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Mr. Jones was admitted to the bar of the state
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of Illinois, after careful preliminary study, and he was for a short time engaged in practice in Wichita, Kansas, coming to the present state of South Dakota, arriving at his present home town of Parker, on the 19th of September. 1883, and having ever since been actively and successfully established in the practice of his profession here. He has served several terms as state's attorney of Turner county, and in 1896 was the Republican candidate for attorney general of the state, but met the defeat which attended the party ticket in general in the state election of that year. He has ever been an uncompromising and ardent advo- cate of the principles and policies for which the "grand old party" stands sponsor and has been an active worker in its cause. He has been for many years identified with the Masonic frater- nity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while his two elder sons are likewise Freemasons, his wife a member of the Woman's Relief Corps and the Daughters of Rebekah, and his daughter is affiliated with the Royal Neighbors. Mrs. Jones is a communicant of the Methodist Episco- pal church, and all the other members of the family incline toward the faith of the same.
On the 22d of January, 1883. Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Jennie R. Boys, who was born in Stroudsburg. Pennsylvania, being a daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Andre) Boys, who removed to central Illinois when she was young, her educational training having been se- cured in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Illinois, including a course in the high school at Lacon, latter state, and in Quincy College, Illi- nois. Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Tones we incorporate the following brief record : Claude L. was graduated in the Parker high school and the Iowa College of Law. at Des Moines. In October, 1897. he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of South Dakota and in May, 1899. to that of Iowa. Since June 1, 1800. he has been associated with his father in practice, under the firm name of Jones & Jones. In November, 1902, he was elected state's attor- ney of Turner county, just sixteen years after his father's first election to that office, and had the distinction of receiving the largest majority ever
given any candidate in the county. Ethel, the only daughter of the subject, is a graduate of the Parker high school and the Northwestern Univer- sity, at Evanston, Illinois. Carl R. is a graduate of the home high school and the Iowa College of Law, having been admitted to the bar in 1902, and is now engaged in the practice of his profes- sion. Ira A. was graduated in the Parker high school as a member of the class of 1904.
GEORGE W. MILLER, formerly represent- ative of the thirty-third district in the state sen- ate, and one of the honored pioneers and influen- tial citizens of Brown county, is a native of the Wolverine state, having been born on a farm in Montcalm county, Michigan, on the Ioth of Feb- ruary, 1852, and being a son of Lester R. and Louisa (Kent) Miller, both of whom were born in the state of New York, while both were scions of stanch old colonial stock, the Millers tracing back to William Miller, who settled at Northamp- ton, Massachusetts, in 1654. Isaac D. Miller, the grandfather of the subject, was one of the pio- neers of Michigan, having there taken up his resi- dence when it was still a territory. In 1830 he removed with his family from New York to Michigan and took up his residence in the city of Detroit. Five years later he removed to Oak- land county, there giving his attention principally to farming, and having reclaimed his land from the virgin forests. He sold out in 1853 and moved to Montcalm county, where he lived until his death. The father of the subject was born on the 27th of August, 1827, and was thus a mere child at the time of the family removal to Michi- gan, where he was reared to maturity, being one of ten children. At the age of twenty years he inaugurated his independent career, and in 1850 located in Montcalm county, where he passed the residue of his life, having been one of the prom- inent farmers and influential citizens of that sec- tion of the Peninsular state and having ever held the implicit confidence and esteem of all who knew him until death, which occurred June IO, 1001. His devoted wife also died in that county in October, 1857. By this union there were two
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children, George W. and Della. Mr. Miller was again married to Sarah L. Cole, to whom three children were given, John C., Agnes S. and Mabel, who died in infancy.
