History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 10

Author: Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946. cn
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Logansport? IN] : B. F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1138

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value of this commodity that he met with great financial loss, being forced into bankruptcy. He then removed to Madison, Wisconsin, where he secured employment in the mills, continuing to be thus engaged until he had to a degree recouped his financial resources. He then removed to An- amosa, Iowa, where he erected mills, and in 1881 he located in Oakland, Nebraska, where he op- erated a mill about four years, and there he met his death as the result of an accident. He was preparing to clean a revolver, and in taking the same from a trunk the lid fell in such a way as to discharge the weapon, the shot causing his death within ten minutes. He was at the time prepar- ing to come to the Black Hills district of Dakota, to take charge of milling properties. He was a man of excellent business ability and sterling character, was a Republican in politics, a com- municant of the Protestant Episcopal church and a member of the Masonic fraternity. His widow, who was born in the state of New York, now resides in the home of her elder daughter, in Ef- fingham, Illinois, she likewise being a devoted communicant of the Episcopal church.

George D. Cord, the immediate subject of this sketch, was reared under the grateful influ- ences of a refined and cultured home, and secured his educational discipline in the public schools, completing his studies in the high school at Ana- mosa, Iowa. At the age of sixteen years he se- cured a position in a job-printing office in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, where he remained one year. · gaining an excellent knowledge of the "art pre- servative." He then entered the service of the Chicago. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Rail- road, in the capacity of station agent, remaining in the employ of this company for a period of about sixteen years, within which was located at various points on the line of the system, having been for thirteen years the agent at Coleridge, Nebraska. In 1899, at which time he was agent at Harrington, Nebraska, he resigned his position and forthwith came to South Dakota, locating in Delmont. Douglas county, the town having at the time a population of only eighty persons, and here he engaged in the real-estate business, bringing to bear in his operations the characteristic push 4-

and energy with which he is so eminently en- dowed. Mr. Cord has bought and sold much of the village property and also the major portion of the land for miles around, having been largely instrumental in bringing here a desirable class of settlers, who have developed rich and pro- ductive farms and have been signally prospered. It may be safely said that to him more than to any other one man is due this gratifying devel- opment of this section, while he has so ordered his course as to gain and retain the highest confi- dence and esteem of all. In January, 1903, he effected the organization of the Security State Bank, in which he owns the controlling stock, and he is president of this institution, which is ably conducted and which is accorded an appre- ciative support in the community. In politics he is a stalwart advocate of the principles and poli- cies of the Republican party, in whose cause he has been an active and valued worker, and during the campaign of 1902 he was a member of the state executive committee of his party, while at the time of this writing he is a member of the county executive committee. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church, and fraternally he is prominently identified with the Masonic order, being affiliated with Arcania Lodge, No. 97, Free and Accepted Masons, at Armour : Scotland Chapter. No. 31, Royal Arch Masons, at Scotland ; St. Bernard Commandery, No. II, Knights Templar, at Mitchell; Oriental Consist- ory, No. I, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, at Yankton, and El Riad Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Sioux Falls.

On the 20th of January, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cord to Miss Carrie F. Jones, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they have two sons, Charles B. and Arthur E.

CHARLES A. BROWN, M. D., who is suc- cessfully engaged in the practice of his profes- sion at Armour, Douglas county, was born on a farm in Tama county, Iowa, on the 22d of Janu- ary, 1868, and is a son of George and Sarah (Phillips) Brown, both of whom were born and

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reared in the state of Pennsylvania, where they were married. Soon afterward they removed to Iowa, locating in Iowa City, and later removing to Tama county, where Mr. Brown took up a homestead claim, to whose improvement and cultivation he continued to devote his attention until the early 'eighties, when he retired from active labor, taking up his residence in Waterloo, that state, where he now maintains his home. giving a general supervision to his landed and capitalistic interests. He is a Republican in politics but is a stanch advocate of the prohibition of the liquor traffic, which result he believes must be accomplished through the interposition of one of the dominating political parties. He and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist church.

