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BUCHANAN, FREDERICK, was born at Cherokee, Iowa, July, 23, 1872. He received his education in the schools at Cherokee and Sioux Falls, and completed the same in the State University at Ver-
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million, South Dakota. After this he engaged in newspaper work in Sioux City and Chicago, until a short time previous to the decease of his father, Robert Buchanan, when he became connected with the Forum, and upon his father's death in June, 1895, entered into co- partnership with his brother, Ceylon W., under the firm name of Buchanan Bros., and they continued the publication of the Forum until about the last of July, 1896, when it was sold to Schwartz & Grigsby. Soon after this sale he went to Yankton and commenced the publication of a daily newspaper, but finding the field an un- profitable one discontinued its publication at the end of the presiden- tial campaign. In connection with the Forum plant the Sioux Falls Printing Company furnished ready prints in Minnesota, Iowa and South Dakota. Fred Buchanan is possessed of a good many of the characteristics of his illustrious sire, especially that of an indomita- ble will in carrying out his projects, and we will hazard the predic- tion that he will be a lively factor in any community where he may reside.
BURNSIDE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, was born in Delaware county, New York, November 3, 1858. His father was a farmer, and remov- ed to Lynn county, Iowa, in 1871 and, of course, the subject of this sketch accompanied his parents to their western home. For three years he worked on a farm, but at the age of sixteen years he went to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and commenced work at the mason's trade, and continued in this business while residing in Iowa. On the 28th day of April, 1883, he arrived in Sioux Falls and went to work at his trade. In 1886-7 he was city marshal. In 1888 he bought out the bus line in the city of Sioux Falls and has had control of it since then. He was elected alderman from the Fifth ward in 1893, and at the three succeeding elections was re-elected to the same office. In 1898 he was nominated for Mayor by the Republican party, but was defeated by the present Mayor Lien by ten votes. He is a vote-get- ter if there is one in the city, but the combination against him was too strong to overcome. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., the B. P. O. E. and the Masons, and was at one time Grand Eminent Com- mander of the Knights Templar of South Dakota. He is a man of great energy, makes a good official and has a host of friends.
BUSCHER, REV. GERHARD H., was born at Wittlage, Hanover, Germany, December 30, 1864. His parents, who were hon- est and well-to-do people, came to this country when he was a small boy. They settled at Beardstown, Illinois, and the subject of this sketch for eight years attended the common schools of that place. Being what they called a "bright and honest" boy it was decided by his parents that he should study for the ministry, thisdecision quite concurring with his own inclination. Consequently in 1880 he went to Concordia Seminary at Springfield, Illinois, a theological institu- tion of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri. After two years he went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where for four years he mainly devoted himself to the study of ancient languages. Having in 1886 received the diploma of B. A., he entered Concordia Seminary at St. Louis, Missouri, where for the next three years he devoted his entire atten-
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tion to the study of theology. In 1889 he accepted a call as pastor of the German Lutheran Zion's Church of Sioux Falls, which charge he still occupies. Mr. Buscher is a man of high scholarly attain- ments, an earnest, faithful pastor, and well liked by his congrega- tion.
BUTIKOFER, HERMANN, was born near Berne, in Switzerland, September 27, 1862; was educated in the public schools, and took an academic course. His father was the proprietor of woolen mills, and had a retail and wholesale dry goods house. The subject of this sketch commenced at the bottom and worked up to the top through all the grades of his father's business. Emigrated to this country in 1882, arriving at Redfield, this state, December 25, of that year. The following spring broke twenty-five acres of prairie, engaged in merchandising for awhile, then visited the old country; returned to Redfield and engaged -in manufacturing straw burning stoves. In 1890 went to Mitchell, this state, and started the Sued Dakota Nach- richten, and published it at that place until May 15, 1896. Com- menced the publication of the Nachrichten at Sioux Falls January 23, 1896, and soon after moved to this place, where he has since re- sided. Mr. Butikofer is a good business man and is publishing a good newspaper, and is an enterprising, popular citizen.
