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PETER NORBECK
CHARLES NICHOLSEN
NORBECK-NICHOLSEN Artesian Well Drillers REDFIELD, SOUTH DAKOTA
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changing atmospheric conditions, transforming a semi-arid region with its drought and hot winds, with failure 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 un- til 1890, when he came to South Dakota, locating at Faulk- ton, where he published the Faulk County Record for about three years in connection with M. P. Springer. In 1896, he moved back to Wisconsin, returing to Faulkton, 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 coun- ty, New York, and a great grandfather was a surgeon in the revolutionary army.
Socially Mr. Rice is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Politically he has always been identi- fied with the republican party and is at the present time chairman of the Faulk county republican central committee.
HENRY METZ was born in Germany, February 18, 1846 and came to the United States with his parents locat- ing in the state of Illinois.
He was but fifteen years of age at the time the Civil War commenced, yet he had an honorable war record. He
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was among the early settlers of Faulk county and took all interest in social and political affairs. In politics he was an earnest and devoted friend and an able and honest oppo- nent. 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 German fellow citizens. In his death the community in which he lived experienced a serious loss.
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 en- terprising 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 Hart- ford, Connecticut and came to Faulk county, South Dak- ota, in August, 1883, locating in what is now the town of Pioneer.
Mr. Clark married Miss Kate Avery in Cresco, Iowa, in June, 1880 and to them have been born five children. He now resides on his original homestead, which lie took in 1883. Like 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 build- ings and contentment, happiness and perfect satisfaction with his surroundings have followed.
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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. Louis, 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 re- sided 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 Cor- bett, 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 Lin- coln who is yet at home attending the Faulkton city schools.
In1 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
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are members of the Faulkton Free Methodist church and are considered among our most reliable christian people.
C. B. CHAMBERS, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1849. His father, Abraham Cham- bers, a native of the sante county and state, was born De- cember 12, 1819. He was an iron smelter by trade, follow -. ing 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 Cham- bersburg, Pennysylvania. 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 Robert. Atkinson .. He came to America when a boy, previous to the Revolu- tionary War.
The subject of this sketch was the second son in a. family of seven children, and was reared in Indianapolis, In- diana, 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 partner- ship with him, and engaged in farming in Green county, tin- til 1883, when he came to Dikota Territory and squatted
RESIDENCE OF C. B. CHAMBERS, FAULKTON
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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 inail route from Roanoke to Northville, in Spink county. In 1889 he permanently located on his homestead on sec- tion 7, township 120, range 66, and continued to do busi- ness until 1894, since which time he has engaged in farm- ing, has been a dealer in real estate, justice of the peace, and notary public.
When he located in Dakota in 1883, he had many ex- periences; among theni, 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, about five hundred acres of which were under plow; he had a complete set of farını buildings, and raised wheat, cattle and horses. He had thirty-four head of stock on his farin, 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 illustra- tion of which may be seen on Page 493 of this history. Mr.
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Chambers has a real estate office on eighth avenue and with his rented farms to look after, is doing an extensive real estate business.
THOMAS EUGENE BICKELL was born at Myrtle, Bon Homme county, South Dakota, December 28th, 1881, and resided with his parents on a farmi 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 ein- ployed as foreman until June, 1908, when he associated. himself with W. H. Rice in the publication of The Faulk- ton 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.
On September 15th, 1909, he was united in marriage. to Miss Rhea D. Griffee, of Faulkton ..
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. al- ways been identified with the republican party ..
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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, set- tling in Middlesex county, Massachusetts.
Mr. Morse was born in one of the old family faını 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 monu- ment 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 proni- nent men of that time.
He was married September 12, 1850, to Caroline Mer- rill, 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 steamer May- flower, crossing the state of Michigan by the Michigan Central, and thence by boat to Chicago, there being 110 railway into Chicago from the east at that time.
For three years the family lived at Peoria and Gales- burg, 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 city of 12,000 inhabitants. He
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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 legis- lature and reelected in 1878. On March 14, 1883, he came to Faulkton, South Dakota, when it contained only four buildings.
With his two sons, Albert and Charles, he took up gov- ernment 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 by a large nun- ber 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.
