History of South Dakota, Vol. I, Part 101

Author: Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946. cn
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Logansport? IN] : B. F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 998

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On the 23d of March, 1890, Mr. Scott was united in marriage to Miss Eva Kuhn, of Le- Grande, Oregon, and they have three children, Dayne K., Owen L. and Norman D.

JOHN W. TUTHILL, who is one of the leading business men of the state, being president of the John W. Tuthill Lumber Company, which controls twenty-one lumber yards, in South Da- kota, Minnesota and Iowa, maintains his home in Sioux Falls and is honored for his sterling character and for the energy and sagacity which have enabled him to attain so high a degree of success through his own efforts.

Mr. Tuthill was born in the village of Greene, Chenango. county, New York. July 6, 1846, being a son of George and Hannah S. (Davis) Tuthill, both of whom were born in the state of New York, where the latter died in 1852. The father of the subject removed to Pennsylvania in 1851 and was a resident of Carbondale, that state, until

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1856, when he came west to Iowa, where he de- voted the remainder of his life to his trade, that of millright, his death occurring in 1877. The sub- ject was five years of age at the time of his fa- ther's removal to Pennsylvania, where he received his early scholastic training in the public schools of Carbondale, and he was ten years of age upon coming to Iowa, where he completed his common- school education. In 1862 he went to the city of Chicago, where he was employed four years as bookkeeper and teller in the banking house of Coolbaugh & Brooks. In October, 1865, he en- tered the employ of C. Lamb & Son, lumber manufacturers in Clinton, Iowa, remaining with this firm until July, 1869, when he decided to en- gage in business upon his own responsibility. He accordingly located in State Center, Iowa, where he established a lumber yard, the same proving the nucleus of the magnificent business which he has since built up in this line. In March, 1882, Mr. Tuthill came to Sioux Falls, and purchased the lumber business of Edwin Sharpe & Com- pany, the firm of Tuthill & King being then or- ganized for the prosecution of the enterprise. Mr. King died on the 3d of February, 1884, and then the subject entered into partnership with his brother Squire G., under the firm name of Tuthill Brothers. On the 18th of August, 1884, the John W. Tuthill Lumber Company was incor- porated, having now a capital stock of two hun- dred thousand dollars, and controlling an exten- sive and important business throughout this sec- tion of the great northwest. In addition to the large and well equipped yard in Sioux Falls, the company also has branch yards at Hartford, Montrose, Humbolt, Salem, Spencer, Farmer, Valley Springs. Ellis, Fulton, Trent, Wentworth, Redfield and Athol, this state: Windom, Worth- ington, Beaver Creek, Hills and Round Lake, Minnesota, and Merrill and Larchwood, Iowa.

Mr. Tuthill is a stanch advocate of the princi- ples of the Republican party, but is intrinsically and essentially a business man and has never found time to dabble in politics, though he mani- fests a public-spirited interest in all that concerns his home city and state. He is a Master Mason and also a member of the Ancient Arabic Order

of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He takes a deep interest in the welfare and progress of Sioux Falls and is one of its valued citizens. In 1903 he presented to the public library a valuable collection of books, the same representing an ex- penditure of about one thousand dollars.

On the 22d of September, 1868, in Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Tuthill was married to Miss Jennie M. Buck, and of their children we enter the fol- lowing brief record: Arthur W. is secretary and treasurer of the lumber company of which his father is president ; George B. is general manager of the outside yards, and Chauncey L. is cashier of the company.

VILROY T. WILSON, M. D .- In the en- tire category of avocations to which a man may devote his energies there is none which involves a greater responsibility than that of the physi- cian and surgeon, in whose hands often rest the issues of life itself, and he to whom genuine suc- cess comes in this exacting profession is the one thoroughly appreciative of this responsibility and animated by the deeper pity and sympathy which transcend the mere emotion to become a motive -that motive being the relief of suffering. The subject of this review is one of the able members of the medical profession in South Dakota, being established in a thriving practice in Hudson, Lin- coln county, where his services and ministrations have been such as to gain to him the confidence and esteem of the community. The Doctor is a son of Harmon V. and Lucy A. (Briggs) Wilson, and comes of stanch New England ancestry, both families having long been identified with the an- nals of American history. He was born in Wood- stock, Windsor county, Vermont, on the 6th of April, 1849, and there he attended the common schools until he had attained the age of fifteen years, when his youthful patriotism was kindled to responsive action, as the integrity of the Union hung in the balance through the menace of armed rebellion. On the 3d of August, 1862, in his native town, Dr. Wilson enlisted as a private in Company C. Sixth Vermont Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, his com-