BYINGTON, HENRY CLAY, was born in Ontario county, New York, September 15, 1853; received a common school and academic education and then clerked in a general store three years; engaged in raising fruit five years; came to Sioux Falls on the 30th day of December, 1882, where he engaged in the grocery business for five years and then was employed by J. G. Strahon as collector. He took up a farm in Brown county; traveled for B. C. McCrossan, the wholesale fruit dealer, for three years and then resumed his old po- sition with Mr. Strahon until June, 1898, when he again opened a grocery store in Sioux Falls. He is an industrious man, a good neighbor and a good citizen.
CALDWELL, ERNEST W., the subject of this sketch, was born June 13, 1846, at Chesterfield, Pa. He came West with his father when quite young and until he was eleven years of age attended the public schools where he resided. On the 12th day of August, 1857, he began his newspaper career in a newspaper office at Boonsboro, Iowa. At the age of fourteen years he published the Boonsboro Times, on shares, at New Boonsboro, Iowa. This partnership came to an untimely end by reason of one of the partners engaging in a drunken frolic with a circus outfit which was temporarily stop- ping there. When sixteen years of age he started the Jefferson City Star at New Boonsboro, for the purpose of printing the tax list for five counties. This paper was the only one published in western Iowa at that time between Sioux City and Des Moines. At the expiration of three months, after having completed the tax lists, he discontinued the publication of the paper and went to Des Moines and entered the printing office of a daily paper. He remained there until in 1864 when he enlisted in the 44th Iowa Infantry, and went to the front and helped clean up the rebellion. After his discharge he
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spent a year in Pennsylvania, then went to Omaha, Neb., and at the age of twenty-one years was foreman of the Herald job office. In 1868, he joined a co-operative company in Omaha and assisted in starting the Evening Times, but the enterprise failed in 1869, and he says he "followed the debris to Sioux City and assisted at the birth of the first daily newspaper ever published in that metropolis." He sold his interest in this paper in 1870and became connected with the Sioux City Journal, where he remained as printer, business man- ager, local reporter and chief editor for eight years. In 1878 he came to Sioux Falls and in connection with J. F. Stahl purchased the Pantagraph, which in 1882 was consolidated with the Times and be- came the Press. In 1879 he was village clerk of Sioux Falls; was postmaster from 1883 to 1885, and was appointed territorial auditor and insurance commissioner of Dakota in 1885, and held these posi- tions two years.
In 1887 Mr. Caldwell and Charles H. Price were appointed to compile the territorial laws. He was a member of the constitutional convention of South Dakota in 1889 and was a member of the joint commission to adjust the assets and liabilities of the territory be- tween the states of North and South Dakota. But it is as editor of the Daily Press that he is best known. It is in this field he has won his way to the hearts of the people, and no name in the state is more familiar than that of E. W. Caldwell. His editorials em- brace almost every topic of the day; sometimes the great questions of science are discussed; the literary subjects receive his attention; theology is shaken up; political economy elucidated. In short, the subjects that come to his editorial pen are too numerous to enumerate. No line along which the average mind is accustomed to travel is with- out Caldwell's guide posts. But the best feature of his editorial work is the spirit of fairness, good nature and kindliness which ac- companies his bright and vigorous style. As a man he is generous, genial and companionable; as a citizen, honest and enterprising; as a politician-well, he generally helps to make up the band wagon train, and is in the driver's seat before the motive power is attached. He is "Cal" to everybody, rich and poor, old and young, and what is more he is color blind.
Since the foregoing was written Mr. Caldwell has terminated his connection with the Press and removed to Sioux City, Iowa. In the Sunday morning's issue of the Sioux Falls Daily Press November 15, 1896, Mr. Caldwell announced that his connection with the Press as proprietor and editor had ceased and that he was about to remove from the state. It occasioned great surprise and regret among his thousands of friends not only in Sioux Falls and its immediate vicinity but throughout the state. The loss to the city of Sioux Falls was deeply felt, and the high esteem in which he was held by her citizens was shown by numerous testimonials by his former employes and or- ganizations with which he had been connected, and especially by an elaborate banquet that was tendered him by the Commercial Club of the city. He is now in editorial charge of the Sioux City Journal at Sioux City, Iowa.
