm west of Yankton; has held the office of Judge of Probate and other county offices; he has seven children; Milton and H. E. reside in Yankton; H. E. holding a responsible position in the store of Jacob Max.
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F. Burgi—born in Monroe, Green county, Wisconsin, in 1855; November 17, 1875. moved to Dubuque, where he lived one year; from thence he moved to Dakota Territory, and settled in the vicinity of Yankton; he married Leora J. Ryan, of Indiana, afterwards of Dubuque; have one child eight months old, named Freddie.
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Gottfried Burgi—was born in Switzerland, city of Berne, in 1845; came to America in 1868, and settled in Monroe, Wisconsin; lived in Chicago three years; then came to Dakota; he married Mary Korth; they have five children, Rosa, Henry, Adolph, Ella and Louisa.
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John Campbell—of the Yankton iron works; born in England, and in 1869 he came to America, and located in Sioux City in 1872; he removed to Yankton in 1864; he married Ann Hunn; they have five children, Susan, Joseph, John, Martha and Robert.
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Joseph Campbell—foundry and machinist; born in England; he came to America in company with his brothers; in 1866 he married Helen Easton; they have five children, Joseph H., Chas A., Charlotte A., John and Constance E.
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Felix Cariveau—born in Canada in 1837; came to the United States in 1853; settled in St. Paul, Minnesota; came to Dakota in 1876; served in the army four years under Gen. Thomas; married Elizabeth Conley, a native of Delaware; have four children, Blanche A., Mary, Lillian and Robert.
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Walter H. Carr—born in England in 1848; came to America in 1851; settled in Utica, New York; came west in the spring of 1867, and settled in Yankton, Dakota Territory; established business in Yankton in 1876; served in the army eighteen months in Hancock's 2d corps; married Lizzie Allen, a native of England; have two boys, Allen C. and Lewis E.
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Hon. L. Congleton—probate judge; was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1818; until 1S55 he was employed by the Pennsylvania Canal Company; he then removed to Central Iowa; he soon after removed to Spirit Lake, Iowa, and was elected judge of probate, which position he held until 1864, when he removed to Yankton; in 1866, was appointed court commissioner; he held the office until October 1, 1881; in 1876 he was elected probate judge of Yankton county, which position he still holds; in 1839 he married Rose Stewart; they have two daughters.
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D. B. Cooley—was born in New York, Otsego county, in 1841; came west in 1858 and settled in Illinois; came to Dakota in 1867. He made the first set of harness ever made in Dakota Territory; he made the first, and only, horse collar ever made in the Territory, and also built the first brick house in the Territory. He married Minnie Chamberlain, of New York; they have two children, Mattie T. and George H. Mr. Cooley was the youngest Justice of the Peace ever elected in New York, which office he held three years.
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W. H. Curtis—born in New York in 1849; came to Yankton in 1868, and was engaged in various pursuits until 1881, when he became proprietor or the Bradley House. Married in 1866 to Miss C. M. Tarbox, a native ot New York; have four children, Hattie B-, Charles F., Dora A. and Cora F.
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W. B. Dean—freight and ticket agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad; was born in Illinois; in 1881, he married Minnie Morrill.
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F. K. DeLong—was born in Ohio November 17th. 1854; came to Illinois at the age of two years, where he received his schooling; from Illinois he went to Minnesota, and in 1881 came to Dakota Territory, where he settled permanently; married Jennie Mackenzie, a native of Canada.
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T. S. . Dickson-county superintendent; born in Glengary county, Canada, in 1848; he practiced law in Chicago seven years; in 1876 he came to Yankton; taught school two years, and was subsequently elected county superintendent of Yankton county.
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R. A. Dickson—born in Glengary county, Canada, in 1852; in 1876 he went to Black Hills; in 1879 he returned to Yankton, and is at present engaged in teaching.
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H. D. Dodge—dentist; born in New York in 1849; was brought up in the mercantile business until 1S68; studied medicine one and a half years in Syracuse, New York; then studied dentistry and located in Dubuque, where he practiced four years; and located in Yankton in 1875.
