History of Dakota Territory, volume V, Part 90

Author: Kingsbury, George Washington, 1837-; Smith, George Martin, 1847-1920
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1262

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Frank L. Smith remained with his parents until he was twenty years of age and in 1886 went to the Black Hills and mined in the vicinity of Keystone and Hill City for abont five years. At the end of that time he secured a position on the Elkhorn Valley Railroad and for five or six years was employed by that corporation, working between Fremont and Hastings. Upon returning to Dakota he.engaged in the grain business at Armour and pur- chased an elevator in that town. He has since engaged in the buying of grain and in the sale of agricultural implements and both lines of his business have proved profitable. He is a man of business acumen, energy and progressive ideas which insure the continued growth of his trade.

Mr. Smith was married October 4. 1900, on a farm eight miles south of Avon, to Miss Amanda Minow, a native of Ackley, Iowa. Her father, William Minow, removed with his family to Bon Homme county in 1879 or 1880 and is now one of its well-to-do farmers. His wife, who was in her maidenhood Miss Dora Meyers, passed away on the home farm July 3, 1910. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Dorothy, born June 30. 1902; and Franklin, born August 14, 1909.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Presbyterian church and he is also affiliated with the Masonie order, belonging to the blue lodge at Armour. He has attained the thirty-seeond

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degree in the Scottish Rite, belonging to the consistory at Yankton. His political adherence is given to the republican party. He was eighteen years old when he accompanied his par- ents to this state in 1884 and remembers vividly the terrible blizzard of January 12, 1888. He spent the night with an old schoolmate, Johnnie McConnell, and did not realize that one of the worst storms in the history of South Dakota was raging. His younger brothers and sisters were compelled to spend the night at the schoolhouse.

ALAN BOGUE, JR.

Alan Bogue, Jr., member of the well known law firm of Bogue & Bogue, has for the past twenty years been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Centerville. His birth occurred in Columbia county, Wisconsin, on the 15th of November, 1867, his parents heing Alan and Ellen (Stevenson) Bogue. The father, who is now enjoying honorable retire- ment. was identified with general agricultural pursuits throughout his active business career.

Alan Bogue, Jr., acquired his early education in the district schools and subsequently attended the high school at Poynette, Wisconsin, for one year, after which he entered the Poynette Presbyterian Academy. Following his graduation from that institution he took up the study of law in the University of Wisconsin at Madison, winning the degree of LL. B. in 1894. In December of that year he located for practice at Centerville, South Dakota, where he has remained continuously to the present time, having built up an exten- sive and enviable clientage. He is a fourth owner in the telephone plant and also has farm lands in this state.

On the 7th of June, 1898, Mr. Bogue was united in marriage to Miss Jane Allison Dunlop, a danghter of William Dunlop. of Poynette, Wisconsin. To them have heen born two chil- dren, Everett A. and Beatrice. Mr. Bogue gives his political allegiance to the republican party and was appointed a member of the state investigating committee by Governor Byrne. He is widely recognized as a public-spirited and loyal citizen who does everything in his power to further the general welfare and advance the interests of his community. His religious faith is indicated in his affiliation with the Presbyterian church, in which he serves as an elder. He is popular in both professional and social circles of his community and enjoys a well merited reputation as an able and learned member of the har.

HENRY ERNEST BINGER, M. D.

Dr. Henry Ernest Binger is a practicing physician and surgeon of Clark and a repre- - sentative of one of the pioneer families of this section of the state. His birth occurred in Tulare, South Dakota, December 11, 1885, his parents being Charles H. and Hattie (Bell) Binger. The father is a native of Germany and the mother of Wisconsin. In 1881 Charles H. Binger arrived in South Dakota, where he homesteaded a half mile from Tulare. He was married in this state and was one of the first to locate in that section in which he took up his abode, settling there before a railroad was built. He has lived to see a wonderful transformation in the district and in the work of general improvement and advancement has borne his share. Both he and his wife are still living.

