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GILMAN, PETER, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, and was born December 31, 1833. At the age of eleven years he came to Washing- ton county, Wisconsin, and worked on a farm until 1863, when he en- listed in Co. C, 21st Wisconsin Infantry. Soon after, being disabled, he was discharged, but recovering from his disability re-enlisted in
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the 45th Wisconsin Infantry and remained in the military service until August 18, 1865, when he was discharged at Nashville, Tenn. In 1867 he went to Fon du Lac, Wis., and was engaged in the agri- cultural implement business nine years. On the 16th day of March, 1876, he arrived in Sioux Falls and has since resided there. He owned for several years a farm in Lincoln county; was in the agri- cultural implement business several years and for four years operat- ed a vinegar factory in Sioux Falls. He is a strong, vigorous man physically, a good neighbor and an active, energetic citizen.
GIPSON, ARTHUR H., was born in Brandon, Vermont, December 4, 1856, and removed with his parents to Racine county, Wiscon- sin when four years of age. He worked on a farm and attended school until he was eighteen years of age, graduating from the Roch- ester Seminary. He then went to Colorado, where he was engaged in various pursuits for several years, and then came to Dakota and resided at Volga until the spring of 1883, when he removed to Sioux Falls, where he has since resided engaged in the real estate and collection business. He has taken quite an active part in local politics, is a genial good fellow and a good citizen.
GLIDDEN, DANIEL S., was born in Clarendon, Orleans county, New York, on the 24th day of February, 1844. He was reared on a farm, attended the common schools, and completed his education at the State Normal school at Brockport, N. Y. He taught school one term in New York. In 1867, went to Anamosa, Iowa, where he taught school during the following winter. In 1868, went to Indian Town, Iowa, where he was in charge of the public schools five years. The next five years he was interested in a mercantile business at Montour, Iowa, and during the same time was in charge of the public schools at that place, and was a standing Democratic candidate for county superintendent of schools. Right here it might as well be said that he is a Democrat of a mild type. In 1878, he came to Sioux Falls, and engaged in the boot and shoe business five years. For four years he was a member of the territorial executive committee of the Democratic party, and treasurer of the organization. In 1887, he was elected warden of the South Dakota penitentiary, and con- ducted that institution for two years with credit to himself and the Territory. Mr. Glidden has been an active Mason for more than a quarter of a century, having held nearly every office in his lodge, chapter and commandery; "is known" as a Past Master, Past High Priest and Past Commander, and during 1887-8, he held the office of Grand Commander of the Territory of Dakota.
He is one of the best informed men in the state, his reading com- prising about everything but theology, and it is entertaining to hear him discuss any subject but that. He stands by his friends, especi- ally when they are in trouble, always feels well, is generous to a fault, is a good, honest, upright citizen, and has hosts of friends who are always ready to fall in line when Dan wants help.
GLIDDEN, MRS. D. S., whose maiden name was Josephine Mar- tin, was born in Clarendon, Orleans county, New York. She was educated in the public schools, and took a two years course at a
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school for young ladies at Rochester. She was married June 22, 1871, and came with her husband to Montour, Iowa, and resided there until they moved to Sioux Falls. Although her name appears inci- dentally elsewhere in this work in connection with the literary and musical organizations in Sioux Falls, the character of her services to the public requires a more extensive notice. Nearly twenty years ago she became interested in the establishment of a public library, and from that time up to the present, has labored persistently in this work. It is the method she adopted to accomplish her purpose, and the lesson it teaches, which we wish especially to call attention to. The library is now an established institution, and through the mu- nificence of one of our citizens, W. H. Lyon, has one of the finest build- ings in the city for its home. But, as Kipling would say, "that is another story." Mrs. Glidden did not procure large donations, but went at the work before her upon the cumulative plan, and from a small beginning gradually procured about four thousand well se- lected books which now belong to the Sioux Falls Free Public Li- brary Association. We do not mean to say that she accomplished this result alone, but we do mean to affirm that during all this time she has been the central figure in the enterprise, and it affords a splendid illustration of what might be accomplished in time by the constant, well-directed efforts of a person whose heart is in the work. Mrs. Glidden has also done much to cultivate and expand the liter- ary tastes and attainments of quite a large circle of ladies in Sioux Falls, and this has been accomplished with such rare tact and gen- uine disinterestedness that she is admired and loved by all her asso- ciates.