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James Donahue—born in Rochester, New York, in 1842; came west in 1869, and settled in Dakota; married Mary A. Walsh, of Wisconsin; have two children, Tommy, aged eleven, and Nellie, aged six.
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E. C. Dudley—3alesman for Richey; born in Illinois in 1845; came to Yankton in 1869; following year he engaged in hardware business, and continued until 1878; he married Miss Ruch; they have four children, Edna, Mabel, Honora and Julia.
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Hon. Newton Edmunds—born in Niagara county, New York, May 31, 1819; moved to Washtenaw county, Michigan, in 1832; came to Yankton, Dakota, in 1861, as chief clerk in the Surveyor General's office; was appointed Governor of Dakota in August, 1863, which position he held until September, 1866, when he engaged extensively in farming and sheep raising; engaged in the banking business in Yankton in 1873, which business is still continued, the firm being Edmunds & Wynn, Leighton Wynn, of Pennsylvania, being the junior member thereof; married in 1848 to Margaret E. Heartt, of Michigan, and has three sons and one daughter; in 1876 he was a member of the Government Commission which made the successful treaty with the Sioux Indians, the result of which was the opening of the Black Hills to white immigration; at the time of his occupancy of the chief executive's office the governor of Dakota was ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and consequently in that capacity Gov. Edmunds had charge of all the Indians in the Territory. In this position in 1865, he made peace with all the Sioux, and also between the latter and other Indians; the first general peace made after the Minnesota massacre of 1862 Probably no other man in the country has had greater experience in Indian negotiations than Gov. Edmunds and certainly no other person has managed so many such negotiations with so great success. The Governor has also held numerous minor positions of public trust.
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Miss B. Eickhoff—dress maker; born in Illinois in 1858; in 1872 went to Nebraska; in 1879 came to Yankton.
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Chas Eiseman—dealer in dry goods and clothing; born in Baden, Germany, in 1835; came to America in 1850; in 1868 he came to Yankton, and engaged in dry goods trade in company with his brother; he married in 1866 to Miss Lehman.
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L. H. Eliot—born in New York State in 1826; came west in 1858; first settled in Indiana; in 1864 he moved to Yankton, Dakota Territory; he was three months in the Quarter Master's department in Chattanooga as a civilian; has been deputy sheriff two terms; married Mary Tredway, of the state of New York.
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Ephriam M. Epstein—M. D.; born near Russia; was educated in Europe and America; he graduated at Andover (Mass.) Theological Seminary, and the college of physicians and surgeons, of the state of New York; came to Dakota Territory in 1881; prior to this he lived in Ohio twelve years; married Helene Greyer, of Hanover; have two children, Frieda and Julia; served in the Austrian navy in the year 1866, in the campaign against Italy; was received there on his American diploma (a very unusual thing); he is a thorough American, but still has a bond of sympathy for his mother country, Russia.
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D. Frank Etter—M. D.; born in Pennsylvania in 1835; began the practice of medicine in 1836; in 1855 he came to Illinois, and in 1873, to Yankton; is U. S. examining physician.
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J. W. Evans—was born in Ohio, Wayne county, January 17, 1832; came west in 1850, and settled in Indiana; was one of the earliest settlers that came to Dakota; he came from St. Paul with Dakota Land Company, of which he was a member; this was the pioneer party; in 1857 he went to Minnesota; the same year he moved to Dakota; served in the provost service; his wife died February 19, 1857; her maiden name was Maria McMullen; have one child named Irene E.