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mand being assigned to the Army of the Poto- mac. He participated in a number of important battles and ever stood at the post of duty, though a mere boy at the time, continuing to serve until victory had crowned the Union arms and being mustered out, at Burlington, Vermont, on July 3, 1865.

After his return from the war Dr. Wilson re- sumed his interrupted educational work by enter- ing Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, New Hampshire, in which he completed a three-years course, being graduated as a member of the class of 1868. Soon afterward he was matriculated in the medical department of famous old Dart- mouth College, at Hanover, New Hampshire, where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated in 1872, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1876 he came west to McGregor, Iowa, where he was successfully engaged in prac- tice for two years, at the expiration of which he lo- cated in Waterloo, that state, where he continued his professional endeavors until 1888, when he came to Hudson, South Dakota, and established himself in practice as one of the early physicians of the county. He has received a representative support from the start and is one of the leading practitioners of this section of the state, keeping in close touch with the advances made in his pro- fession and thoroughly devoted to its work. He has been a member of the United States pension- examining board of the county since 1892, and ever shows a deep interest in the old comrades in arms who rendered so valiant service during the most crucial epoch in our national history. He holds membership in the South Dakota State Medical Society, in whose work he takes an ac- tive part, being held in high regard by his pro- fessional confreres. Fraternally the Doctor is identified with Jeptha Lodge, No. 132, Free and Accepted Masons; Hudson Lodge, No. 62, Knights of Pythias ; and Ft. Donelson Post, No. 108, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is past commander and at present medical director.

On the 24th of June, 1874, Dr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Louise D. Davis, of Plymouth, Vermont, a daughter of William H.

and Sophia Davis. They have an adopted son, Paul H.

FRANK MULLEN is one of the honored pioneers of South Dakota, where he has main- tained his home for more than thirty years, while for more than two decades he has held the responsible office of clerk of the Rosebud Indian agency, with headquarters in the village of Rose- bud, Meyer county. He is held in high esteem by all who know him, is a typical westerner in spirit and is well deserving of representation in this historical compilation.

Mr. Mullen is a native of the great Lone Star state of the Union, having been born in Bexar county, Texas, on the 6th of July, 1848, and being a son of Ralph and Caroline (Black) Mul- len, natives respectively of North Carolina and Virginia and both of stanch Irish lineage. They were numbered among the early settlers in Texas, where they passed the closing years of their lives, the father having there devoted his attention to the vocation of law. The subject of this sketch received his educational training in the schools of Austin, Texas, and in 1863, when but fifteen years of age, he was appointed to a clerkship in the quartermaster's department of the Confederate army, the Civil war being in progress at the time. During 1864-5 he served as captain and assistant quartermaster of the Confederacy in his native state, and after the close of the war he became clerk in the same department of the Union service, thus serving in Texas from 1866 to 1869, inclusive. In 1870 he engaged in business in the city of San An- tonio, that state, continuing operations there until 1872, when he came as a pioneer to the great undivided territory of Dakota, where he was in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company until 1874, when he took up his resi- dence at the old Spotted Tail Indian agency, with whose affairs he became identified. On the 23d of August, 1883, he was appointed clerk at this agency, whose name had been changed to Rose- bud, its present cognomen, and he has since re-

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mained incumbent of this office, in which he has given most discriminating and acceptable service. In politics he gives an unqualified al- legiance to the Republican party, and fraternally he is one of the prominent Masons of the state, having passed the degrees of the lodge, chapter and commandery in the York Rite and attained the thirty-second degree and been proclaimed a Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret in the con- sistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite at Aberdeen, while he is also affiliated with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Both he and his wife are com- municants of the Protestant Episcopal church.

On the 25th of July, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mullen to Miss Jennie Colomb, who was born on the 16th of Decem- ber, 1859, being a daughter of John B. and Josephine (Dorion) Colomb. They are the par- ents of three children, Amy, Norah and John.