Henry E. Binger supplemented a public-school course by study in Redfield College and later he entered the University of Minnesota, where he pursued a medical course and was graduated with the class of 1910. He spent a year thereafter in St. Luke's Hospital at St. Paul as interne, gaining that broad and valuable experience which comes only in hospital practice. He afterward spent three months in St. Peter's Hospital for the Insane and on the expiration of that period arrived in Clark, where he opened an office and entered upon the independent practice of his profession. Here he has been very successful and is today regarded as one of the promising young physicians of the state. He served as health officer in 1911 and is now filling the position of county physician. He studies closely those

ALAN BOGUE, JR.

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questions which throw light upon the causes and treatment of disease and is keenly inter- ested in everything that brings to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life.

On the 28th of November, 1911, Dr. Binger was united in marriage to Miss Vida Eliz- abeth De Bar, a daughter of James De Bar. They hold membership in the Methodist church and Dr. Binger gives his political allegiance to the republican party. Fraternally he is con- nected with the Masons and in his life exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft. IIe is also connected with Phi Beta Pi, a college fraternity. Along strictly professional lines his connection is with the Watertown Distriet Medical Society and the South Dakota State Medical Society and in their meetings he learns much that is of value to him in his practice through the discussion of important problems engaging the attention of the medical profession.

ROBERT FREDERICK RIEMER.

Robert Frederick Riemer has been engaged in the independent practice of law in Sioux Falls since 1907 and throughout the intervening eight years has enjoyed growing suceess. He was horn on a farm in Shawano county, Wisconsin, and is a son of Frederick William and Augusta (Pocket) Riemer, natives of Germany. The father was a soldier in the German army and saw service in the Danish and Austrian wars.

In the acquirement of an education Robert F. Riemer attended the graded and high schools of his native eounty and also pursued a course of study in a commercial school at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He subsequently spent a year as a school teacher and afterward took up the study of law, being graduated from the law department of the University of Wiscon- sin at Madison in 1904. In May, 1905, he removed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and for about two years remained in the office of Joseph Kirby, an attorney. In 1907 he opened an office of his own and has since remained in active practice. In the eight years which have since elapsed he has done good work, earefully preparing and presenting his cases, his logical deduetions indieating his thorough understanding of the points in controversy, while his correct application of principle or precedent shows his comprehensive knowledge of the law.

On the 7th of June, 1904, at Belvidere, Illinois, Mr. Riemer was joined in wedlock to Miss Magdalena Mary Diebold, a daughter of John and Adelaide Diebold. They have one daughter, Hildegarde Frances Mary Riemer. In politics Mr. Riemer is a republican and in religious faith a Lutheran. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is also a popular member of the Germania Verein.

ROBERT L. FLICKINGER.

Robert L. Flickinger, a successful lawyer of Gettysburg. Potter county, who is now serving as states attorney, was born in Faulk county on the 10th of June, 1887, a son of Lewis D. and Mahala MI. ( Peterson) Flickinger. The father was born near Port Byron, Illinois, in 1857, and devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. He removed from Illinois to Iowa and thence to South Dakota in 1882. The mother was born near Keosauqua, Iowa, in 1862, and came to this state in 1881. They were married in Spink county, where Mr. Flick- inger owned land, and he subsequently purchased a tract adjoining his farm, which, however, was situated just across the line, in Brown county. He continued to reside upon his place in Spink county until 1905 and published a weekly paper at Mellette for a number of years in addition to operating his farms. For some time he also engaged in buying and selling stoek in Gettysburg and at one time he was in the automobile business in North Dakota. He is now living in northeastern Montana, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising on a claim. He gives his politieal allegianee to the democratic party and served as justice of the peace in Spink county and also held a number of other local offiees.

Robert L. Flickinger attended school in Mellette, where he completed the high school course, and later entered the law college of the State University of South Dakota at Ver- million, from which he was graduated in 1908. When twenty-one years of age he began Vol. V-33

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the practice of his profession at Clark, South Dakota, and remained there for a year in the office of C. G. Sherwood. He then located in Gettysburg, where he has since remained and where he has gained a high standing professionally. He engages in the general practice of law, and his ability and the care with which he prepares his cases has enabled him to win a large percentage of favorable verdicts. He owns stock in the Potter County Telephone Company, of which he is the secretary.