Dr. Brown was reared on the homestead farm and after attending the district schools he entered the high school in Waterloo, where he was gradu- ated. While still a student in the high school he began teaching, having been thus engaged three winter terms, and he simultaneously prosecuted his medical studies, under the preceptorship of Dr. A. L. Martin, of Clinton, Iowa, under whose direction he later continued to prosecute his technical study during his college vacations. In the autumn of 1888 the subject was matriculated in the medical department of the Iowa State University, at Iowa City, where he was gradu- ated in the spring of 1891, receiving his coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine. For a few months after his graduation the Doctor was as- sociated in practice with Dr. William Woodburn, of Spencer, Iowa, and he then established him- self in practice at Lamont, that state, where he built up an excellent practice, remaining for a number of years. In January, 1898, he sold his practice in Spencer and came to Armour, South Dakota, and here he has gained prestige as one of the thoroughly skilled and discriminating members of his profession in the state. He is a stanch Republican in his political proclivities, and he is at the present time incumbent of the office of superintendent of the Douglas county board of health, according no nominal service but mak- ing it a point to insure the best possible sanitary conditions throughout his jurisdiction. He is a

member of Arcania Lodge, No. 91, Free and Accepted Masons; Armour Lodge, No. 25, Knights of Pythias, in whose affairs he takes a particularly active interest : Armour Camp, No. 2475, Modern Woodmen of America, and Ar- mour Tent, No. 18, Knights of the Maccabees. He is medical examiner for the two lodges last mentioned and also for several of the old-line in- surance companies having local representation.

On the 19th of August, 1893, Dr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Helen M. Stewart, of Lamont, Iowa, and they have four sons, George I .. , Charles E., Otho S. and Leland.

D. L. P. LAMB .- Judge Lamb is now serv- ing his third term as county judge in Charles Mix county, maintaining his residence in the town of Geddes, and merits consideration as one of the able members of the har of the state. He is a native of the Wolverine state, having been born in Hillsdale county, Michigan, on the 15th of June, 1852, and being a son of John and Vir- ginia (Newkirk) Lamb, of whose nine children all save one are still living. The father of the subject was born in Pennsylvania, where he was reared and educated, having grown up under the sturdy discipline of the farm. His parents came to the United States from Holland and located in the old Keystone state, where they passed the remainder of their lives. As a young man John Lamb removed to Ohio, settling near Lancaster, Fairfield county, where his marriage occurred, his wife having been a native of Westmoreland county, West Virginia, where her father was a wealthy manufacturer and slaveholder, while eventually she and several of her brothers became residents of Ohio. John Lamb was engaged in farming in Fairfield county, Ohio, until about 1850, when he removed to Michigan and settled in Hillsdale county, where he continued in agri- cultural pursuits, becoming one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of that county, in which he passed the residue of his life, his death occurring in 1881, at which time he was seventy- two years of age, while his devoted wife passed away in 1903, at the age of eighty-four years,

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both having been consistent members of the Ger- man Reformed church, while he was a Democrat in his political adherency.

Judge Lamb was reared on the homestead farm and his early educational advantages were such as were afforded in the public schools of his native county. In 1875 he came west to the western part of Nebraska, where he spent about a year on the ranch of his uncle, returning home in 1876, while he continued to devote his atten- tion to study as opportunity presented, having gained much through his well-directed applica- tion. In 1880 he came to Fort Randall, Dakota, where he secured employment in a trader's store and also secured contracts for supplying wood. In 1882 he came to Charles Mix county and en- tered timber and pre-emption claims, in Jack- son township, proving up on the same in due time, and in the spring of 1885 he located in the village of Wheeler, this county, where he was soon afterward appointed deputy sheriff, serving one year in this capacity, and at the expiration of that period, in July, 1886, he was appointed to the office of clerk of the district court by Judge Bartlett Tripp, retaining this incumbency until the admission of South Dakota to the Union, re- tiring from the office in November, 1890. In the meanwhile he had continued his study of the law. and was admitted to the bar of the territory in June, 1889, since which time he has been en- gaged in the practice of his profession to a greater or less extent. The winter after his re- tirement from the office of clerk Judge Lamb engaged in the abstract business, in partnership with Frank Adams, whose interest in the enter- prise he purchased in 1892, and he still conducts an abstract business in Wheeler. In 1894 he was elected to the office of state's attorney, on the Democratic ticket, serving two years, and in 1896 the financial policy of the Democracy failed to meet his approval and he transferred his alle- giance to the Republican party, being an active worker in the presidential campaign of that year. In 1896 he was the candidate of his party for the office of county judge and was elected by a gratifying majority, but in the election of 1898 he was defeated for the same office, while in 1900