WILLIAM TATE is one of the represent- ative business men of Sioux Falls, where he is a wholesale and retail dealer in bar glassware and supplies, wines and liquors, etc. He is a native of the old Green Mountain state, having been born in the city of Rutland, Vermont, on the 15th of August, 1863, and being a son of Charles R. and Mary (Clark) Tate. He re- ceived his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native city and when he was a lad of eight years his parents removed to the city of Chicago, and later to Rochelle, Illinois, where he continued his studies in the public schools, as did he later in Sioux Falls, South Da- kota, to which place his parents came in 1876, being pioneers of the city and state. For nine years Mr. Tate was engaged in herding cattle for different individuals, and he then secured em- ployment in a wholesale liquor house in Sioux Falls, that of the firm of Hickey & McNamara, with whom he remained until 1901, in which year he opened his present place of business, at 229 North Phillips avenue, where he has built

up a profitable enterprise, while he has gained a wide circle of friends in the city. He is identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and in politics exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, though he has never taken any active part in public affairs.

On the 9th of January, 1886, Mr. Tate was united in marriage to Miss Hannah J. McCarty, who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and who was a resident of Sioux Falls at the time of her marriage. They have one child, Lila Mary, who is fourteen years of age at the time of this writing.

CHARLES H. BARTELT, one of the repre- sentative young members of the bar of the state, has so directed his course as to retain the confi- dence and esteem of his professional confreres and of his clients. Mr. Bartelt is a native of the city of Hamburg, Germany, where he was born on the Ist of June, 1876, but he has passed prac- tically his entire life in the United States, whither his parents emigrated in 1882. His father, Henry Bartelt, followed a seafaring life prior to his emi- gration to the United States, and here he con- tinued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits until his retirement from active business. He and his wife now reside in the village of Holstein, Iowa, and are persons of the sterling characteristics which so clearly designate the true German type. The subject of this review received his early educational discipline in the public schools of Cherokee county, Iowa, and Sioux City, Iowa, after which he continued his studies in the high school at Ponca, Nebraska. He later entered the Western Normal College, at Lincoln, that state, where he completed a thorough course and was then matriculated in the Nebraska State Univer- sity, in the same city, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1893. He then took up the study of law, under the preceptorship of Hon. Park Davis, of Sioux Falls, prosecuted his technical reading with marked appreciation and scrupulous care, and he was admitted to the bar

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in 1899. In the month of December, 1896. he came to Sioux Falls, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. On June 1, 1903, the subject formed a partner- ship with J. E. McMahon and they have already gained a satisfactory share of patronage. In poli- tics Mr. Bartelt is an uncompromising Republi- can, taking a deep interest in the issues and ques- tions of the hour and keeping well informed on matters of public policy. Fraternally he is identi- fied with the Masonic order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias.

On the 25th of June, 1901, Mr. Bartelt was united in marriage to Miss Victoria O'Laughlin, a daughter of William O'Laughlin, of Sioux Falls, she being a native of Iowa.

ALBERT N. QUALE has well equipped offi- ces in the Minnehaha building, at the corner of Ninth street and Phillips avenue, in the city of Sioux Falls, and conducts an extensive enterprise under the title of the Quale Land Company, buy- ing and selling farm lands in both North and South Dakota, handling wild land, improved farms and stock ranches, negotiating exchanges and managing estates, while he also deals in im- proved and unimproved realty in the various cities and towns of the state.

Albert N. Quale was born in Minnehaha county, South Dakota, on the 30th of September, 1878, this being many years prior to the segrega- tion of the two Dakotas, which then comprised one vast territorial division of the national do- main. He is a son of Torgeli T. and Agatha (Es- tenes) Quale, who came as pioneers to Dakota territory in the spring of 1878, the father taking up a homestead claim in Tarpi township, Minne- haha county, and having become one of the prom- inent and honored farmers and stock growers of this section. He and his wife still reside on the homestead, on which he has made the best of im- provements, and he is now the owner of a valu- able landed estate of one hundred and sixty acres. Both he and his wife are native of the far Norse- land, having been born in Norway, where they

were reared to maturity. In 1876 they set sail from Bergen, Norway, and started forth to seek their fortunes in America, landing in the port of New York in due course of time and thence mak- ing their way westward to Iowa, locating in Win- neshiek county, where they remained until com- ing to South Dakota. Of their six children five are living, and the family is held in high estima- ton in the county, with whose history the name has been identified for a quarter of a century.