Mr. Flickinger was married on the 30th of June, 1912, to Miss Grace Lisby, a native of Indiana. Her father, Wallace Lisby, is a contractor and carpenter and since about 1895 has resided in Clark, South Dakota. In her maidenhood her mother was Miss Margaret Pike, a native of Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Flickinger have been born two children: Margaret May. born on the 23d of July, 1913; and Glenn Wallace, born October 2, 1914.

Mr. Flickinger is a republican and is at present serving as states attorney of Potter county, in which office he is proving very capable and aggressive. For three years, from the ist of May, 1911, to the 1st of May, 1914, he was city auditor of Gettysburg, and was secretary of the Chautauqua Association in 1915. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church and gives his support to those movements which seek the moral advancement of his com- munity. Fraternally he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge, of which he is noble grand; the Modern Brotherhood of America; and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the board of managers of the local organization of the last named order and has served as its representative at the state camp. He has won a high place in the estimation of his fellow citizens and has gained many warm personal friends since removing to Gettyshurg.

HENRY PIGNEY.

Henry Pigney, who is successfully engaged in blacksmithing in Blunt, Hughes county, is a native of England, born in Westmoreland county, November 3, 1838. His parents, Nicholas and Jane (Kershew) Pigney, were also born in that county, where they passed their entire lives. The father was also a blacksmith by trade. Henry Pigney, who is the second in order of birth in a family of five children, attended school in England and remained under the parental roof until he was twenty-two years of age. In 1860 he emigrated to America, locating at Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he conducted a blacksmith shop for two years, after which he removed to Mendota, Illinois. He followed blacksmithing there for one year and then returned to Michigan, where he remained until 1867. In that year he took up his residence in Vienna township, Grundy county, Illinois, where he continued to reside for six years, after which he went to Morris and thence to Maple Park, Kane county, that state. where he remained for four years.

In 1884 Mr. Pigney became a resident of Blunt, South Dakota, and engaged in black- smithing there for some time, after which he returned to Maple Park, Illinois. He con- tinued to follow his trade there until the spring of 1912, when he again located in Blunt. He has since resided in that city and is successfully engaged in the blacksmithing and general repair business. He owns a large and fully equipped shop and has gained a large and lucrative patronage, as it is known that he does excellent work and is reasonable in his charges.

Mr. Pigney was married on the 4th of January, 1862, to Miss Lusina McConnell, who was born in Youngstown, Ohio, of the marriage of Louis and Anna (Goff) McConnell, both natives of the state of New York. Her father followed shoemaking in early life but later turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. For some time they resided in Michigan, whence they removed to Ohio, and later to Illinois and afterward to Iowa, where the father passed away. The mother returned to Illinois and her demise occurred there.

To Mr. and Mrs. Pigney have been born five children: William Henry, who is engaged in teaming in Blunt; Fred L., also a resident of Blunt, who is engaged in draying and gives some attention to farming; Ella J., who died in Rockford, Illinois, on Christmas Day of 1907; Minnie S., who died in 1897; and Frank, who is living in Blunt and in addition to farming assists his father.

Mr. Pigney is a republican and has served as justice of the peace in Blunt and also as

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a member of the town board and the school board. While living in Maple Park, Illinois, he held the office of justice of the peace and for one term was president of the town board, while for ten years he was a member of the school board. Fraternally he is well known, belonging to the Masonic blue lodge at Blunt; the Royal Arch chapter and the Knights Tem- plar commandery at Sycamore, Illinois; the Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Chi- cago; and the Ancient Order of United Workmen at Blunt, of which lodge he is a charter member. He has been successful in business and has at the same time gained the unqualified respect and esteem of all who have been associated with him.

JAMES C. ANDERSEN.

James C. Andersen owns and operates a farm of three hundred and twenty acres on sections 19 and 20, Red Rock township, Minnehaha county, and in the conduct of his agri- cultural interests has met with excellent success. His birth occurred in Denmark on the 13th of August, 1873, his parents being Christen and Karen Andersen. The father, a farmer by occupation, still survives.

