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In Kasota, Minnesota, on the 22d of De-
cember, 1899. Mr. Waddell was united in mar- riage to Miss Mittie Whitford, who was born and reared in Minnesota, and they have two chil- dren, Hazel J. and Willard W.
EDWARD C. ADAMS, M. D., of Water- town, is a native of the state of New Jersey and comes of distinguished ancestry, the name which he bears having long been prominently identified with the history of the nation, while the two Pres- idents of the name were of the same family line. He was born in the town of Hudson, New Jer- sey, on the 20th of May, 1855, being a son of Rev. Edward W. and Mary P. (Purdy) Adams. his father being a widely known clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church and a descend- ant of the famous Massachusetts family of the name. His death occurred at Aurora, Illinois, as the result of an accident, in February, 1904, at the age of seventy-four years, while the Doc- tor's mother died in 1902 at Maywood, a suburb of Chicago. Rev. Edward Adams came to Da- kota in 1885 and devoted two years to establish- ing the Methodist Episcopal church throughout South Dakota. When the subject was a child his parents removed to Illinois, and the Doctor secured his early educational training in the pub- lic schools of that state, later attended a sem- inary in Plainfield, that state, and after a pre- paratory course at Evanston, he entered the cel- ebrated Northwestern University, in that beau- tiful suburb of Chicago, and there completed the classical course, being graduated as a member of the class of 1879 and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1882 the degree of Mas- ter of Arts was bestowed. He then passed two years as a student in Jefferson Medical College, graduating in 1881. He then devoted two years to hospital work, which proved of inestimable value to him, and was engaged in private practice for one year, when he took a course in Hahne- mann Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in 1886. Soon afterward he came to South Da- kota and located in Watertown, where he has ever since maintained his home and where he has built up a very large and distinctively rep-
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resentative practice, the while gaining high pres- tige in. professional circles in the state. The Doc- tor is essentially loyal and public-spirited as a citizen and shows a lively interest in all that makes for the advancement and well-being of the city and state of his adoption, while he has served in various city and county offices and was for nine years a member of the state militia. He is a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and is identified with various professional so- cieties and fraternal organizations. He is a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal church, while Mrs. Adams is active in the Episcopalian church.
In Watertown, on the 20th of September, 1892, Dr. Adams was united in marriage to Miss Marion Flint, who was born in Iowa, being a daughter of Mortimer D. and Ella Flint. To Dr. and Mrs. Adams were born two children, Violet Marion, who died January 9, 1900, at the age of eighteen months, and Edward M., who was born on the 16th of August, 1899.
JOHN CARLYLE SOUTHWICK is one of the representative business men of Water- town, where for fifteen years he has been en- gaged in the abstract business, being the owner of a complete set of abstracts of title for Cod- ington county, compiled by him personally, under a system of his origination, the excellence of which is attested by the fact that it has been adopted by many abstracters in the Northwest. Mr. Southwick is a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this section of the state, and is a native of the city of Wauke- gan, Lake county, Illinois, where he was born on the 28th of June, 1866, being a son of John C. and Helen M. (Gates) Southwick, both of whom were born and reared in Chautauqua county, New York, whence they removed to Illinois about the year 1852. There the father engaged in general mercantile business and in 1878 removed to Dakota territory and took up a tract of government land in Kingsbury county, where he became one of the prominent and in- fluential citizens of this section, having taken
up his residence at Arlington in 1880, and hav- ing been engaged in the real-estate and loan business there until his death, which occurred on the 4th of July, 1901.
He represented Kingsbury county in the ter- ritorial legislature in 1885, and was an active factor in public affairs during his residence here, having been a staunch Republican in politics. The death of Helen M. Southwick occurred June 6, 1888, at Waukegan, Illinois, where she was visiting her former home.