George W. Miller was reared to the sturdy age to visit a sister and eventually took up the and invigorating discipline of the farm upon which he was born, and completed his specific educational training in the excellent public schools of the city of Greenville, of his native county. He continued to assist in the manage- ment of the home farm until 1873, when he en- gaged in the same line of enterprise on his own responsibility, continuing his residence in Mont- calm county until August, 1882, when he came to South Dakota and took up homestead, pre- emption and tree claims in Claremont township, Brown county, a portion of the village of Clare- mont being located on his pre-emption. He still retains this valuable property, to which he has added from time to time, and, as before stated. he is now the owner of a finely improved farm of seven hundred and twenty acres. He gives his attention to diversified agriculture and to the rais- ing of live stock, making a specialty of sheep growing, usually having an average of eight hundred head, while he also raises high-grade cattle and horses, and has for some time con- ducted a profitable dairying business. In poli- tics Mr. Miller gives his allegiance to the Re- publican party, and he has served in various of- fices of local trust, while in 1889 he was elected to represent his district in the state senate, in which body he made an excellent record, doing all in his power to promote wise and effective leg- islation and to stand sponsor for his constitu- ency.
On the 21st of December, 1875, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Barnes, who was born in Short Tract, New York, being a daughter of Charles and Dr. Cordelia ( Dib- ben) Barnes, both of whom were born in Dor- setshire, England. At the age of fifteen Mr. Barnes determined to seek his fortune in Amer- ica, and took passage in a sailing vessel, and was three months in crossing the Atlantic. He re- sided in the state of New York until 1856 and then removed to Montcalm county, Michigan,
where he died in November, 1892. Mrs. Barnes was born December 12, 1831, in Dcanlane, Dor- setshire, and was the youngest of ten children. She came to America when but fifteen years of study of medicine and was admitted to prac- tice, being one of the pioneer women physicians of the Union and thus encountering the opposi- tion and criticism which marked the advent of her sex into the new domain, but she was a wom- an of superior ability, courage and determin- ation, and eventually won high recognition, hav- ing been successfully engaged in the practice of her profession in Montcalm county for thirty years. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have one son. M. Hugh, who was born on the 27th of September, 1880, in Montcalm county, Michigan, and who is now engaged in farming in Brown county. He completed his education in the State Agri- cultural College, at Brocking-, and is one of the popular young men of Brown county. Novem- ber 25, 1903, he was united in marriage to Miss Mand J. Weaver, who was born in Michigan, and came to South Dakota in 1885, where she has since lived, being a daughter of John R. Weaver, one of the prominent farmers and mer- chants of Brown county.
JOHN H. BROOKS, the popular and ca- pable proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Britton, Marshall county, comes of stanchi old Quaker stock, the original American ancestors, in both the paternal and maternal lines, having first settled in Vermont, while later they removed to Pennsylvania, where the respective families have resided for several generations. The sub- ject was born in York county, Pennsylvania, on the IIth of June, 1852, and was reared to man- hood in the famous old Keystone state of the I'nion. His father, John Brooks, was born in that state, on the Ist of January, 1812, and there both he and his wife, whose maiden name was Eliza Harry, passed their entire lives, being per- sons of sterling character and ever commanding uniform respect and esteem. They became the parents of five children, of whom three are living.
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the subject of this review being the youngest. Mr. Brooks received his educational training in York. the capital of his native county, where he attended the public schools until he had attained the age of eighteen years. In 1870 he went to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, where he learned the machine-moulder's trade, continuing liis residence in the "Monument City" until 1875, when he removed to Ogle county, Illinois, where he remained for three years, engaged in farm- ing and also teaching school for a time. He thence went to Wichita, Kansas, where he was engaged in the buying and selling of cattle about three years, making trips to Texas and other points for the purpose of securing stock for ship- ment. In 1881 he went to Pierce City, Missouri, where he remained until the spring of 1883. when he came to the present state of South Da- kota and numbered himself among the pioneers of Marshail county. In May of that year he filed entry on a pre-emption claim in the imme- diate vicinity of the present village of Newark. being one of the first settlers in that locality and remaining on his claim one year, duly perfecting his title. He also took up a homestead and a tree claim after proving on his original claim, and to the two latter tracts he proved title in 1886. In that year he engaged in the livery and draying business in Newark, successfully continuing op- erations in the line until 1893. when he was elected sheriff of the county and forthwith re- moved to Britton, the county seat, in the mean- while disposing of his business interests in New- ark. After the expiration of his official term he engaged in farming and trading, thus continuing until November, 1899, when he purchased the Commercial Hotel, which he has since conducted most successfully, having doubled the capacity of the house and made it modern and attractive in all respects. The building is three stories in height and has forty sleeping rooms, while its appointments are first-class throughout and its cuisine exceptionally excellent. He spares no pains in catering to the wants of his patrons, and is ably seconded by his wife, both being genial and hospitable and having the esteem of all who know them. It may be stated at this point that
Mrs. Brooks also has the distinction of being a pioneer of the county, having been the first woman to permanently settle in Newark town- ship. In politics Mr. Brooks is a stalwart Re- publican, and has taken an active part in public affairs, though he has not held other important official preferment than that of sheriff, in which capacity he made a most creditable record. He is a member of Benevolent Lodge, No. 98, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
On the 21st of December, 1880, Mr. Brooks was united in marriage to Miss Adella Tarbert, who was born and reared in Maryland, as were also her parents. Andrew and Amelia Tarbert. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks have no children.
