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the republic. After the close of his military service he returned to Illinois, where he was engaged in the work of his trade for a few years and then established himself in the shoe busi- ness at Rockford, while later he became a travel- ing salesman for one of the leading wholesale shoe houses in the city of Utica, New York, being thus engaged until 1880, when he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and cast in his lot with the people of Mitchell, which was then a small and straggling village. Here he was for a number of years engaged in the United States land office, while he became one of the representative citizens and business men of the place. In 1883 he was appointed postmaster of the city, in which capacity he served two and a half years, having been removed by President Cleveland to make place for a Democrat. He is at the time of this writing holding the office of mayor of the city, giving a most capable and satisfactory administration of the municipal government and doing all in his power to forward the best interests of the city by a straightforward and progressive business and executive policy. In 1899 he was appointed national bank examiner for the state, in which capacity he has since continued to render most efficient service. In politics he has ever been an uncompromising advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party and has been one of its wheel-horses in the state. He is one of the leading members of the Grand Army of the Republic in South Dakota, being identified with Ransom Post, No. 6, at Mitchell, while in 1889-90 he had the distinction of being com- mander of the Grand Army for the department of Dakota territory, having been incumbent of the office at the time the territory was divided and the two states admitted to the Union. He early hecame identified with the National Guard of the state, and from 1891 to 1895 served as adjutant general of the same. He is also affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Pro- tcctive Order of Elks.
On the 25th of February, 1868, was cele- brated the marriage of Mr. Silsby to Miss Emily
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Derwent, who was born in Rockford, Illinois, on the Ist of October, 1847, being a daughter of Edmond Derwent, a prominent citizen of that place, where she was reared and educated. Mr. and Mrs. Silsby have two children, Mabel Claire, who is now the wife of Herbert E. Hitchcock, and Maude Muller, who is the wife of Harry G. Nichols.
W. E. TIPTON, of Armour, Douglas county, is a native of the state of Missouri, hav- ing been born in Schuyler county, on the Ioth of June, 1854, a son of Jabez B. and Isabel (Wright) Tipton. The ancestry in the agnatic line is traced back to two brothers who emi- grated from England to America and landed in either Baltimore or Philadelphia, while finally one of them located in Virginia and the other in the state of New York, and the Virginian later came west and took up his permanent residence in Kentucky, and it is from this pioneer of that state that the subject of this sketch is descended. Joel Tipton, grandfather of the subject, was one of the colony which accompanied Daniel Boone from Kentucky to Missouri, and for a number of years he was an associate of that historic char- acter, being a close personal friend. Jabez B. Tipton passed his entire life in Missouri, his vo- cation being that of farming. His wife, the mother of the subject, was an Illinoisan by birth.
WV. E. Tipton was reared on the homestead farm in Missouri and after availing himself of the advantages afforded in the public schools he continued his studies in the state normal school, at Kirksville. At the age of nineteen years he began teaching in the public schools, and by this means he earned the money with which he was enabled to carry forward his studies in the nor- mal school, where he was graduated in 1880, with the highest honors in his class, and after- ward taking the post-graduate course, with the degree of Master of Arts. He served as su- perintendent of schools at Queen City, Glenwood, Lathrop and Lamar, Missouri, and while in ten- ure of the position in Lamar he also served as
superintendent of schools of Barton county. At that time also he began the study of law with the definite intention of preparing himself for the practice of this profession, having previously carried on his studies along the line, but in a somewhat desultory way. While at Lamar he was elected a member of the faculty of the state normal school at Warrensburg, but the school board refused to accept his resignation, and such was the estimate of his value and ability as an instructor that the position as a member of the faculty of the normal school was held open for him for a period of two years. Within this time, however, Mr. Tipton had decided to withdraw from the pedagogic profession and devote his at- tention to that of the law, and in consonance with this decision he resigned the position at the normal without having actually filled it at any time. His duties in Lamar had been so varied and onerous that his health became seriously impaired, and this is not to be considered strange when we take cognizance of the fact that not only was he superintendent of the city and county schools, but was also associate editor of the State Teachers' Journal, editor of the edu- cational department of a local paper, interested in the real-estate business, and the while care- fully continuing his legal studies. He was thus compelled to call a halt and endeavor to recuper- ate his wasted energies. In 1883 he resigned his position as county superintendent of schools and came to South Dakota for the benefit of his health, locating in Douglas county. He had been admitted to the bar of Missouri the pre- ceding year, and after his removal to South Dakota he opened an office in Grand View, which was then the county seat of Douglas county, and there continued to be successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until the town of Armour was projected. He then became one of the founders and builders of the new town, in which he was one of the early settlers, and here he has ever since maintained his home, having contributed materially to the advancement of its best interests and being one of its most honored and valued citizens, while he has gained a state reputation as one of the leading members of its