E. W. CALDWELL.
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CAMPBELL, B. F., was born at Machias, Maine, October 30, 1838, and died at the city of Sioux Falls June 27, 1898. In 1852, he re- moved to Aurora, New York, and from there to Aurora, Illinois, in 1856, where he engaged in the hardware business until the breaking out of the rebellion. He enlisted in the three months' service in the Seventh Illinois infantry. September 23, 1861, he re-enlisted in Company B, Thirty-sixth Illinois to serve three years, and was mustered in as captain of that company December 10, 1862. He was made lieutenant colonel of the regiment April 25, 1865, promoted to colonel May 10, and mustered out of the service October 8, 1865. He was wounded in the right thigh and taken prisoner at the battle of Stone River, Tennessee, December 30, 1862; in April, 1863, he was paroled, and on the 9th day of May following, was exchanged. On September 20, 1863, he was again wounded in the thigh and body and taken prisoner in the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., and was confined in Libbey prison until paroled, December 10, 1864. March 20, 1865, he was exchanged. In March, 1868, he removed from Illinois to Ver- million, in this state, and in May, 1869, was appointed register of the land office located at that place. In June, 1873, the land office was removed to Sioux Falls, and Colonel Campbell came with it, and re- sided there until his death. For the last twenty years he was an active worker in all the Masonic bodies; he was a charter member of the El Riad Temple and the Elks lodge of Sioux Falls, and was Past Eminent Commander of Cyrene Commandery No. 2. He was an esteemed citizen, and held many positions of honor and trust, among them that of postmaster of Sioux Falls for nearly five years; and only a few days before his death he was elected president of the Minne- haha National Bank of Sioux Falls. Socially he was the peer of any man in the state, and in his death Sioux Falls mourns the loss of one of her best citizens.
CAREY, WILLIAM J., was born in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, in 1854; was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. In 1873, he came to this county and settled in Red Rock, taking up as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres in section twenty, where he resided until he moved into the village of Valley Springs. He was for a short time engaged in the butcher business, then in the ma- chinery business, and for several years in buying and shipping stock. He now resides at Sioux Falls, engaged in the same business. For five years he was deputy sheriff under Sheriff Sundback, and re- ceived the nomination for sheriff from the Republican party in 1892. but it was a close year for Republicans in Minnehaha county, and there was a popular independent republican candidate running for the same office, and Mr. Carey was defeated at the polls, although his vote was surprisingly large under the circumstances. He has held various town offices, and was president of the village of Valley Springs in 1895 and 1896. He is a man of integrity, energetic and enterprising, and justly popular with the people.
CARLAND, JOHN E., was born in Oswego county, New York, December 11, 1854. He attended the law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of that
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state in October, 1875. The next two years he spent in the office of the Hon. John G. Hawley, a distinguished lawyer at Detroit. In August, 1877, went to Bismarck, North Dakota, and commenced the practice of law; was city attorney of that place for about four years, and also county attorney one year. In April, 1885, was elected mayor of Bismarck, but, receiving the appointment of United States district attorney for the Territory of Dakota, May 23, following, he resigned the office of mayor and entered upon the duties of his ap- pointment; remained district attorney until March, 1888, when he re- ceived the appointment of associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Dakota. Upon assuming the duties of this office he became judge of the fourth judicial district. In April, 1889, he re- signed this office, and in May following was elected a member of the constitutional convention which framed the constitution of North Dakota; was nominated by his party for president of this convention,
In but, as the party was in the minority, he was not elected. this convention he took a prominent part, receiving the appointment of chairman of the judicial department. After the work of the con- stitutional convention had been completed, he removed to Sioux Falls, and entered into a copartnership with T. B. McMartin for the practice of law, under the firm name of McMartin & Carland, which continued until the 23d day of September, 1893. After the dissolu- tion of this firm he practiced by himself, having in charge some of the most important litigation in the state. He was also employed in some very important cases in the United States courts, and gained some notoriety in obtaining a large verdict in the case of Fullerton against the Homestake Mining Company, and more recently was honored by the appointment of special assistant United States attor- ney to conduct the case of the United States against the Homestake Mining Company in which the government brought suit to recover seven hundred thousand dollars for the illegal cutting of timber be- longing to the government. But before the trial of this important case was reached he was appointed United States district judge for the district of South Dakota. This appointment so gratifying to the judge and his friends was made on the 3d day of September, 1896. The members of the bar throughout the state congratulated the judge upon his good fortune, and also themselves upon having se- cured a federal judge in the State of South Dakota in whom all classes of people have the greatest confidence. He is not only a good lawyer, but has a judicial temperament, and his integrity is beyond question. His official career thus far has met the approbation of all, and no one regrets that Judge Carland has a life appointment to an office he is so well qualified to fill. It only remains to add to his many other good qualities, that he is a genial, kind-hearted man, and highly esteemed by all who know him.