RICHARD R. JONES, M. D., who is suc- cessfully established in the practice of his pro- fession in Britton, Marshall county, is a native of the Badger state, having been born in Cam- bria, Columbia county, Wisconsin, on the 19th of September, 1861, and being a son of Hugh R. and Laura (Williams) Jones, both scions of stanch old Welsh stock and both natives of Wales. The father of the Doctor came to America in the 'fifties and took up his residence in Wisconsin. The maternal ancestors of the subject were the first settlers of Cambria, that state, and through their influence others of their countrymen were induced to locate in that lo- cality, the name of the town having b.en given in honor of the original name of their native land. Hugh R. Jones remained in Wisconsin until the discovery of gold in Colorado, when he joined in the memorable stampede to Pike's Peak. He remained a short time and then re- turned to Wisconsin, where he devoted his at- tention to farming until 1890, when he returned to Colorado and has since maintained his home in the city of Denver, having there followed his trade, that of stone-mason, and having been a successful contractor and builder. He and his estimable wife have three children, the Doctor being the eldest.
Dr. Jones passed his boyhood days in his native county and received his early educational
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discipline in the public schools of Cambria, later supplementing this by a course of study in Downer College, at Fox Lake, that state. In 1885 he was matriculated in that celebrated in- stitution, Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago, where he completed the prescribed technical course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1888, receiving his degree of Doc- tor. of Medicine. He began the practice of his profession in his native town, where he remained six months, at the expiration of which he came to South Dakota and took up his residence in Britton, where he has built up a large and repre- sentative practice and gained the highest con- fidence and regard of the people of the com- munity, while he has been in practice here for a longer period than any other physician in the county, while it may be said without fear of con- tradiction that there are few in the northern part of the state who can lay credit to as many years of continuous practice here as can he. In the early days his labors were of the most arduous and exacting nature, and called for much self- abnegation, devotion and courage, as he was often called to attend those distant from thirty to fifty miles, traversing the prairies in all kinds of weather and sparing himself no effort or per- sonal discomfort in thus ministering to those in affliction. In 1898 the Doctor opened a drug store in Britton, and he has since conducted this enter- prise in connection with his active professional work. He is a member of the state medical so- ciety and other professional organizations, and is medical examiner for nearly all the leading life-insurance companies doing business in this section of the state, while he is also incumbent of the office of coroner. In politics Dr. Jones is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and fraternally he is af- filiated with the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and its Degree of Honor ; the Daughters of Rebekah, and the Knights of the Maccabees.
On the 21st of November. 1890, was solem- nized the marriage of Dr. Jones to Miss Florence Thayer, who was born in the state of New York.
and they have three children, Floyd, Gracene and Marion. A twin brother of the eldest died aged three months.