GLIEM, CHARLES C., of German parentage, was born at Charles- ton, South Carolina, Nov. 5, 1875. When only two months old went with his parents to Germany. In 1881, he returned to this country with an uncle, who settled in Benton county, Iowa. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools, and was graduated from Tilford college at Vinton, Iowa, in 1895. The next six months he spent in Germany, then returned to Lyon county, Iowa, and studied law, and was admitted to the bar in South Dakota April 5, 1898, and since then has been practicing law at Sioux Falls. Mr. Gliem attends strictly to business, and will make a good lawyer.
GOODELL, LEICESTER B., was born in Buffalo, New York, Decem- ber, 21, 1833. When twelve years old he commenced work for him- self at first in a box factory, then in a lath mill and ship yard, and when eighteen years old went to Illinois and worked on a farm five years. He then worked at the mason's trade until the civil war broke out, when he enlisted in the three months' service, and after that re-enlisted in Company B, 34th Illinois infantry, where he served a little over three years, and then enlisted in the Second Minnesota battery, and served until the close of the war. He then engaged in mason work and the scrap-iron business until in the spring of 1883, when he moved to Dakota, and located at Howard on the 7th of March of that year. He came to Sioux Falls on the 15th day of September, 1891, where he has since been engaged in city
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farming. He is an independent, positive character, and freely ex- presses his opinion upon public matters, and is an honest, upright citizen.
GRANT, REV. ARTHUR HASTINGS, is a native of New York City, N. Y., and was born November 16, 1865. He graduated from Cor- nell University in 1887, and was Registrar and Secretary of the same in 1888-90. He was pastor of the Unitarian Society of Freeville, N. Y., in 1889-91, and during this time was a regular correspondent for the New York Evening Post. He was on the editorial staff of the Dryden Herald in 1891, until he removed to South Dakota in July of that year to assume the duties of pastor of All Souls church of Sioux Falls. In this capacity his discussions on questions of public inter- est from the pulpit drew quite large congregations, and he fre- quently availed himself of the newspapers to put before the people his views upon public affairs. He was as prominent as a citizen as he was as a pastor. In 1892, he was elected president of the Sioux Falls Library Association and remained as such, until he removed to Newburgh, N. Y., in July, 1893, to take charge of the Unitarian church at that place. He met with very flattering success at New- burgh, and at one time caused quite a sensation in that staid old town by challenging the ministers of the orthodox churches singly or col- lectively to a public discussion of some of the fundamental proposi- tions of evangelical religion, which challenge was accepted and a joint discussion with an immense audience was the result. From the newspaper accounts that followed, it would seem that Mr. Grant was well equipped both for attack and defense, and made quite a reputa- tion as a public debater. In October, 1898, he left Newburgh to become minister of Unity church, Montclair, N. Y. The same year he published the Grant Family History, in which the decendants are numbered by a very ingenious method devised by him. Mr. Grant has a well stored and thoroughly disciplined mind, and with his studious and persevering habits, will undoubtedly be heard from in the future.