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Hon. Andrew J. Faulk—born November 26,1814, at Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania; moved with his parents to Kittanning, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania; came to Dakota in October, 1861, and became trader at the Yankton Indian agency, which post he afterwards sold to C. and D. Hedges, of Sioux City, Iowa; returning to Kittanning. Pennsylvania, he embarked in the oil business in Oil City from the summer of 1864, to 1866: was superintendent of the Latonia Coal Company, of New York, (which company he helped to organize) and also helped organize the Paxton Oil Company, of West Pithole, Pennsylvania; during his operations in the oil regions he assisted in sinking some eighteen different oil wells, meeting with but indifferent financial success, however; was appointed governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for Dakota, August 4. 1866, and continued in this at that time arduous position until May, 1869; was editor of the Armstrong (Pa) Democrat from 1837 to 1843, and has filled various public positions in that state; was mayor of Yankton from the spring of 1871 to the spring of 1872, and officiated at the public reception of Senator Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, upon the latter's visit to Yankton, during his occupancy of the mayoralty; has been clerk of the United States District Court for the Second Judicial District for the past eight years, and is United States commissioner; is a great grandson of Gen. Daniel Broadhead, of Pennsylvania, of Revolutionary fame; married November 26, 1835, to Charlotte McMath, of Pennsylvania, and has one son and five daughters, among the members of his family being Hon. W. A. Burleigh, his son-in-law; was for about eight years president of the Dakota Bar Association; took a large delegation of Brules, Yanktons, Yanktonnais and Santees to Washington in 1867, and has had great experience in Indian affairs.
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Phil. K. Faulk—born in Pennsylvania in 1840; enlisted in 1£61 in the 11th Pennsylvania infantry; was discharged three months later; he then re-enlisted and served until Jan. 3, 1863; he re-enlisted again in 54th Pennsylvania state militia; commissioned 2d lieutenant of company C; mustered out in August, 1863; and re-enlisted in the 11th, February 29, 1864; on the 6th day of May, at the battle of the Wilderness, he lost his right arm; in1865 he came to Yankton, and was employed in surveyor general's office as messenger; he remained there until 1871, reading law during the time under Gen. Tripp; admitted to the bar in 1869; married in 1879, to Rachael A. Poulton, of Baltimore, Md.
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R. H. Fellows—born in Troy, New York, in 1849; came west in 1867; settled in Dakota in 1878.
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John M. Fogarty—was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1845; came to Yankton in 1871; served in the army three years, in the 5th Maryland regiment; married Martha W. Ridell, of Pa.; has been a member of the city council.
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J. L. Foskett—was born in New York in 1844; came west in 1866, and settled in Iowa; in 1372 be came to Dakota Territory; was postmaster about ten years, and has served as president of the council of the city of Yankton; married Lovina Nestle, of New York; have five children, Lewis, Willie, John, Minnie and Charley.
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R. J. Gamble—born in Genesee county, N. Y.; moved with his brother, in 1862, from New York to Wisconsin; remained there until 1875, when he removed again to Yankton, and engaged in law with his brother, under the firm name of Gamble Bros.; he has held office of district attorney.
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J. R. Gamble—born in Genesee county, N. Y.; located in Yankton, 1873; was district attorney from January 1,1875, to January 1, 1876, and was acting U. S. attorney after the death of Col. Pond until his successor was elected; member of Territorial Legislature in 1870 and.1880; elected to Territorial Council in 1881; has been a member of the Territorial republican committee for several years; married in 1875 to Miss Fannie Davis; they have two children.
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John E. Gillespie—was born in New Orleans, April 1, 1844; was raised in St. Louis, and spent seventeen years in Texas; came to Dakota in 1879; married Leila Cartwright, of Tennessee; they have five children, M. Olivia, Emma J., L. Ella, William and Lula; Mr. G. was in the United States service in Texas as a ranger.
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Wilson S. Goodwin—was born in Newport, Mich., in 1843; came to Wisconsin in 1854; from Wisconsin he went to Minnesota, where he lived ten years; he then moved to Dakota; served in the army three years, under Col. Cobb, of the 5th Wisconsin; he went through the regular gradations from private to captain.
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Fred Hammond—manager of the Singer Sewing Machine Company for Yankton; born in England; came to America in 1870; located in Yankton in 1879.