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INDEX
Introduction 7
Introductory 11
State History 16 1
Faulk County 23 1 1 1
County Organization 32
The First Settler 45
Buffalo in Faulk County 48
The Blizzard of January 12, 1888
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Faulkton 61
LaFoon 63
DeVoe 64
The Western Third of Faulk County
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The Pioneer Settler 72
The First Memorial Day 74
· New Social Relations
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The First Election 83
New Postoffices 92
The Donation of a Church Bell
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Veterans of the Civil War
Grand Army Post 97
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Educational 103
The Railroad 107
Faulk County in 1908 101
From County Commissioners' Record 115
Faulk County by D. S. Smith 138
Early History 144
Town Organization In Faulk County 146
Town Officers 151
The Coming of the Railroads 161
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The Town of Zell 172
Seneca 181
. Future Growth 183
Faulkton 185
Social Organization 194
Church Organization 215
The Woman Suffrage Question 227
The Faulk County Court House 256
Old Settlers' Annual Picnic 261
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Artz, Frank 413
Allen, Amon L. 459
Bottum, Hon, Joseph H. 281
Byrne, Hon. Frank M. 286
Bryden, David 337
Bixler, John A. 376
Berg, Herman
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Bell, William
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Boller, Andrew
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Batteen, Mrs. Louisa 463
Byrne, William 470
Bruggeman, Frank 480
Bickell, Thomas Eugene 496
Chambers, C. B 492
Clark, F. E. 490
Clifford, A. B. 483
Chapman, Henry- 472
Cole, Ephriham 455.
Clark, Hon. S. Wesley 462
Chapman, Sammuel E. 467
Chapman, Edward 362
Cochrane, Lizzie M. 343
Cornwell, I. Allen 304
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Dodds, William J. 357
Deady, Thomas 364
Dahl, H. M. 398
Dixon, John A. 410
Davis, Rev. John T. 466
Ericsen, Andrew T. 406
Ensch, Dr. Edward
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Ensch, Mrs. Catherine (Deisch) 407 1 1
Ellenbecker, John 408 1 1
Eaton, Arthur J.
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Ellis, Caleb Holt
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Edgerton, William M.
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1 Ellis, Arthur W. 485 J 1
Faulkner, William G. 317
Finley, John H. 1
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Findeis, Adam
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Freeland, Rev. J. K
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I Forrest, Charles P. 414
Ford, Elvin W.
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Ford, Edward 475
Finley, William E. 476
Griffee, Abraham D. 309
Garrick, Alexander
367
Golden, Emanuel
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Gooder, Albert
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1 L $ Grater, Joseph L 460 4 1 1 1 1 1
Gabler, Jacob
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Greener, Christian 491 1
Harrington, John 350
Hooper, Mrs. Emma A.
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Hagan, Nelson 412
Hatfield, F. E. 420
Hays, Joseph H. 425
Hays, Mrs. Lizzie (Fahs) 428
Hays, John W. 442
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Humphrey, Captain H. A. 451
Holgate, Rev. Ernest 461 Hall, Williamı R. 464
Hogeboom, Cornelius 470
Johnston, James W. 340
Jones, D. Roy 355
Jarvis, Matthew J. 421
Jarvis, Dr. Abbie A. 422
Jarvis, George J. 440
Jungworth, R. 479
Knapton, Robert 333
Kellett, William 411
Kern, Mrs. Bertha 477
Korupp, Henry 477
Kolegraff, Philip 480
Latham, Hon. D. H. 315
Lower, William H. 343
Loy, Samuel 368
Law, Allen 397
Luke, John F. 445
Lambert, Butler 453.