JAMES MADDEN, of Worthing, who has been a resident of Lincoln county for more than thirty years, was born near Newcastle, Schuyl- kill county, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of Novem- ber. 1847, and is a son of Owen and Ellen ( Tul- ley) Madden, both of whom were born in County Galway, Ireland, whence they came to America when young, their marriage having been solem- nized at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. They were de- scended from stanch old Irish stock, identified with the annals of the province of Connaught for many generations. The father of the sub- ject was employed in the mines in l'ennsylvania. and met his death as the result of an accident while thus working, our subject being but eigh- een months old at the time; while his mother died when he was but nine years of age, so that he was early thrown upon his resources and is to be considered as essentially the architect of his own fortunes. He attended the common schools of Pennsylvania until the death of his mother and later contrived to effectively supplement this training by doing farm work in summer and va- rious chores in winter, during which latter period he had the privilege of attending school, receiv- ing his board in compensation for his services in the line noted. In 1856, wishing to find some other occupation than that which had cost his father his life, he accompanied an unmarried un- cle to McHenry county, Illinois, where he worked on a farm for several years, in the meanwhile at- tending school, as before stated. In 1864 he sig- nalized his patriotism by enlisting in the defense of the Union, becoming a private in Company A. Ninety-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front, taking part in the battle of Nashville, Tennessee, and the en- gagement at Spanish Fort, Alabama, which was captured by the Sixteenth Army Corps, on the evening of April 8, 1865. General A. J. Smith commanding the corps. Mr. Madden continued in active service until the close of the war, when
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he received his honorable discharge and returned to Illinois, where he remained until 1868. when he removed to Steele county, Minnesota, where he was engaged in farm work during the summer of that year and employed in the lumbering woods during the ensuing winter. In the spring of 1869 he returned to Illinois, and with the money saved from his earnings he purchased a team of horses, with which he returned to Minnesota, where he was associated withi a friend in farming for one season, disaster attending their enterprise, as their 1 crops were destroyed by a severe hailstorm. Mr. Madden then abandoned agricultural pur- suits and passed the winter of 1871-2 in the south, and in the spring of the latter year he came as a pioneer to what is now South Dakota and filed on a homestead claim in Lincoln county, and on this place he has ever since maintained his home, while he has added to his holdings un- til he now has a valuable and finely improved landed estate of one hundred acres, being part of the town site, continuing to devote his attention to diversified agriculture and to the raising of stock, while for the past twelve years he has als controlled a prosperous business in the buying and shipping of grain. He held for several terms the office of chairman of the official board of Lynn township, and has also been a valued member of the board of trustees of the village of Worthing, which is located on his- old homestead. He gave his allegiance to the Republican party until its repudiation of bimetallic monetary sys- tem, and since that time he endeavors to support the men and measures which seem most fully American and make for the perpetuation of the principles on which our republic is founded. Fraternally he is an appreciative member of the time-honored Masonic order, with which he has been identified since 1882, having at the time of this writing attained to the thirty-second degree 11 the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and being affiliated with Oriental Consistory, No. I, of the valley of Yankton. He has also been a member of the Grand Army of the Republic since 1885. and takes a deep interest in his old comrades in arms. He is liberal and tolerant in his religious views and recognizes the good accomplished by
all denominations. He is straightforward and sincere in all the relations of life, his integrity is beyond question, and thus he has gained a wide circle of loyal friends, and ever holds this friend- ship inviolable.
On the 12th of December, 1876, at Canton, this county, Mr. Madden was united in marriage to Miss Mary Gerber, a daughter of Frederick and Augustine Gerber, the former of whom was born and reared in Switzerland, while the latter was born in Germany. The following record is entered concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Madden, the respective dates of birth being given in the connection: Ernest, December 13, 1877 ; Cora, May 29, 1882 ; Maud, May 18, 1885 ; Fred- erick, July 2, 1886; Mary Ellen, July 3, 1894; June, October 18, 1896; and Edwin Tulley, Sep- tember 25, 1903.