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bar, his talent and devotion to his profession having gained him distinctive prestige, while his clientage is of representative order. He is a stanch Republican in his political views, and he was appointed district attorney in 1884, serving two years, while he was elected to the office in 1886, for a term of two years. He also served one term as state's attorney of Douglas county, while for two terms he presided with marked ability on the bench of the county court. Judge Tipton was president of the board of education of Armour for several years, and for five years was a member of the board of regents of the State University, having ever retained a lively in- terest in the cause of popular education. In 1901 he was appointed president of the state board of charities and corrections, serving two years, and recently the board was reorganized and our subject was chosen secretary, this executive posi- tion being one for which he is particularly well qualified, and he resigned the presidency because he felt that as secretary he could make his services of more definite value.
In politics Judge Tipton is a stalwart advo- cate of the principles and policies of the Re- publican party, and he is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with the various bodies of the York Rite and having also attained the consistory degrees in the Scot- tish Rite. He also holds membership in the ad- junct order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and in the Knights of Pythias, in which he is now supreme representative, having held the highest offices in the lodge for the past eight years. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and take a zealous interest in the various departments of its work.
On the 29th of December, 1881, Judge Tip- ton was united in marriage to Miss Myra Amsden, of Greene county, Iowa, who died in 1890, being survived by her only child, Gerald P., who is now in business in Quincy, Illinois. On the Ioth of October, 1894. Judge Tipton contracted a second marriage, being then united to Miss Emily Rogers, of Mitchell, South Da- kota, and they are the parents of four children, Bernice, Mark R., Sterling J. and Gwyneth.
REV. JOHN J. REILAND .- The priest- hood of the great mother church has an able and earnest young representative in the person of Father Reiland, who is installed in charge of the congregation of Sacred Heart church, in Parks- ton, Hutchinson county, the parish organization having been effected in 1891, while through the zealous efforts of the pastor and people the fine new church building will have been completed by the time this history is issued from the press.
Father Reiland is a native of Luxemberg, Europe, where he was born on the 9th of May, 1868, being a son of John and Ann Mary ( Bartholome) Reiland, who bade adieu to home and native land in 1869 and emigrated to the United States, locating in Wabasha county, Min- nesota, as pioneers of that section, where they still maintain their home. The subject of this tribute has thus passed practically his entire life in America, having been about one year of age at the time of his parents' removal to the new world. After receiving his rudimentary edu- cational discipline in the parochial schools he passed six years in St. Francis Seminary, at St. Francis, Wisconsin, after which, in pursuance of his definite plans of preparing himself for the priesthood of the church, he went to the city of Rome, where for four years he was a student in the Propaganda College, being ordained to the priesthood, at the Gregorian University, on the 28th of October, 1891. After his return to America he came to South Dakota and was pas- tor at White Lake for one and one-half years, then being in charge of the parish of Sacred Heart church at Aberdeen for the ensuing four years, at the expiration of which he came to Parkston, as pastor of the parish of Sacred Heart church, over which he has remained in charge for the past six years, infusing zeal and devotion into the spiritual and temporal affairs of the church, gaining the affection and co- operation of his people and the respect and con- fidence of all who know him, and showing in ail the relations of life his earnest consecration to his holy calling. Father Reiland may well look with satisfaction on the work he has here ac- complished, and the new and attractive church
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edifice will stand as a monument to his earnest labors and indefatigable energy and his devo- tion to the service of the divine Master. In con- nection with the church there is a parochial school in charge of the Sisters of St. Joseph (Concordia, Kansas), with an attendance of one hundred and twenty children.