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Hon. Geo. H. Hand—born at Akron, Summit county, O., Aug. 9, 1837; moved to Portage, Wis., in 1850. where he read law with his father, Alvah Hand Esq.; was admitted to the practice of the profession in the spring of 1859; from Portage he went to St. Joseph, Mo., where he practiced his profession for a short time, moving thence to McGregor, Iowa, where he remained in the practice about two and a half years; he afterwards enlisted at Chicago as a private in the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, and served about one year; came to Yankton in Nov., 1865. and in March, 1866, was appointed U. S. Attorney for Dakota, which position he held until May, 1869, until which latter year he was engaged in a law partnership with the Hon. S. L. Spink, lately deceased; in 1869 he formed a law partnership with Hon. G. C. Moody, which continued until the spring of 1872, when Mr. Hand was appointed Register of the newly established U. S. Land Office for the Yankton district; this position he occupied until Nov. 1, 1874, when he was transferred to the Secretaryship of the Territory, which office he has ever since held, and in which capacity he has been frequently called upon to be Acting Governor of Dakota; has held in addition a number of minor offices.
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C, J. B. Harris—law and real estate; born Feb. 2,1844, at Danville, Vt.; moved to Marshalltown, Iowa, in March, 1870, and came to Yankton, July 7, of the same year; was superintendent of schools for two years in Vermont, and assistant clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1863; served in the 6th Vermont regiment from Dec. 30, 1861, throughout the entire war; has been U. S. Commissioner at Yankton; is at present a member of the Board of Aldermen, and has held other minor official positions; was appointed by the Legislative Assembly Commissioner to revise the laws of Dakota in 1873; married in 1881 to Mary Noonan, of Yankton county.
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Nils O. Hove—born in Norway in 1835; came to America in 1870, and settled in Dakota Territory; married Mina Stavlo in 1862; have six children, John, Ida, Leina, Mary, William and Fena.
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Geo. E. Hawley—born in Wisconsin in 1850; came to Yankton in 1872; in 1874 he engaged in the hardware business; in 1876 he married Mrs. D. K. Dudley.
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R. T. Hoyt— born in New York City in 1833; came west in 1839 with his parents, and settled in Indiana; in 1860 he came to Yankton; from there he went to Sioux City, where he remained until 1865; then again to Yankton, and was in charge of the business house of L. D. Palmer; has been in various businesses until 1876, when he engaged in his present business; married Mary E. Gurney, of Watertown, Wis.; they have five children, M. T., Annie E., R. T., Mary T. and E. C.
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H. F. Jencks—was born in New York in 1828; he came to Missouri Valley Junction in 1873, and engaged in hotel business; two years later his hotel was destroyed by fire, and he went to Sioux City, where he kept the Depot Hotel; in 1877 he came here, and has since been proprietor of Jencks Hotel.
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Carl Jensen—of the firm of Jensen & Olson, liquor dealers; was born in Norway in 1846; he came to America in 1871, and settled in Yankton; he was engaged in various pursuits until 1876, when he engaged in his present business.
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E. J. Jenkinson—was born in Wisconsin, January 23, 1863; went to Minnesota in 1865; came to Dakota Territory in 1873, and settled in Yankton permanently.
History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, 1881
L. M. Kee—born in West Virginia in 1836; brought up in the mercantile trade; in 1854 he came to Quincy, Ill.; he removed to Iowa in 1861, and in 1872 to Yankton.
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W. F. Lauman—was born in Pennsylvania, on the 6th of November, 1853; came west in 1872; settled in Yankton in 1873; traveled some before he came here; married Lora A. Ardery on the 30th of June, 1880; have one child, named Silene A.
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Fred. Lerch—was born in Germany in 1838; in 1865 he came to America, and settled in Philadelphia; from there to Milwaukee; thence to Chicago, and in 1873 he came to Yankton; he was married in 1871, and has four children; Katie, Louisa, Amelia and Fred.
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D. M. Lowell—born in Michigan in 1843; practiced law in Romeo, Mich., fourteen years.