The subject of this review passed his youthful days on the homestead farm, early beginning to assist in its work, while his educational training was secured in the public schools. He remained on the farm until 1897, when he secured a clerk- ship in a mercantile establishment at Baltic, while later he was successfully engaged in selling farm- ing machinery and implements at Colton and Dell Rapids. Finally he became identified with the real-estate business, as an employe of a firm in Brown county, and his success in this field led him to engage in the same line of enterprise on his own responsibility. Accordingly, in the win- ter of 1902, he came to Sioux Falls and estab- lished the Quale Land Company, being in sole control of the business. In politics Mr. Quale is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Repub- lican party, and fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He enjoys marked popularity in business and so- cial circles and is one of the prominent and rising young men of his native state.

CORA W. CARPENTER, M. D .- Greater than in all other lines of endeavor to which one can direct his attention is the responsibility that rests upon the physician and surgeon, in whose hands often rest the very destinies of life itself. This noble profession, in which pity .must be- come a motive rather than a mere emotion, most consistently may enlist the services of the woman practitioner, and each year shows a greater popular appreciation of her interposition in this great work. The city of Sioux Falls has an able representative of the medical profession in Dr. Carpenter, who has here established her-

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self in a successful and representative practice, faithfully doing the work which comes to her hand and demanding no concessions by reason of her sex, as she is strong in her professional enthusiasm and in the intimate technical knowl- edge which is demanded in general practice.

Dr. Carpenter is a native of the state of Iowa, having been born in the city of DesMoines, on the 30th of December, 1868, and being a daughter of John A. and Florida ( Boone) White. who are yet both living, the former being a farmer by vocation, being a native of Ohio, and the mother of Indiana. The Doctor secured her preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of her native city, and accompanied her parents on their removal to Fargo, North Da- kota, in 1882, completing a course in the high school of that city and being graduated as a member of the class of 1888. Having deter- mined to prepare herself for the medical profes- sion, Dr. Carpenter was matriculated in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, affiliated with the University of Illinois, in 1897, completing the prescribed course and being graduated as a mem- ber of the class of 1901, receiving her degree of Doctor of Medicine. She also took a careful clinical course in the Frances Willard Hospital, in the city of Chicago, thus coming forth spe- cially well fortified for the active work of her chosen profession. In January, 1902, Dr. Car- penter came to Sioux Falls and established her- self in practice, and the best evidence of her technical ability and gracious personality is that afforded by the unequivocal success which has attended her efforts, her attractive and well equipped office being located in the Minnehaha building.

HANS A. USTRUD is a prominent figure in educational circles and is now incumbent of the office of county superintendent of schools of Minnehaha county, retaining his residence in the city of Sioux Falls, the beautiful county seat. Mr. Ustrud comes of stanch Norwegian ancestry and is a native of Minnehaha county, having been born at Baltic, on the 4th of November, 1871,

a son of Halvor O. and Julia ( Kaasa) Ustrud, both of whom were born near Skien, Norway, whence they came to America in 1866, while in 1868 they became pioneers of Minnehaha county, South Dakota, where they still reside, the father devoting his attention to farming. The subject of this sketch received his early educational train- ing in the public schools of his native county, and the scenes and incidents of the pioneer epoch were familiar to him in his boyhood. In 1890 he en- tered the" Lutheran Normal School, at Sioux Falls, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895. He forthwith became a suc- cessful and popular teacher in the schools of his native county, with whose educational interests he has ever since been intimately identified with the exception of three years, during which inter- val he was principal of the public schools at Rock- dale, Dane county, Wisconsin. After his return to South Dakota he again became a teacher in the schools of Minnehaha county, and in November, 1902, he was elected county superintendent of schools, in which capacity he has accomplished most effective work, systematizing and unifying the school work in his jurisdiction and infusing zeal and enthusiasm among the teachers. As this is the most populous county in the state it is essential that its educational interests should be placed in the hands of a competent executive, and the course of Mr. Ustrud has been such as to amply justify the confidence of the people who placed him in office. In politics the subject is an uncompromising Republican and one of the lead- ers in the local ranks of the "grand old party." He has been delegate to both state and county conventions and was for four years a member of the Republican central committee of his county. He is a member of the Lutheran church and ac- tive in its work.