JOHN A. BURBANK, fourth territorial gov- ernor of Dakota, born in Centerville, Wayne county, Indiana, in 1827. Was appointed gov- ernor to succeed Andrew J. Faulk by President Grant. At the close of his term returned to In- diana and still resides at New Richmond, that state.
JOHN S. MUELLER, one of the prominent and essentially representative young business men of Parkston, Hutchinson county, was born in the southern part of Russia, on the 24th of March, 1870, being a son of Johann and Wil- helmina (Hass) Mueller, who emigrated from the fatherland to America in May, 1881, landing in New York city and thence coming to what is now the state of South Dakota, where the father entered homestead and pre-emption claims nine miles southeast of Parkston, becoming one of the pioneers of the county and here continu- ing to reside until his death, on the Ist of Sep- tember. 1898, at which time he was sixty-six years of age. He was a Republican in politics, a member of the Lutheran church and a man of inflexible integrity in all the relations of life. His widow has now attained the age of seventy years and still resides on the homestead farm, while she likewise is a devoted member of the Lutheran church.
The subject of this review was about eleven years of age at the time of his parents' emi- gration to America, his early educational in- struction having thus been secured in the fatherland, while after locating in South Dakota he was enabled to attend the public schools and also the academy at Scotland. In 1890 he se- cured employment as salesman for a dealer in
agricultural implements, in Scotland, being thus employed during one summer, while during the following winter he was engaged in teaching, as was he also for two winters succeeding, while during the intervening summers he found em- ployment as assessor and also in various mer- cantile establishments, in a clerical capacity. In January, 1893, he was appointed deputy county treasurer of Hutchinson county, continuing to retain this preferment about four years. In the autumn of 1896 he was elected auditor of the county, and this incumbency he retained two terms, giving a most able and satisfactory ad- ministration, while during his last year of service he was also engaged in the real-estate and loan business. In March, 1901, at the expiration of his second term, Mr. Mueller came to Parkston and purchased stock in the Hutchinson County Bank, of which he was made assistant cashier, the agreement made in the connection being that he might withdraw at any time within the year should he so desire. He was unable to secure as much stock in the institution as he wished and also found the sedentary occupation somewhat irksome, and thus, at the end of six months, he resigned his executive position and purchased the interest of Christian Rempfer in the implement business of the firm of Rempfer & Doering, the enterprise being then extended in scope, and carried forward under the title of the Parkston Land and Implement Company. On the 11th of April, 1903, the company was incorporated under the laws of the state, with Mr. Mueller as secre- tary and treasurer, and ere this work is issued from the press the company will have completed their modern brick block, in which they will carry a full line of hardware, in connection with their land and implement business. Mr. Mueller is also a stockholder in the South Dakota Grain Company, one of the leading concerns of the sort in this section of the state, and he is known as a man of progressive ideas, high administrative and executive ability and sterling integrity of purpose. He is a stalwart advocate of the prin- ciples of the Republican party, and both he and his wife are prominent and valued members of the Lutheran church, he being an elder in the
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local organization and treasurer of the three con- gregations constituting this parish.
On the 22d of January, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mueller to Miss Elizabeth C. Gall, of Menno, this state, and they are the parents of six children, Edmund J., Leontina C., Amalia A., Reinhart R. G., Berthold E. L. and Laura L. L.