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Capt. W. S. Lyons—born in Ohio in 1842; educated at Oberlin college; employed on the lakes for twenty-two years; for eleven years as master of different brigs; married in 1871 to Miss C. A. Barrager, of Canada; they located in Yankton in 1875, and engaged in the millinery business.
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John Martin—horn in Scotland in 1841; he came to America in 1850, and settled in Wisconsin; was married in 1865 to Mary L. Jenkins; they have two children.
History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, 1881
Jacob Max—born in Russia; came to America in 1873, at the head of a colony of one hundred and eight Russian families; forty families settled in Nebraska; the balance in Dakota Territory; he settled in Yankton in 1873, and engaged in present business; married in 1854 to Barbara Schweyer; they have seven children; Martin, John, Emanuel, Emil, Pauline, Amelia and William.
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W. J. Maxwell—born in Wisconsin in 1857; then went to Illinois some years after; thence to Dakota Territory, where he arrived in July, 1866; established business in 1881.
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D. McDevitt—born in Ireland, in March, 1844; came to America in April, 1866; settled in Yankton, D. T., in 1869.
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P. W. Moldenheauel—was born in Germany in 1854; came to America in 1873, and located in Yankton, and engaged in the stock business; is at present engaged in the manufacture of tow, the only manufacture of the kind in Dakota.
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E. S. Mosher—born in Saratoga county. N. Y., the 3d of June, 1815; from New York he came to Winnebago county, Wis., where he lived for twenty years; in July, 1861, he moved to Dakota; was postmaster at Utica P. 0., for seven years; he married Christina Hicks (she died Jan.. 1877); he has five children; Simeon, Emeline, Mary, Nettie and J. Eliza.
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J. C. Mormann—was born in Germany in 1847; came to America in 1873, and settled in Nebraska; in 1874 he moved to Yankton, D. T.; he married Annie Haberraan; they have one child named Clara.
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W. H. Munroe—born in Bristol, R. I., came west in 1876, settled in Yankton, D. T.; served in the army fourteen months under Foster; married Augusta N. Brooks, of Vermont; have one son, Frank, age twenty-one; Mr. Munroe was a commissioned officer five months.
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S. J. Morrow—was born in Ohio, May 3, 1843; came west to Madison, Wis., in 1854; served in the army four years and three months, in the 7th Wisconsin Regiment of Volunteers, under Gen. Callis; Mr. Morrow has exposed himself to great personal dangers and endured all kinds of hardships in order to obtain views of Gen. Custer's memorable battle field, and the spot where he fell. Has views of scenes on Gen. Crooks battle fields; Indian views taken during the Sitting Bull campaign; also views of the ice gorge on the Missouri in the spring of 1881, which views can be had by addressing him at Yankton, Dakota territory. He married Isadore Ketchum, of Portage City, Wisconsin; have three children—Nellie, Percy and Earl.
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Frederick Neubauer—was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1840; settled in D. T. the 6th of September, 1874; married Eustina Byerly; have six children—Carrie, Fred, Ferdinand, Amelia, Willie, Richard.
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P. J. Nyberg—Yankton, D. T.; born in Sweden in 1857; came to America in 1872 and settled in Dakota; married Seina Mathia in 1875; have two children—Mamie and Ernest F.
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C. J. Reitzell—was born in Pennsylvania in 1837; came with his parents to Freeport, Illinois; came to Dakota in 1879; married Bell Scott, of Erie, Pennsylvania; have two boys, Walter S. and Charles F.
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Jacob Richenberger—was born in Germany in 1831; came to America in 1881; served in the military in 1872; married Mary Haeeder; have three children—one girl and two boys.
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John A. Richards—miller—born in Wales in 1842; came to America in 1864 and located in Ohio; he came to Dakota in 1869; married in 1863 to Jane Griffith: have one son—Edward.
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Wm. Roantree—miller—was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1844; came to America with parents in infancy, and settled in New York; in 1869 he went to Broadhead, Wis.; thence to Turner county, D. T.; married in 1868 to Alice Addington; have one child.