CARLETON, HARRY B., was born in Marshfield, Vermont, Octo- ber 10, 1867. When eighteen years of age he came to Sioux Falls and entered the law office of Boyce & Boyce, where he remained until 1888. He then spent a year with White & Brown, court re- porters. Upon the election of Albion Thorne as clerk of the courts, Harry was appointed deputy clerk, and held this place during Mr.
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Thorne's administration of four years. In 1894. he received the republican nomination for clerk of the courts, and ran about three hundred votes ahead of his ticket. His conduct of the office was so satisfactory that at the republican county convention in 1896 he re- ceived a renomination by acclamation, but was defeated at the elec- tion with the rest of his comrades on the ticket. At the expiration of his term of office he entered into a copartnership with Judge Par- liman for the practice of law, but after a few months abandoned the profession, and accepted a good position with a large business house in Chicago where he now resides.
CARLETON, JERRY, was born at Montpelier, Vermont, October 10, 1865. He attended school andworked on a farm until he removed to Dakota. He arrived in Sioux Falls, May 13, 1882, and was em- ployed as express messenger between Tracy, Minn., and Pierre, Da- kota, until the March following, at which time he returned to Sioux Falls and entered the American Express office, where he remained several months. In November, 1882, he bought an interest in the Peterson meat market, and continued in this business until January 1, 1890, when he sold out and engaged in farming three years. Dur- ing 1894 and 1895 he was employed in the county treasurer's office of this county. On the 1st day of October, 1897, he was appointed chief deputy United States marshal under Marshal Kennedy. He has been a very active member of the Sioux Falls fire department for several years, and has been its chief. Jerry is well known in political circles and could be removed from his present office of marshal by an ad- verse administration for pernicious activity in politics under the civil service rule. A trial would not be necessary as he would plead guilty. However, he makes a careful, painstaking official, and has a host of friends.
CARR, WILLARD P., is a native of Ashfield, Franklin county, Massachusetts, and was born August 4, 1834. Until seventeen years of age he attended school and worked on a farm, and then commenced clerking in a store at Conneaut, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he remained one year, and then went to Cleveland, Ohio, following the same occupation until the spring of 1855. He then went to New Lis- bon, Wisconsin, and entered into a copartnership in the mercantile business with a brother-in-law under the firm name of Surdam & Carr. This firm was dissolved at the end of four years, and Mr. Carr continued in trade twelve years longer at the same place. He was city treasurer of Lisbon for four years. In 1871 he removed to Vermillion, Dakota, and engaged in business as a merchant for nine years and came to Sioux Falls, August 13, 1882. He had been suc- cessful in business, and after having taken up his residence in Sioux Falls he engaged in loaning money. He was appointed postmaster of Sioux Falls by President Cleveland in 1885, and held this office the full term of four years. In 1892 he removed to River Falls, Wiscon- sin, and in connection with Nelson B. Bailey started the Farmers and Merchants bank at that place, of which he was president. Mr. Carr about the same time started another bank in Wisconsin, which is managed by his son-in-law.
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Mr. Carr has always been known as a good business man and re- liable citizen. Notwithstanding his residence in Wisconsin he has retained a large and valuable property in Sioux Falls, and upon the assessment roll in the amount of taxes set against his name he is nearer the head of the list than he is alphabetically.