Loken, Ellef 469
Miller, Hon. Alexander 330
McDearmon, Merill S 359
Moulton, C. C. 389
McComb, Edwin 395
Mertens, Christopher 445
Mckay, William 467
McAllen, William H. 473
McGrath, John M. 478
Metz, Henry
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Morse, George A. 497
Niemeyer, Carl 355
Nevins, J. S. 395
Nestor, James T 396
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Nestor, Thomas 468
Norbeck & Nicholson Co. 486
O'Neil, Patrick H. 289
O'Neil, Mrs. Annie (Carline) 292
Person, Frederick D. 349
Pickler, Major John A. 267
Pickler, Alice M. A 276
Phelps, Arthur W. 360
Pangburn, Frank A 361
Purcell, Thomas 376
Pillsbury, Daniel W 405
Pagel, A. F. 474
Potter, Fred H. 490
Roseland, Elias 346
Roseland, Gabriel T. 346
Rush, Joel 353
Reinecke, Henry W 326
Rathbun, Dr. J. P. 368
Ramsdell, Francis M 370
Riley, George G. 397
Rudine, Alex C. 411
Reed, Henry F. 465
Robbins, Rev. Anson Hart 466
Rice, William H. 489
Smith, Darius S. 335
Sangster, Adam 344
Simmons, Rev. Thomas 297
Simmons, Mrs. Anna R. 298
Seaman, Fred Andrew 308
Sprague, Albert J 316
Shirk, John H. 823
Stone, Orlando L. 323
Stoddard, George H. 328
Strachan, A. M. 375
Swift, Otis A. 383
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Schmitt, Peter 419
Steele, Sheldon J. 456
Seckner, Ellsworth S 472 1
Strasburg, Carl 475 ! I
Schaefer, Henry 476 1 1
Sime, Andrew 483
Thorn, Stephen F. 358
Turner, James P 329
Thorn, William Springate 404
Thorn, Mrs. Louisa 409
Thompson, Alexander M 419
Vanmeerbeck, Oscar 364
Vinton, William B. 398
Voss, Amon C. 473
Wilkinson, Henry 356
Wight, L. T. 394
Whitney, Selwyn 399
Wallace, J. H. 399
Weideman, H. G. 474
Wood, Rev. A. A. 446
Young, Fremont 387
Young, Joseph M. 396
York, Charles E. 476
ILLUSTRATIONS
Along the Nixon River near Faulkton 39
Baker, Mack, Residence 189
Bottum, Hon. J. H. 283
Bottum, Mrs. Sylvia G. 283
Byrne, Hon. Frank M. 287
Chambers, C. B., Residence 493
Catholic Parsonage, Zell 129
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Congregational Church, Cresbard
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Congregational Church, Faulkton 220
Catholic Church, Faulkton 221
Dean, R. L. 391
Dunsmore, James M. . 499 i 1
Elevator at Cresbard 109
Forrest House, Orient 416
Forrest House Stable, Orient 417
Faulk County State Fair Ehibit, 1904 29
Ford, Elvin W., Residence, 139
Faulk County Court House 257
Faulk County Abstract Building 305
Faulkner, W. G. 320
Faulkner, Mrs. W. G. 321
Gooder, Albert, Residence 437
Hotel and Business Block in Cresbard
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Harrington, John, Residence 199
Hays, Joseplı H. 430
Hays, Mrs. J. H. 430
1 Hays Block, Faulkton 431
Indian Carnival 49
Jarvis, Mathew J. 423
Jarvis, Dr. Abbie A 423
Johnston, J. W., Residence 341
Kline, Mrs. Emma, Residence 179
Lehman, W. H., Residence 159 1
Lower, W. H., Residence 99
Latham, D. H. 312
Latham, Mrs. Nellie A. 313 1
Loy, Samuel, Residence 379
Miranda Band 79
Methodist Church, Cresbard 209
Methodist Church, Faulkton 221
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Miller, Alexander, Draft Horses 331
Moore, A. M., Residence 481
New Catholic Church, Zell 265
Norbeck & Nicholson 487
Old Catholic Church, Zell 264
O'Neil, P. H. 294
O'Neil, Mrs. Annie Carline 295
Old Sod Shanty in 1888, S. F. Thorn 69
Public School Building, Faulkton 231
Person, F. D., Residence 251
Pickler, Major J. A. 272
Pickler, Alice M. A. 273
Pickler, J. A., Residence 279
Queen City Hotel, Faulkton 401
Residences in Cresbard 149
Roseland, Elias, Residence 347
Ramsdell, Francis M 372
Ramsdell, Mrs. Laura 373
Steam Breaker in Faulk County 59
Sangster, Adam, Residence 89
Sisters' Convent and School, Zell 169
Swift, O. A., Residence 241
. Simmons, Rev. Thomas
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Simmons, Mrs. Anna R. 301
The Author 9
The Old Scd Shanty on the Claim 19
Turner, Frank, Residence 365
Wood, Rev. A. A. 447
Young, Fremont, Residence 385
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