he was again elected to the bench and was chosen as his own successor in 1902, being now on his third term and having proved a most impartial and fair-minded member of the judiciary of the state. After the town of Geddes was platted and its settlement was instituted, in 1900, Judge Lamb removed from Wheeler to the new and enterprising town, with whose phenomenal prog- ress and growth he has been thus identified from the start. He was appointed United States com- missioner in January, 1902, and is still incumbent of this office, being one of the most prominent and influential citizens of the county in which he has so long maintained his home and in whose welfare he has an abiding interest. While a resi- dent of Wheeler he served as postmaster during both administrations of President Cleveland, while for several years he has held the office of notary public. He and his wife are members of the Congregational church, and fraternally the Judge is identified with Geddes Lodge, No. 135. Free and Accepted Masons, and Mitchell Chap- ter, No. 16, Royal Arch Masons.

On the 6th of May, 1890, Judge Lamb was united in marriage to Miss Caroline McLain, of this county, and they are the parents of four children, Charles E., Fred. Daniel L. P., Jr., and Iril C.

HON. JOHN S. BEAN is a native of the old Granite state, having been born in Warner, Merrimac county, New Hampshire, on the 16th of February, 1839, a son of James and Marinda (Stewart ) Bean, and the old homestead in which he first saw the light of day was likewise the birthplace of his honored father, who there passed his entire life, which was devoted to agricultural pursuits. He lived to attain the venerable age of eighty-two years and traced his lineage back to one of two brothers. John and David Bean, who were born in Scotland, whence they went to England, from which "tight little isle" they emigrated to America in 1668, settling near his- toric old Plymouth, in the colony of Massachu- setts, whence their descendants later scattered through various parts of New England. The

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mother of the subject was likewise born in New Hampshire, whither her parental grandparents came from Ireland. She died at the age of thirty years, and of her three children the sub- ject is the only one living at the present time. James Bean became a member of the Know- nothing party at the time of its organization and later became a radical Republican, and while he never sought official preferment he was called upon to serve on the town board for many years and also held other offices of local trust.

John S. Bean was reared to the sturdy dis- cipline of the New England farm and his early educational training was secured in the com- mon schools, and supplemented by a two-years course in the New Hampton Academy. It was his desire to be graduated in this institution, but his financial resources reached so low an ebb that he was compelled to withdraw at the end of two years, and he then, at the age of nineteen, be- gan teaching in the schools of his native state, devoting his attention to the pedagogic profes- sion for three winters. In March, 1861, he left the ancestral home and set forth upon his in- dependent career, being dependent upon his own resources in facing the battle of life. He came west to Wisconsin, where he called upon his uncle. C. K. Stewart, whom he found confined to his bed with an illness which promised to be pro- tracted, and under these conditions he was pressed into service and took charge of his uncle's farm. The Civil war commenced in April of that year and the subject was most anxious to at once tender his services in defense of the Union, but he was not able to leave his uncle until the 22d of October. 1862, when he enlisted as a private in Company D, Sixteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, the regiment being assigned to the Army of the Tennessee. The regiment was in Prentice's di- vision at the memorable battle of Shiloh, and this division was captured by the enemy, our subject having escaped this fate by reason of the fact that he had been wounded on the morning of the same day and thus incapacitated for service. He was in the hospital at Savannah, Georgia, and Mount Vernon, Indiana, about three months,