James C. Andersen attended the common schools of his native land in the acquirement of an education and after putting aside his text-books assisted his father in the work of the home farm for three years. On the expiration of that period he emigrated to the United States and on the 7th of June, 1893, took up his abode in Sioux City, Iowa. At the end of ten years he purchased a quarter section of land in that state and there devoted his atten- tion to agricultural pursuits with good success until February, 1910, when he disposed of his property and came to South Dakota. He made his way to Minnehaha county and bought the farm of three hundred and twenty acres on which he now resides, purchasing a quarter of section 19 and a quarter of section 20, Red Rock township. The well tilled fields annually yield golden harvests in return for the care and labor which he bestows upon them and he also devotes considerable attention to live stock, feeding forty head of cattle and seventy-five head of hogs.

In 1908 Mr. Andersen was united in marriage to Miss Hilma Swenson, a daughter of Nels and Christina Swenson. They have two children, Clarence and Mervin. Mr. Andersen gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is a Lutheran in religious faith. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to establish his home in the new world, for through the wise utilization of the opportunities here afforded he has gained a gratifying measure of prosperity and at the same time has won and held the respect and esteem of his neighbors.

ENOCH LINDQUIST.

Enoch Lindquist, of the State Bank of Twin Brooks, was born in Grant county, South Dakota, on the Sth of February, 1888, a son of C. A. and Louise (Johnson) Lindquist. Both parents were born in Sweden, the father on the 1st of June, 1834, and the mother in 1844 They were married in their native land in 1866 and continued to reside there until 1880, when they emigrated to the new world, making their way to Kandiyohi county, Minnesota, where they remained for two years. At the end of that time they removed to Grant county, this state, and the father homesteaded a quarter section of land. upon which he resided for twenty-five years. He is now living retired and makes his home with a daughter. He is a republican and has held a number of minor offices, while his religious faith is that of the Swedish Lutheran church. His wife died in 1902.' Their children are as follows: Ida, the wife of C. W. Grandquist, a farmer of Grant county; Ed, who is a grain buyer in La Bolt, South Dakota; Albin, a farmer of Grant county: Albert, who is engaged in the wholesale produce and automobile business in Riverside, California; and Enoch.

The last named supplemented his public-school education hy attending the Mitchell Business College and the State University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. In 1908, when twenty years of age, he accepted a position as bookkeeper in the State Bank of Twin Brooks

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and in January, 1910, was made cashier of that institution, in which capacity he has since served. The bank is capitalized for five thousand dollars, has a surplus of two thousand dollars and its average deposits are seventy-five thousand dollars. Our subject and his brother, Albert, own a controlling interest in the institution, which pays good dividends. It has gained the confidence of the community, as great care is taken to safeguard the interests of the depositors. Our subject has proved a very capable financier and the success of the bank is largely due to his wise management of its affairs.

Mr. Lindquist was married in 1911 to Miss Mattie Bohn, a daughter of S. Bohn, who was one of the early settlers of Grant county and has successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits, gaining a considerable fortune. Mr. and Mrs. Lindquist have one daughter, Evelyn, who is three years of age.

Mr. Lindquist is a republican in politics but has had little time to devote to public affairs. His religious faith is that of the German Evangelical church. He has won a large measure of success and is highly esteemed for his ability and also for his integrity, which has never been questioned.

PERCY H. HELM.

Percy H. Helm, a prominent attorney of Custer, devoting his time entirely to his prac- tice, is well versed in various departments of the law and is now acting as counsel for a number of corporations. He was born at Prairie Farm, Barron county, Wisconsin, October 11, 1880, a son of John Quincy and Jennie (Schultz) Helm, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Wisconsin. Early in life the father entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church as a member of the Wisconsin conference, having become a resident of that state in early life. About 1883 he removed to Nebraska, settling near Lexington, and in that state continued the work of the ministry. He now resides at University Place, Lincoln, and has retired from active pastoral work, although his interest in the cause of the church will never waver nor abate.