GREENE, HERBERT LAWRENCE, was born in Boston, Mass., October 14, 1861, and removed with his parents to Iowa in 1866. He received an academic education at McGregor, Iowa. At the age of eighteen years he was appointed to a clerkship in the Interior De- partment at Washington and remained there nine months. The chief clerk in the department accused him one day of being sparing of the truth, and a little episode occurred "then and there," and the next day the chief clerk was well enough to get Mr. Greene dis- charged. He then went to Rock Rapids, Iowa, and was engaged as principal of the high school for one year, at the expiration of which time he came to Sioux Falls. While in Washington he attended lec- tures at the Columbian law school, and upon his arrival in Sioux Falls in 1883, entered the law office of Winsor & Swezey and remained with them until he was admitted to the bar April 7, 1884. After his admission he practiced law in Sioux Falls for one year alone, and then formed a copartnership with Judge Parliman under the name of Parliman & Greene. This partnership continued for one year, when
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Mr. Greene accepted the position of general solicitor for the Insur- ance Company of Dakota, and remained with this company two years. After severing his connection with the insurance company he left the practice of law and engaged in the real estate business in Sioux Falls, in which he proved to be a successful promoter. During the dull times of 1892, he, with one or two others, secured the town site of Sisseton, in Roberts county, and this enterprise will undoubtedly materalize to his advantage in due time. He is well up in Masonry, and was one of the charter members of Granite lodge No. 18, of the Knights of Pythias, and was the first commander of the order in South Dakota. He has been very prominent in political matters. For two years he was president of the State Republican league, and received universal praise for a masterly thirty days' campaign, which he conducted at the time of the first Congressional election in the state. He was also at the Mitchell convention in 1890, and distin- guished himself by his admirable conduct of J. M. Bailey's fight for the nomination for state treasurer. His speech in placing his friend in nomination before the convention was excellent, and called forth the heartiest applause from his opponents. He is one of the finest after-dinner speakers in the state. At the banquet upon the opening of the Sioux Falls, Yankton and Southwestern R. R. he responded to the toast "South Dakota and South Dakotans." It was a splendid speech and was pronounced by those who heard it as one of the finest, most finished oratorical efforts that South Dakotans ever had the pleasure of listening to. This sketch will close here, but the future history of the county and state will undoubtedly have many lines interwoven, inspired by the work of Herbert L. Greene.
GRIGSBY, COL. MELVIN, was born June 8, 1845, at the village of Potosi, Grant county, Wisconsin. When four years of age he moved with his parents on to a farm, where he spent his early youth, at- tending district and village schools. At the breaking out of the war in 1861, he was anxious to enlist, but his father thought him too young to enlist, and sent him to the Lancaster Institute at Lancas- ter, Wisconsin, which, however, did not quench the war fever, and in November, 1861, he enlisted in Co. C, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry, and remained in active service or in confederate prisons until April 13, 1865, when he received his discharge. He was taken prisoner near Vicksburg, and spent eleven months in prison at Canton, Missis- sippi, Cahaba, Alabama, Andersonville, Georgia, and Florence, South Carolina. About six months of his time he spent in Andersonville. From the last prison at Florence, South Carolina, he escaped on the 10th day of January, 1865, and going south reached Sherman's army on the first day of February. He remained with the army until it reached Goldsboro, and then got permission to accompany General Sherman when he went to Eagle Point to meet General Grant, and from there he came on to Washington and home to Wisconsin. His experience while in prison, inspired him to write a book with the title of Smoked Yank, which has brought him considerable notoriety. After leaving the army he attended the university at Madison, Wis- consin, one year, and in 1866 went to the Normal school at Platte- ville, Wisconsin, where he remained until he graduated in 1869. He
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then was employed for one year as principal of the public schools at Horicon, Wisconsin, and held the same position at Darlington and also at Delevan in that state. During this time he had studied law, and at the end of his career as a teacher he entered the law office of Pitt Dewey at Lancaster. In the spring of 1872, he was admitted to the bar, and immediately thereafter started out on horseback in search of a place in which to locate. He arrived in Sioux Falls the first Sunday in June, and soon settled the question of residence in favor of this place. He entered into a copartnership with R. F. Pet- tigrew for the practice of law and in the real estate business, which continued until the fall of 1876. In 1877, in connection with Geo. M. Smith, he established the Dakota Pantagraph at Sioux Falls, but sold out a few months after. Mr. Smith remained in copartnership with Mr. Grigsby for nearly six years, during which time they started the Bank of Egan, at Egan, South Dakota, with Mr. Grigsby as president for the first year. He also started the Union County