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Peter Royem—Register of deeds and county clerk; born in Norway in 1853; came to America in 1870, and settled in Sioux Falls, where he remained two years, and removed to Yankton; he has been county surveyor two years, and in the fall of 1880 he was elected to his present position; he married Mary Anderson, a native of Minnesota; have one daughter.
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John Satori—born in Germany in 1816; came to America in 1866, and settled in Philadelphia; came to Yankton in 1871; married Caroline Wayne; have three children.
History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, 1881
H. A. Schoreggee—was born in Germany in 1826; came to America in 1850, and settled in New Orleans; came to Dakota ill 1869, and established business and has continued ever since; served in the army in the old country, and served as a militiaman in this country; married Barbara Heinrich; have seven children— Edward, Louisa, Louis, Theodore, Emma, John and Julius.
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John Schnell—was born in Germany the 11th of August, 1845; came to America in 1865, and settled in Schuylkill county, Pa.; came to Dakota in 1872; married Kate Kappler, of Schuylkill, Co., Pa.; have two children, Claude and Eugene J.
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Robert Schneider—was born in Germany in 1844; came to America in January, 1866; settled in Boston, Mass.; was in New York seven or eight years, and in Nebraska two years; came to Dakota in May, J 881; he was foreman in a cigar factory in Joliet; married Amelia Melzer, of Germany; have three children—Lillie, Richard and Flora.
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A. H. Schroder—born in Grant county, Wis., in 1855; he came to Yankton in 1876; two years later he engaged in the hardware business.
History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, 1881
Geo. R. Scougal, banker—was born in Rothsay, Scotland, Nov11th, 1852; came to America in 1878, and located in Lanesboro, Minn., where he remained until December, 1880, when removed to Yankton, and engaged in the banking business in company with Mr. McKinney; do a banking business in Sioux Falls, Yankton and Dell Rapids; he married Frances W. Taylor; they have three daughters.
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B. M. Semple—was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1836; came to America in 1853, and settled in Peoria, Illinois; came to Dakota in the spring of 1870.
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E. G. Smith—district attorney, 2d judicial district; born in Ohio in 1851; educated at State university and Lennox college; admitted to the bar in 1874 in Iowa; came to Yankton in 1875; Mr. S. is present reporter of the supreme court.
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H. V. Smith—was born in New York in the town of German, Shenango county, in 1854; came west with U. S. troops and was stationed at Randall and at Cantonement on the Yellowstone; married Miss Sarah Gillman, of Wisconsin, in the winter of 1875; they have one girl, named Maud M.
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Hon. S. L. Spink—This distinguished citizen of Dakota, who died September 22, 1881, at his residence in Yankton, aged about 51 years, had resided in Yankton since June. 1865, corning thither from Paris, Illinois, where he published the Paris Beacon, a republican paper, during the war, and was a member of the Illinois Legislature during 1864; was appointed Secretary of Dakota in 1865; was elected delegate to Congress from Dakota on the republican ticket in 1868, and resigned the secretaryship in March, 1869; was again a candidate for delegate in 1870, Dr. Burleigh and Hon. M. K. Armstrong long being his opponents, and was defeated, Armstrong holding the office after a contest. In 1872 he joined the liberal movement, and subsequently identified himself with the democracy, whose nominee for Congress he was in 1876. He continued in the practice of his profession at Yankton to the time of his death; his practice was extensive and lucrative, and he was possessed of unblemished character and commanding ability.
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Peter Steffen—born in Germany in 1841; came to America in 1866; settled in D. T. in 1872; in 1877 went to the Black Hills; has been dealing in stock for several years; had his barn burned with 17 horses on October 29th, 1878.
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William Stier—was born in Germany in 1831; came to Dakota in 1863 and settled near Elk Point; came to Yankton in the fall of 1864; served in the army two years and a half in the engineer corps; enlisted in St. Louis; has been street commissioner one year in Yankton; married Madeline Urich. a native of France; have five children—William P., Louisa K., Victor C, Alice and an infant.