Percy H. Helm is the second in a family of seven children. He accompanied the fam- ily on their various removals caused by the itinerant methods of the Methodist ministry and thus attended school in various places in Nebraska. At the age of fourteen he became a pupil in the Methodist Episcopal College at Orleans, Nebraska, where he remained for two years. When sixteen years of age he came to the Hills, going to Whitewood, where he worked for an uncle and attended school. On attaining his majority he took up the study of law at Sturgis in connection with H. P. Atwater and after thus reading for two years became a student in the Creighton law school. A year later he successfully passed the required examination and was admitted to the bar. There was mueh arduous lahor, however, before he entered upon his professional career. At fifteen years of age he was working on ranches in Nebraska and Kansas and also had charge of a mail route until he came to the Hills. After attending school at Whitewood, South Dakota, he worked on the Evening Independ- ent at Deadwood for about six months as city collector and afterward spent a fall term in teaching school, at which time he was but seventeen years of age. The following spring and summer he worked on the Independent and taught school the following winter. He after- ward worked on the range as a cowboy for three seasons and taught in the winter months. It was subsequent to this time that he entered the law office at Sturgis and after attending law school for a year be returned to the law office in Sturgis, in which he continued for eight months, taking his examination in the fall of 1906. The following spring he arrived in Custer, where he practiced for eighteen months. For about four or five months he was in partnership with Judge Polly of Deadwood and then went to Bison, Perkins county, where he followed his profession for four years. In the fall of 1912 he returned to Custer, where he has practiced continuously since. While he devotes his life to general practice, he is also attorney for the Custer County Bank, the Hill City State Bank, the Hermosa State Bank and the First National Bank of Custer. He likewise has other business interests as manager of the Custer Mutual Telephone Company and is interested in some mining companies.

On the 29th of September, 1909, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Helm and Miss

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Anna Wilson, who was born in New Jersey, a daughter of James P. Wilson, also a native of that state. The mother died during the infancy of Mrs. Helm and the father never came to the west. Mr. and Mrs. Helm have one child, Herbert James, born January 22, 1911.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Helm is an Eagle and a Knight of Pythias. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise and he is the present prosecuting attorney of Custer county, taking the office on the 1st of January, 1915.

J. A. SAUER.

J. A. Sauer has for the past three decades been engaged in business as a wholesale cigar manufacturer of Huron and in this connection has won a gratifying and well merited measure of prosperity. His birth occurred in Onalaska, Wisconsin, on the 31st of August, 1862, his parents being Charles A. and Anna Saner, who took up their abode in Huron, South Dakota, in April, 1880. Here the father successfully conducted a general store until within a few years of his demise, which occurred on the 4th of November, 1911.

J. A. Sauer attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education and when fifteen years of age began learning the trade of cigar making at La Crosse, Wisconsin, afterward working at that occupation in Minnesota. When a youth of about eighteen he removed with his parents to Huron, this state, and in 1883 he embarked in business as a wholesale cigar manufacturer, in which he has since remained, selling his goods through- out the states of Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. During the past twenty years he has manufactured the Commandery, a ten-cent cigar, and the Fair City and South Dakota Star, which sell for five cents. He now furnishes employment to twenty or more people and has had as many as forty-six in his factory. Mr. Sauer is also a stockholder in the James Valley Bank and has long been numbered among the repre- sentative and substantial business men of his city.

In 1887 Mr. Sauer was united in marriage to Miss Margaret E. Pierce, of Woonsocket, South Dakota, who is a native of Jowa. They have two children: Gretchen, who is a teacher of vocal music; and John P.

Mr. Sauer gives his political allegiance to the democracy and has served as a member of the city council for five years. He belongs to the United Commercial Travelers and is also identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His nature is social and his disposition cordial and, while he has at all times commanded the respect and admiration of his business associates, he has also enjoyed the warm friend- ship of those who have come within the closer circle of his acquaintance.

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History of Dakota Territory, volume V, Part 90

Author: Kingsbury, George Washington, 1837-; Smith, George Martin, 1847-1920 Publication date: 1915 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : S.J. Clarke Publishing Company Number of Pages: 1262

Author: Kingsbury, George Washington, 1837-; Smith, George Martin, 1847-1920
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : S.J. Clarke Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1262