Bank at Elk Point, and was its first president; was one of the prin- cipal promoters of the Dakota National Bank in Sioux Falls, and was its first president. He has been very active in political life. In 1886, the Minnehaha county republican convention instructed its del- egates to the territorial congressional convention to present his name to the convention for nomination. In 1886, he was a pronounced can- didate for the congressional nomination. The convention was held at Watertown, and it was one of the notable conventions of territorial days. He had a large following and nearly votes enough to secure the nomination. The same year he was elected to the territorial council, and served in that capacity with marked ability. He was elected alderman from the Third ward at the first city election in 1883, and the same year was a delegate to the constitutional conven- tion held at Sioux Falls, September 4. Up to the time of the hold- ing of the republican state convention in 1894, he had been a Repub- lican, but not liking the financial plank in the republican platform he joined the Populists, believing the free coinage of silver to be the most important issue before the American people. He was nomi- nated by the party of his adoption for the state senate in 1894, but went down before the republican majority which swept the political ranks in Minnehaha county that year. In 1896 he was nominated on the populist state ticket for attorney general. He stumped the state for Bryan and free silver, and when the votes were canvassed he had the pleasure of knowing that he had more votes than any other candi- date upon the ticket in his own county and in the state. He was elected and performed the duties of his office until the war with Spain broke out, when he promptly tendered his services to the gov- ernment, asked for a colonel's commission and proposed to raise a cavalry regiment of cowboys for the military service. April 11, he went to Washington, where he learned that a bill inspired by Theo- dore Roosevelt was before Congress providing for the organization of a regiment of cowboys. Seeing that only one regiment of special volunteers could be raised under the provisions of the bill, Grigsby had his friends among the congressmen during the last forty minutes before a vote was taken propose an amendment which was adopted
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"authorizing the secretary of war to organize companies, troops, battalions or regiments possessing special qualifications from the Nation at large, including the appointment of the officers thereof." This bill was passed on April 22, and a week later he received his commission as colonel, with instructions to recruit the regiment of the Third United States Volunteer Cavalry. His force was mus- tered into service May 19, and the next day left for Chickamauga, the southern rendezvous. This regiment, known as "Grigsby's Cowboys " was a splendid regiment, and before long had the reputa- tion of being the best drilled and equipped of any at the park, and was frequently compared with Col. Roosevelt's regiment, known as "Teddy's Terrors," who did valiant service in front of Santiago, and made its colonel governor of New York. But, to the great dis- appointment of not only Col. Grigsby but of the entire regiment, the war was brought to a close without this regiment being ordered to the front. But the promptness of Col. Grigsby in not only offering his own services to the government, but in enlisting a body of men inured to hardship, with superior qualifications for the service ex- pected of them, is a tribute to his good judgment, courage and patriotism that will not soon be forgotten in South Dakota. He was popular with his men, and when the regiment was mustered out its officers presented him with a beautiful sword. During his absence at Chickamauga his son, Sioux K. Grigsby, as deputy attorney gen- eral, attended to the duties of this office with great ability.
The foregoing comprises a brief sketch of the colonel up to date, but when the time comes for the writing of his obituary, many things will undoubtedly have to be added to make his record complete.
HAAS, PETER F., was born in Detroit, Michigan, April 9, 1852. While a lad he attended the city. schools, and in 1874 was graduated from the Northwestern college at Napierville, Illinois. He then taught school until 1878, studying law during the time. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar, and practiced law at Grundy Center, Iowa, until 1880. On the 22d day of February of that year he arrived at Lennox, Lincoln county, Dakota, where he remained ten years, prac- ticing law. In February, 1890, he purchased the Dakota Deutsche Zeitung, published at Sioux Falls, and after changing its name to that of Dakota Staats Zeitung, has continued its publication to the present time. Mr. Haas is quite an able editorial writer, and is not only a good newspaper man but also a good citizen and takes an active part in all local matters.
RT. REV. W. H. HARE, D. D., Missionary Bishop of South Dakota, took up a profession which had been a favorite one with his ancestors and connections. His father was the Rev. George Emlen Hare, D. D., LL. D., late professor in the Philadelphia Divinity school, and was one of the American committee on the revision of the Authorized Version of the Bible. His grandfather, on his mother's side, was the celebrated Bishop Hobart, of New York; his great-grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, D. D., famous as one of the stanchest churchmen of Colonial days. His wife, who died a few years after their marriage, was a daughter of
RT. REV. W. H. HARE, D. D.