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S. J. Thomas—machinist; born in New York in 1850; he came to Minnesota in 1862; in 1869 he removed to Yankton; he has been twice married; he has one child, W. J.
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William Ward—born in England in 1854; came to America in 1863; came to Dakota in March, 1878, and settled in Yankton permanently.
History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, 1881
C. Wedell—was born in Krimp, Russia, in 1854; came to America in 1874 and settled in Dakota; married Susie Halsworth; have three children, Mollie, Susie, Katie.
History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, 1881
H. W. White—was born in the State of New York in 1820; then went to Ohio, where he resided 35 years; from there he removed to Illinois; thence to D. T. He married Rose Ann; have three children, Frances, Hiram W. and Blanche; Mr. W. has been a member of the city council for seven years and school director most all his life.
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E. T. White—was born in Woodstock, Vermont, in 1847 when he was 22 years old he was admitted to the bar; in 1870 he came west and settled in Yankton and engaged in the practice of law. In 1874 he married Mary Bagley, of Bethel, Vermont. Mr. White was clerk of the house of representatives one session; is at present clerk of the city of Yankton.
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Thomas J. Williams—born in New York in 1848; came west in 1868; has traveled all through the west; served ten months in the army under Capt. Hawley; married Elizabeth Inerney; was a non-commissioned officer in the army.
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John Wilson—Norwegian descent; was born in King county, Illinois, in 1840. Came west to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1867; came to Yankton, D. T, in 1877; married Jennie Iverson.
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C. N. Wright—engineer in Excelsior company flouring mills; born in Ohio in 1843; came west in 1867 and settled in Iowa. In 1875 he engaged in his present occupation. Married in 1876 to Miss N. C. Bancroft; have one child, Frank.
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Frank D. Wyman—born in Essex county, New York, July 14th, 1841. Came to Wisconsin in 1846 and settled in Walworth county. Came to Dakota in November, 1871, and settled permanently. Served in the army tour years in the 8th Wisconsin veteran volunteers and was honorably discharged. Married Mattie Robertson, of Perry county, Alabama; have three children—Mattie M., Alfred L., Lute A.
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A. Zemlicka—born in Bohemia in 1846; he came to America in 1862 and located in Milwaukee; in 1864 he removed to Boscobel, Wisconsin; in 1869 he came to Yankton and engaged in merchandising; married in 1872 to Josephine Beiba; they have four children—Sylvia, Vesta, Frank, Josephine.
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J. E. Ziebach—manager P. O. bookstore; born at Sergeant's Bluffs in 1858; moved to Sioux City; from there with his parents he went to Yankton.
History of Southeastern Dakota, Its Settlement and Growth, 1881
F. M. Ziebach—foreman Press and Dakotaian; born in 1830 in Union county, Pa. Published the Lewisburg (Pa.) Argus. Moved to Sergeant Bluffs, Iowa, in 1857, where he established the Western Independent. Moved to Sioux City, Iowa, in the spring of 1858, and started the Sioux City Register. Came to Yankton in 1861 and established the Dakotaian. Went to Dubuque, Iowa, in 1863, and purchased an interest in the Daily Herald of that place. Returned to Sioux City in 1866, and in the fall of that year was appointed register of the land office at Sioux City. Was for two terms mayor of Sioux City, in 1868-9 and 1869-70. Returned to Yankton in 1870, where he has ever since been engaged in the newspaper business. Was for three terms mayor of Yankton, from 1876 to 1879, and was a member of the Territorial legislature during the session of 1877. Has held the well known position of "Squatter Governor" of Dakota ever since the organization of the Territory. Was a member of Yankton's first Board of Education, and has held other minor offices. Married to Elizabeth Fisher, of Danville, Pa., and has four sons and two daughters.
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F. H. Ziebach—clerk in American Express office; born in Sioux City in 1861; in '62 he removed to Yankton with his parents; he is a second son of F. M. Ziebach.
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