JOHN DOERING, a representative and progressive business man of Parkston, Hutchin- son county, was born in the southern part of Russia, which great empire has contributed a not inconsiderable quota to the valued population of South Dakota, the date of his nativity having been February 2, 1868, while he is a son of Gottlieb and Juliana (Lempke) Doering, who emigrated to America when he was about twelve years of age, coming to South Dakota and pass- ing one year in Menno, Hutchinson county, after which they removed to a farm seven miles south- east of Parkston, where they have since main- tained their home, being numbered among the worthy pioneers of this section of the state.
The subject of this sketch received excellent educational advantages in his native country, but was able to attend school only three months after the removal of the family to the United States, for institutions of learning, even of the primitive sort, were notable more specially for their absence in the pioneer districts of South Dakota at the time when the family located here. On June 7. 1892, Mr. Doering was married to Miss Louisa Eberhard, of this county, and shortly afterward he came to Parkston, where he erected and equipped a grist mill, operating the same for two years, at the expiration of which he disposed of the property and engaged in the grain business as a buyer for others, thus con- tinning about three years. In 1897 he turned his attention to dealing in agricultural implements and machinery and the same year, in company with two others, purchased two elevators in Parkston, operating one under the firm name of Doering & Company and the other under the title of Rempfer. Kayser & Company. Subse-
quently the interested principals effected the or- ganization of the South Dakota Grain Company and purchased nine other elevators, at different points, and these nine elevators are conducted by the company mentioned, while the original two in Parkston are still maintained under the control of the firms previously noted, while the subject of this sketch has held the responsible office of general manager of the South Dakota Grain Company from the time of its organiza- tion, the concern being among the heaviest buy- ers and shippers of grain in the state, while the responsibilities devolving upon Mr. Doering in- dicate that he is a man of excellent executive ability. Mr. Doering and John Kayser are now the sole owners of the nine elevators outside, and Mr. Doering holds stock in the Parkston Lanď and Implement Company, of which he is vice- president, and he is also manager of the South Dakota Grain Company. He is candid and honorable in all his transactions and retains the unequivocal confidence and esteem of all who know him, while he is recognized as one of the substantial men and representative citizens of the county. He is the owner of two hundred and eighty acres of valuable farming land in Hutch- inson county and has reason to be gratified with the success which he has attained through his energetic and progressive efforts. In politics he holds the faith of the Republican party, being a member of the common council of his home city at the time of this writing, and both he and his wife are zealous members of the Lutheran church.
MAZAR JANDREAU comes of stanch French lineage and was born in Canada on the 4th of July, 1853, being a son of Ferdinand and Estracia (Igout) Jandreau, whose five children are all living. When the subject was two years of age his parents came from Canada to the northwest, settling in Sioux City, Iowa, which was then a small village, and there continued to reside for five years. They then removed into Nebraska, which state continued to be their home for forty years and up to the time of their
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death, while they were numbered among the sterling pioneers of that commonwealth, where the father devoted his attention to farming and stock raising. Our subject secured his early educational discipline in the schools of Nebraska and while still a boy set forth to carve out an in- dependent carecr. In 1871 he came to the ter- ritory of Dakota and secured a position as stage- driver on the route between Fort Randall and Fort Thompson, being thus employed for a period of three years. In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Louise Redfield, a quarter- blooded Indian of the Yankton Sioux extraction, her father having been one of the early Indian agents in the government employ in Dakota. After his death his widow became the wife of Lizzim Archambean, of whom specific mention is made on another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Jandreau became the parents of twelve children, of whom seven are living. The subject and his family jointly own five hundred and eight acres of land, the major portion of which is used for grazing purposes. Mr. Jandreau is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and he and his family are members of the Catholic church.