after which he returned to Wisconsin and was detailed to recruiting service, being located in turn at Columbus, Beaver Dam and Madison. In February, 1863, Mr. Bean rejoined his regiment, at Lake Providence, Louisiana, but the effects of the wound in his arm were such that he could not handle a gun, and he was thus detailed as clerk of courts martial and the quartermaster's de- partment, serving in this capacity for three months, at the expiration of which the court was disbanded and he was then detailed to the quar- termaster's department alone. He was finally made chief clerk under the contriband bureau. After serving three months he went with his regiment to Vicksburg, but did not take part in the engagement there, and the winter was passed in Redbone, Mississippi, whence they returned to Vicksburg in the spring, Mr. Bean's company at this time reorganized and Mr. Bean was com- missioned as second lieutenant in a colored con- pany, with which he later took part in the ten- days siege before Blakely and the fourteen-days siege of Mobile. Still later the regiment em- barked on a transport for Selma, Alabama, and while enroute learned of Lee's surrender. The subject was thereafter on provost duty for sev- eral months, and the command was finally sent to Baton Rouge, where they received honorable discharge on the 4th of January. 1866. Before this he had been promoted to first lieutenant. Mr. Bean then visited his old home in New Hamp- shire, and shortly afterward went again to Wis- consin. . At the time of his discharge he was importuned to remain in the south as a member of a regiment which there continued in service two years after the close of the war, and though he was offered a commission as captain he did not deem it expedient to accept the overtures.

After his return to Wisconsin Mr. Bean en- gaged in farming, in Dodge county, becoming the owner of a good property, and there he re- mained until May. 1882, when he came to Douglas county, South Dakota, taking up a pre- emption claim four miles northeast of the present village of Armour, the county seat, where he con- tinued to devote his attention to the improvement and cultivation of his farm until the autumn of

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1890, when he took up his residence in Armour. In November of the same year he was elected a member of the state senate, serving one term, and in the fall election of 1892 he was chosen to represent his district in the lower house of the legislature, in which he likewise served one term. He then engaged in the real-estate and insurance business in Armour and later also became identified with the undertaking business here. having now retired from the two former enter- prises. He served one year as township treasurer and three years as township clerk, while his was the distinction of having been elected the first county clerk and register of deeds after the re- organization of the county. He was incumbent of the office of justice of the peace for several years and since 1895 he has held the office of weighmaster at Armour. At the present time he is a member of the board of county commis- sioners. His religious faith is that of the Free- will Baptist church, but as there is no organiza- tion of this denomination in Armour he attends the services of the Baptist church. He is a charter member of Arcania Lodge, No. 97, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was the first worshipful master, serving three years, and he is an honored member of O. P. Morton Post, No. 51. Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is now serving for the sixth consecutive year as cominander.

On the 26th of October. 1864, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bean to Miss Ellen C. East- man, of Warner, New Hampshire, who proved to him a devoted wife and helpmeet until she was summoned into eternal rest, on the 19th .of August. 1899. They became the parents of two children. Mabel died at the age of twenty-two years, and Jennie, the wife of George E. Sanders, of Armour, with whom the subject now makes his home.

HENRY C. TUCKER, of Geddes, editor and publisher of the Charles Mix County News, was born in New York, on the 30th of October, 1854, being a son of Samuel and Martha (Crumb) Tucker, of whose seven children four

are vet living. The father of the subject was born in Madison county, New York, whither his father removed from Massachusetts, while the father of the latter was a soldier under General Putnam in the war of the Revolution. In one of the battles in which he took part his hat was almost shot to pieces, and General Putnam pre- sented him with a new hat, recognizing the bravery which he had displayed in thus becom- ing a mark for so many hullets. Upon attain- ing manhood the father of our subject engaged in farming and hop growing in his native county, having planted the first field of hops in that sec- tion of the state, and in connection with this line of enterprise he became very successful, being one of the substantial farmers and honored citi- zens of Madison county at the time of his death. which occurred in 1888, at which time he was sixty years of age. His widow still survives him and resides on the old homestead farm. He was a Democrat in politics and ever took a deep in- terest in public affairs, though he never sought official preferment.