CHARLES B. COLLINS, state treasurer, was born in 1861 at Rockbridge, Wisconsin. He is a pharmacist and engaged in drug business at Groton. Delegate to national convention at Philadelphia, 1900, and elected state treasurer, 1902.

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MARK WENTWORTH SHEAFE .- In a publication which purports to touch upon the history of the men and forces whose contribution to the development, splendid advancement and material prosperity of the great commonwealth of South Dakota has been of distinctive scope and importance, it is but consistent that more than passing attention be accorded to the distin- guished citizen and honored pioneer whose name initiates this paragraph and who has been of marked service to the state through various ave- nties of usefulness.

General Sheafe, who is one of the leading citizens of Watertown, Codington county, is a native of the Empire state of the Union, having been born in the city of Brooklyn, New York, on the 18th of May, 1844, and being a son of Mark Wentworth Sheafe and Mary Ann (Cook) Sheafe. His father was a shipper and merchant in the West Indian and South American trade. and for twenty-six years was a sea captain, com- manding his own ship. His father served for a short period in the war of 1812, and subsequently was for many years a resident of Buenos Ayres, which is now a part of the Argentine Confedera- tion. In the agnatic line the subject of this sketch is a scion of the family of Wentworths, whose genealogy is traced back in England to as early a date as the year 910, the records being authentic and still extant. This ancient family was of Saxon origin and its history shows that its representatives fought against William the Conqueror in defense of their native land, while the annals of English history establish the fact that members of the family held in the various generations positions of great honor under the British throne. A notable case was that of Sir Thomas Wentworth, earl of Stafford, who was prime minister to King Charles I and lord lieu- tenant of Ireland. He was executed in the Tower of London in the year 1615, having been in a most dastardly manner abandoned by his king, who, in the hope of saving his own life, betrayed his faithful prime minister into the hands of the enemies, the Puritans. Latterly we find a men- ber of this historic family incumbent of the posi- tion of governor of one of the New Hampshire

provinces in America under King George III, prior to the war of the Revolution. Governor Benning Wentworth, one of the last of the royal governors of New Hampshire, was the great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, while it may be further noted that Hon. John Went- worth, commonly known as "Long John" Went- worth, one of the first mayors of the city of Chi- cago, was a second cousin of the General.

The family of Sheafe originated in quaint and historic old Cranbrook, England, and the ances- try is authentically traced back only to the year 1520. Soon after the landing of the Pilgrins in Massachusetts one Jacob Sheafe, an ancestor of the subject, settled in Boston, and the records of that city indicate that he died in 1658, and his remains now lie in the old colonial burying ground in the heart of the city of Boston and adjacent to the old "King's Chapel," an ante- Revolutionary relic. A tablet of bronze set in the iron gate of the fence surrounding the little burying ground indicates the authenticity of the interment mentioned. The history of Boston states that this Jacob Sheafe brought from Eng- land the first carriage introduced into the Massa- chusetts colony. The family name of the mother of the subject of this sketch was Cook, and this family at one time owned Bunker's Hill, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, where a battle of that name should have been fought, but his- toric facts determine, unfortunately for the ro- mantic associations in the connection, that the conflict actually took place at Breed's Hill, adja- cent thereto. Revolutionary history establishes the fact that Captain Enoch Cook, great-grandfa- ther of the subject of this sketch, participated in the first battle with the British at Concord, Mas- sachusetts, and that he had charge of the arms and munitions of war while the Continental troops made their famous march from that point to Lexington and Bunker Hill, in which battles he took part.

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History of South Dakota, Vol. I, Part 101

Author: Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946. cn Publication date: 1904 Publisher: [Logansport? IN] : B. F. Bowen Number of Pages: 998

Author: Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946. cn
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Logansport? IN] : B. F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 998