Mr. Jandreau has traveled extensively through the west, both in the early days and in later years. At the age of twelve years he left his father's home in Nebraska and made the trip across the plains and mountains to Denver, Colorado, having driven a freight team from Nebraska City to Denver, in 1866, while there- after he followed freighting along the Missouri river for a number of years, having been fre- quently attacked by the Indians.
DAVID M. POWELL had the distinction of being a representative of Davison county in the first state legislature of South Dakota and is also a member of this body at the time of this writing, while he is known as one of the pro- gressive and successful farmers and stock grow- ers of said county, where he has maintained his home since 1883, thus being one of the pioneers of this section. He served long and faithfully in
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is still active in church work, though not exercising his clerical functions in a specific way.
Mr. Powell was born in Roxbury, Delaware county, New York, on the 13th of April, 1836, and is a son of Reuben and Catherine (Gould) Powell, the former of whom was born in the state of New York, to which the family had removed from Connecticut a few months pre- viously, and the latter was a native of Connecti- cut, both families being of Welsh and English extraction and both having been established in New England in the colonial epoch of our na- tional history. The mother of our subject died when he was but nine months of age, and his father subsequently consummated a second mar- riage, passing his entire life in the old Empire state, where he followed the vocation of farming. David M. was reared on the home farm and secured his early educational discipline in the common schools of his native town, while later he continued his studies in an academy at Harp- ersfield, Delaware county, New York, and sup- plemented this by a course in an academy at Roxbury, that state. Thereafter he taught for two years in the schools of Halcott, Greene county, and three years at Stone Ridge, Ulster county, New York. In April, 1859, after due preliminary preparation, he was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and thereafter continued uninterruptedly in minis- terial labors until the spring of 1883, when he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and purchased three hundred and twenty acres of deeded land, in Davison county, where he has ever since maintained his home. He has made the best of permanent improvements on his farm and has been successful in his operations as an agriculturist and stock grower, notwithstanding the serious obstacles which he was compelled to encounter in connection with the transformation of virgin prairies to a condition of fruitfulness in the production of crops for the support of man and beast. He may well look with naught of re- gret on the toils and privations of the pioneer days, in view of the success which has come to him individually and the magnificent civilization
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which has been established in the great domain of the sovereign commonwealth of which he was an early settler. Mr. Powell became a subscriber to Horace Greeley's Tribune in 1854, and was not a voter at the time of the inception of the Republican party, being thus unable to exercise his franchise in support of its first presidential candidate, General John C. Fremont, but he voted for Lincoln in 1860 and has ever since been stanchly arrayed in support of the "grand old party," for whose every succeeding presi- dential candidate he has voted. In the autumn of 1888 he was elected a member of the last ter- ritorial legislature of the territory of Da- kota, and in the ensuing general assembly did effective service in the framing of wise legisla- tion for the new commonwealth, while he was again elected to represent his district in the first state legislature, in the election of November, 1889, thus being a member of the first state gen- eral assembly. His interest in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church continues to be of fervent and practical order, and his services are in demand not infrequently as a clergyman, his membership in the church dating back to the time when he was but sixteen years of age.
On the 4th of February, 1864, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Powell to Miss Ada Elvira Sherwood, who was born in Liberty, Sullivan county, New York, on the 4th of February, 1838, so that the marriage was celebrated on her birth- day anniversary. The result of this marriage was one son, Arthur S., who was born January 12. 1865, but who was summoned into eternal life November 2, 1886. Mrs. Ada Powell died September 6, 1870, and on the 24th of October, 1871, Mr. Powell married Adaline Annette Sher- wood, a sister of his first wife, and to this union also was born a son, Jason Gould, the date of his nativity being November 24. 1873. He is en- gaged in farming and resides in Sanborn county, South Dakota. Mrs. Adaline Powell died Janu- ary 28, 1877. of quick consumption, and on May 4. 1878. the subject was married to Adelia Davidson, of Rockland, Sullivan county, New York, and to them was born a daughter, Elvira. Mrs. Adelia Powell was stricken with peritonitis
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