LOUIS H. CLYBORNE, one of the repre- sentative and highly honored citizens of Herreid, Campbell county, is a native of the state of Illi- nois, having been born in Cameron, Warren county, on the 5th of October, 1861, and being a son of Archibald and Jennie E. (Leeder) Cly- borne, the former of whom is now a resident of the city of Chicago. The original representatives of the Clyborne family in America were num- bered among the first settlers of the patrician old state of Virginia, where the family became one of prominence and influence, the lineage of our subject being traced back to William Cly- borne, who established his home in the Old Do- minion state in the early colonial epoch of our national history. William L. Clyborne, the grandfather of the subject, was one of the early settlers in Cass county, Michigan, in which state Archibald Clyborne was born and reared. In 1860 he removed to Illinois and located near Galesburg, where he continued to reside until 1876, when he removed to the city of Chicago, where he has ever since maintained his home and where he is engaged in the live-stock commission business. Of the four children the subject of this sketch is the eldest.
Mr. Clyborne was reared in Illinois and se-
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cured his education in the public schools of Gales- | years superintendent of a Sunday school in burg and Chicago. He continued to reside in . Mound City. Illinois until 1883. when he came to South Da- On the Ioth of November, 1889, Mr. Cly- borne was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth N. Stuart, who was born in Fillmore county, Minnesota, being a daughter of Charles Stu- art, who there continued to reside until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Clyborne have four children, namely: Helen V., Robert .A., Gladys Ramona and Mildred Ruth. kota, arriving in Aberdeen, Brown county, on the 27th of March. After passing a few months in Aberdeen he removed to Lagrace, Campbell county, in which locality he was engaged in farm- ing and stock growing until 1800, having been very successful in his efforts and having con- tributed materially to the development of the in- dustrial resources of this attractive secti. n of the state. In the year mentioned he was elected reg- ister of deeds of the county, and took up his residence in Mound City, the county scat. He was re-elected in 1892, and thus remained incum- bent of this office for four successive years. Upon retiring from office Mr. Clyborne engaged in the real-estate and abstract business in Mound City, and in 1895 formed a partnership with C. E. Eckert, which association has ever since con- tinned. In 1897 they purchased the bank of Campbell & Johnston, in Mound City, which they conducted until 1903, when they moved to Herreid, and on the Ist of May, 1903, they pur- chased the Herreid State Bank, which they reor- ganized as the Campbell County State Bank, of which they still remain in control. The bank is capitalized for twenty thousand dollars, has de- posits of fifty thousand dollars. The institution is a solid and reliable one, being ably and carefully managed and controlling an excellent business. Mr. Clayborne has extensive real-estate interests in the county, being associated with Mr. Eckert in the ownership of five thousand acres of valua- ble farming lands, while he is also interested in various manufacturing and industrial enterprises. He has an attractive modern residence in Her- reid, and the same is a center of gracious hos- pitality. In politics the subject accords a stanch allegiance to the Republican party, and frater- nally he is identified with Acacia Lodge, No. 108, . Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He has been an earnest and zealons factor in church and Sunday school and is one of the prominent and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal church in his home town. He was for thirteen
D. G. STOKES, one of the leading farmers and stock growers of Marshall county, was born in Wright county, Minnesota, on the 8th of Jan- uary, 1859, and is a son of Frederick and Mary ( Hogue) Stokes, both of whom were born and reared in England. The father of the subject came to America in the early 'fifties and remained for some time in the state of New York, whence he came to the west and settled thirty miles north of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where both he and his wife still reside. They became the parents of twelve children, of whom the subject was the sixth in order of birth.
D. G. Stokes secured his early educational training in the public schools of Minnesota, duly availing himself of the advantages thus afforded and thus laying the foundation for a successful career in connection with the active duties and responsibilities of life. He was identified with the saw milling business in Minnesota tintil 1888, when he came to the present state of South Da- kota, which was admitted to the Union about two years later, and he joined his brother, H. L., at Burch, Marshall county, the latter having lo- cated here in 1886. They contintied to be asso- ciated in the carrying on of a general merchan- dise business in Burch until 1896, when they re- moved their stock of goods to Britton, where the enterprise has since been continued and where the firm have built up a large and representative business, having a well-appointed store and car- rying a select and comprehensive stock. They are also the owners of sixteen hundred acres of fine farming and grazing land in the county the
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