Henry C. Tucker was reared on the home- stead farm and early began to lend his aid in connection with its cultivation. After attending the public schools of the locality he continued his studies in the DeRuyter Institute and the New York Central Conference Seminary, an in- stitution conducted under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1875 he came to the west and located in Shelby county, Iowa, where he bought a tract of land and engaged in agricultural pursuits, while he also invested in a (litching machine, which he operated throughout that locality for several years, being one of the pioneers in the locality and finding his machine in much demand. In 1883 he disposed of his interests in Iowa and came to Charles Mix county. South Dakota, being numbered among the first settlers in the county. He filed on a claim in Jackson township, but after one year sold his relinquishment to the same, and in July, 1884, in company with Charles W. Pratt, he purchased the Charles Mix County News, a weekly paper, which was at that time published in the village of Darlington, its founding dating

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back only to the preceding November. In Oc- tober. 1884, they removed the plant to Edgerton and shortly afterward our subject purchased his partner's interest in the enterprise and thereafter continued the publication of the paper in Darlington until 1900, when he removed his plant to the new town of Geddes, his office build- ing having been the third building erected in the town and his paper the first to be published in the town. The office of the News is well equipped with modern machinery and other ac- cessories, the old hand presses originally utilized having been replaced by those of modern design, while the paper has an excellent circulation through the county. Mr. Tucker is one of the town's most enthusiastic and loyal citizens and is at the present time president of the village council, and while a resident of Edgerton he acted as postmaster of the place. He is a stanch Republican in his political adherency and has made his paper an effective exponent of the party cause. Fraternally, he is identified with Geddes Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Signal Camp, No. 444. Modern Woodmen of America, of which latter he is venerable consul.

Mr. Tucker was united in marriage to Miss Victoria Ashby, of Shelby county, Iowa, and they are the parents of four children, Maud, who is the wife of William Fowler, who is engaged in the lumber business in Geddes; Roy, who is in the office with his father; Bert, who remains at the parental home. and Ella, who is the wife of Charles Zink, of this county.

HORACE EUGENE THAYER, mayor of Canton, Lincoln county, was born at Blissfield, Lenawee county, Michigan, on the 28th of Feb- ruary, 1859, being a son of Andrew J. and Phoebe A. ( Hill) Thayer. His father is of the ninth generation of the family in America, being a lineal descendant of Thomas Thayer, who set- tled in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1630, as one of its original colonists, having come to the new world from Braintree, Essex county, England. Andrew J. Thayer was born in Cameron, Sten- ben county, New York, on the 12th of February,

1829, and his vocation in life has been that of farming. He is a veteran of the war of the Rebellion, having enlisted on the 27th of Febru- ary, 1863, as a member of Company K, Eleventh Michigan Volunteer Infantry, which was at- tached to the Second Brigade of the First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, and he served until the close of the war, when he re- ceived his honorable discharge. He is now a resident of Hampton, Iowa, and his cherished and devoted wife is also living. She was born on the 8th of April, 1839, at Petersburg, Lenawee county, Michigan, her parents having been num- bered among the earliest settlers of that county, whither they emigrated from Vermont, in the year 1830, nearly a decade before Michigan was admitted to statehood.

Horace E. Thayer received his early educa- tional training in the public schools of Allamakee county, Iowa, and when seventeen years of age he began teaching in that county, being thus successfully employed for eight terms. He then entered the telegraph office of the Iowa Central Railroad at Mason City, Iowa, in 1883, and there he devoted a period of six months to learning the art of telegraphy. In August of that year his marriage was solemnized, and immediately there- after he removed to Mason City, Iowa, where he was given the position of night operator in the station of the Iowa Central Railroad, retain- ing this incumbency until the autumn of the fol- lowing year, when he received promotion from the hands of the company, being made rail- way billing clerk at Hampton, Iowa. This office he filled until the autumn of 1886, when he resigned from the employ of the Iowa Central Company and returned to Mason City, where for six months he held the position of night agent in the general offices of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, being then pro- moted to the position of billing agent and two weeks later to that of cashier, in tenure of which responsible office he there continued for the en- suing five years, at the expiration of which, in 1891, he received the promotion, over several older employes, to the position of agent for the company at Canton, South Dakota, where he en-

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History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 10

Author: Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946. cn Publication date: 1904 Publisher: [Logansport? IN] : B. F. Bowen Number of Pages: 1138

Author: Robinson, Doane, 1856-1946. cn
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Logansport? IN] : B. F. Bowen
Number of Pages: 1138