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the Rt. Rev. M. A. De Witt Howe, Bishop of Central Pennsylvania, by his first wife, Julia Amory.
Bishop Hare was born in Princeton, New Jersey, May 17. 1838. He took Holy Orders in the Episcopal church as soon as his age per- mitted, being ordained Deacon June 19, 1859, and Priest May 25, 1862. After holding two parochial cures he was appointed secretary and general agent of Foreign Missionary work of the Episcopal church. After he had been engaged in this work for a year, the House of Bishops in the general convention of 1871 nominated him to the House of Deputies for the Missionary Bishoprick of Cape Pal- mas, on the west coast of Africa, but withdrew their nomination on the earnest representations of the deputies that his services were in- valuable to the church in the office which he held.
A year later, All Saints Day, 1872, however, the Bishops elected him Missionary Bishop of Niobrara, that being for ecclesiastical pur- poses the name of a missionary district of the church in Dakota chiefly occupied by wild Indian tribes.
He was consecrated in St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, January 9, 1873, being next in order in the line of Bishops to his father-in- law, Bishop Howe, and the one-hundreth Bishop in the American line.
On the 10th day of January, 1888, the fifteenth anniversary of Bishop Hare's consecration was celebrated in Sioux Falls. Services were held in Calvary Cathedral, on which occasion the Bishop gave a brief account of his election as Missionary Bishop and the work he had done in performing the duties of this important office. The writer at the time was greatly impressed with the idea that no per- son situated as Bishop Hare was at the time of his election, possess- ing such rare qualities to command the most desirable positions in his chosen profession, could possibly have accepted the office, advised as he was of its privations and hardships, except from a profound sense that duty called him to make the sacrifice.
This address was published at the time, and the writer, recently reviewing it, came to the conclusion that he could do no better ser- vice to the readers of this work than to give them the main facts in the language of the distinguished prelate, who has done so much to advance civilization in the territory over which he was called to minister. The Bishop spoke in substance as follows:
This anniversary, which you, my dear friends, have kindly come together to make memorable, seems not only to justify, but to invite from me some personal reminiscences and some retrospective glances at the work in which as a Bishop I have been engaged.
On all Saints Day (Nov. 1, 1872. I was waited upon by the mem- bers of the Commission then charged with the care of the Church Indian Mission work, and informed that the House of Bishops had elected me to be Missionary Bishop of Niobrara.
Niobrara was the name of a river running along the border line between Nebraska and Dakota, and had been chosen as a convenient term in Ecclesiastical nomenclature for the large tract of country of which then little was known, save that it stretched northward from the river Niobrara, and was roamed over by the Poncas and different tribes of Sioux and Dakota Indians.
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The Jurisdiction proper of the Missionary Bishop of Niobrara was originally a tract of country bounded "on the east by the Mis- souri river; on the south by the State of Nebraska; on the west by the 104th Meridian, the Territory of Wyoming and Nebraska; on the north by the 46th degree of north latitude; including also the several Indian Reservations on the left bank of the Missouri, north and east of said river." In order to give unity and compactness to the effort of the church for the Indian tribes, the Missionary Bishop of Niob- rara was also authorized to take charge of the Rocky Mountains, as might be transferred to his oversight by the Bishops within whose Jurisdiction such work might lie.
The news was utterly unexpected, and fell upon me like a thun- derbolt from a clear sky. The honor was almost too much for my small stock of virtue. I was at the time Secretary and General Agent of the Foreign Mission Work of this Church, and deeply im- mersed, body, mind and heart in the work of making known the Gospel among the heathen in distant lands.
My first thought was to decline; and I informed my visitors that it would take me but a few hours to decide, and that if the House of Bishops would remain in session, they should have my answer without delay. But the House had done its dutv and adjourned, and left me to decide what was mine. The call was most solemn. It was from an authority that was next to that of the Head of the Church Himself. It came to one who held the opinion that the opposition of the indi- vidual judgment and will to the summons of the Church is almost fatal to her prompt and efficient conduct of her Missionary campaign, and should never be ventured except for reasons of paramount im- portance.
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