The subject of this sketch secured his early education in the public schools of his native city, having been graduated in the Waukegan high school in 1883, on the seventeenth anniversary of his birth. In the following August he joined his parents in what is now South Dakota, and in the next few years familiarized himself with the business of abstracting titles to real estate, having been employed in the office of the register of deeds of Kingsbury county, and later by the Kingsbury County Abstract Company. In De- cember. 1889, he located in Watertown, and be- gan the compilation of a complete set of ab- stracts from the records of Codington county, and in 1893 was elected register of deeds for the county, serving two years in this capacity, and afterward being called upon to serve in other municipal and county offices. He takes a prominent part in public affairs of a local na- ture, being a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities. He has continued in the abstract business and his records are in constant and popular use, the same being admirably system- atized.
Mr. Southwick is one of the most prominent members of the Knights of Pythias in the state, being affiliated with Trishocotyn Lodge, No. 17, in Watertown, in which he passed the various official chairs, attaining the honor of past chan- cellor on the 6th of July, 1893. In 1894 he represented his lodge in the grand lodge of the state, and has since attended every session of the grand lodge. In 1895 he was elected grand prelate of this body, and in 1897 was chosen grand tribune, while in the following year he was elected chief tribune of the grand tribune
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of the order, retaining this office until the meet- ing of the grand lodge .in 1899, when he re- signed to accept the position of grand keeper of records and seal, in which capacity he served the order until 1903, when he was elected grand chancellor. He is also a leading member and officer of Watertown Lodge No. 838, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Southwick has been successful in his business affairs and is one of the popular young men of his city and county. He is the owner of a con- siderable amount of city property, including the two-story brick block on the corner of Coding- ton avenue and Oak street, where his offices are located.
HON. JOHN F. SOPHY, one of the lead- ing business men and popular citizens of the thriving city of Garretson, is a native of Ontario, Canada, born December 13, 1846, near the town of Prescott. His early life on his father's farm was devoid of any particular interest, having been spent after the usual manner of country lads, working in the fields in the summer time and of winter seasons attending the public schools. When about eight years old he was taken by his parents to Clinton county, Iowa, where the family settled in the fall of 1854, and from that time until 1869 he devoted his atten- tion to agriculture and grew to manhood well qualified to cope with the varied problems which the future might present. Subsequently, in the fall of 1871, he took up a homestead in Plymouth county, Iowa, and, addressing himself to the task of improvement, soon had a goodly portion of the land under cultivation and well stocked with cattle. Mr. Sophy continued to live in Plymouth and Woodbury counties until 1889, at which time he disposed of his interest in the above state and came to Garretson, South Da-
kota, where he found a favorable opening for a lumber and coal yard. After devoting his at- tention for one year to these lines of business, he added grain and live stock and in due time built up a large and lucrative patronage, sup- plying the local market with lumber and coal, and shipping vast quantities of grain and a great many cattle to various eastern points. Later he disposed of his lumber and coal interests and since 1896 has given his attention exclusively to the handling of grain and live stock, in the buying and selling of which he has a large and far-reaching business. In addition to his regu- lar business in Garretson Mr. Sophy owns and personally manages a valuable farm of two hundred and eighty acres a short distance from the town, in which he pastures many fine cattle and from which he derives no small part of his income. In many respects, he is a typical west- ern man, in that he is energetic, wide-awake and fully abreast the times, taking broad views of men and things, and manifesting a lively con- cern in whatever makes for the material pros- perity of his city, county and state. In 1899 he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the state legislature, where he achieved honorable distinction as a lawmaker, and he has also served several terms as mayor of Garretson, dur- ing which he administered the municipal govern- ment in a straightforward, business-like manner that won the confidence of the people of all parties and shades of political opinion. His per- sonal relations are of the most pleasant and agreeable character, he being sociable and com- panionable to an eminent degree, and few men in the city of his residence enjoy to as marked degree the esteem and confidence of the com- munity.
Miss Anna O. Meara, who, on November 24, 1869, became the wife of Mr. Sophy, was born August 17, 1851 : she has presented him with two sons, whose names are John F. and Myron J.
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