CARTER, JERVIS W., was born in Benson, Rutland county, Ver- mont, May 18, 1830. His father was a merchant, and the subject of this sketch attended the public schools, and fitted for entering the sophomore class in college at Castleton seminary, Castleton, Vt. When twenty years old he went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he was emploved in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for two years. He then removed to Watertown, Wis., where he taught school three vears. He next engaged for one year in the newspaper business in Portage county, Wis., and published a republican newspaper during the Fremont campaign. After the election he entered the law office of Sloan & Lander, at Beaver Dam, and after being admitted to the . bar, practiced law in New London and Waupaca, and was elected county attorney four terms and was a member of the legislature one term. From Wisconsin he removed to Gage county, Neb., where he was judge of probate two terms. In 1885 he came to Dakota, re- mained at Yankton a few months, and then located at Canton, in Lin- coln county, where he practiced law until 1890. While a resident of Canton he was county attorney six years, and district attorney of the fourth judicial district four years. In 1890 he removed to Pierre and was in the land office at that place four years. During the last six months of Governor Sheldon's administration, he was his private secretary. In March, 1896, he removed to Sioux Falls, where he now resides. Judge Carter is a good lawyer, was a successful prose- cutor, is a genial gentleman, a highly respected citizen, and has a host of friends.
CASHMAN, LEONARD, was born in Clinton county, N. Y., Feb- ruary 27, 1858. When fifteen years of age he commenced railroad- ing, but two years later engaged in carpenter work, and at twenty years of age went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and learned the mill- wright's trade. October 22, 1880, he came to Sioux Falls, and worked for about two years at the Queen Bee mill. The next seven years he had a carpenter shop in Sioux Falls, and carried on a farm, and since then has been engaged as a traveling salesman and collector. Mr. Cashman is an active, enterprising citizen.
CHERRY, U. S. G., was born near Bellefontaine, Ohio. He at- tended the district school when a lad, and completed his education at the Ohio Normal University at Ada, where he was graduated in 1895. He then entered the law office of Judge West "The Blind Orator of Ohio" where he remained one year. From there he went to the Columbian Law School at Washington, D. C., where he was gradu- ated in 1887, receiving the first prize for legal essay. On the first day of December, 1887, came to Dakota, and on the 21st day of Feb- ruary, following, commenced the practice of law at Sioux Falls. In 1892, he was elected Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of South Dakota. Mr. Cherry is a hard worker and a good lawyer and
Sander ST.L.
U. S. G. CHERRY.
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has a remunerative practice. He is quite active in politics, and being a good speaker and well informed, his services are in demand during political campaigns. Until 1896 he was a republican, but after the adoption of the platform at St. Louis by the Republican party that year, he became a Silver Republican, assisted in organiz- ing the Silver Republican party in South Dakota, and became the chairman of the state executive committee, which position he still holds.
CHRISTOPHERSON, ANTON, is a native of Norway, and was born March 16, 1854. In 1868, he emigrated to Albert Lea, Minnesota, and remained there on a farm until 1882, when he went to Grand Forks, North Dakota, and in company with Peter J. Morstad went into the clothing trade. On the 25th day of April, 1883, the firm re- moved to Sioux Falls, where it has been doing a successful business since that time. Mr. Christopherson is a good business man and an esteemed citizen. In 1884, he was elected alderman from the First ward and served two years, making an upright, honest official.
CHRISTOPERSON, CHARLES A., was born in Fillmore county, Minnesota, July 23, 1871. He was raised on a farm and attended the public schools during his youth. He came to Sioux Falls November 24, 1890, and entered the Sioux Falls Business College, from which he graduated in 1891. He then commenced the study of law, and was admitted to practice March 8, 1893. He entered Joe Kirby's law office, where he remained one year, and then opened a law office by himself, and has continued in the practice of his profession since then. He has thus far been engaged principally in the line of collec- tions, and is an efficient collector. He is a young man of great in- dustry and perseverance, and is a growing lawyer.
CHRISTOPHERSON, G. C .- The subject of this sketch was born at Amherst, Fillmore county, Minnesota, in 1865. He obtained his early education in the district school, and in 1881 entered the Decorah Institute; from there he went to the LaCrosse Business Col- lege, and graduated from that institution in 1885. Two years later he took a special teacher's course at the same college from Professor Wallace, and in 1887, when Professor Wallace purchased the busi- ness school at Sioux Falls, Mr. Christopherson was made principal of the same, which position he held until in the spring of 1892, when he became the proprietor.
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