History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 147

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

USA > South Dakota > History of South Dakota, Vol. II > Part 147

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

Mr. Bailey was married at Chicago, Illinois, on March 28, 1887, to Mary Emma Swan. They have had four children, of whom three, Theodore Mead. Charles Olin, Jr., and Anna Elida, are living, and one, Joseph Mead Bailey III, is dead.

Mr. Bailey is a member of the various Ma- sonic bodies and is also a Knight of Pythias, an Odd Fellow and an Elk. He is prominent in Masonic circles and has been high priest of Sioux Falls Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Masons, eminent commander of Cyrene Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, master of Minnehaha Lodge, No. 5, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, thrice illustrious master of Alpha Coun- cil, No. 1, Royal and Select Masters, and vener- able master of Khurum Lodge of Perfection, No. 3. Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He has also occupied the positions of grand warden, grand sword bearer and grand standard bearer, and is now (1904-5) grand senior warden of the grand commandery, Knights Templar, of South Dakota.

Mr. Bailey is a member of the Iroquois Club of Chicago and of the Dakotah Club of Sioux Falls. He has been for many years a member

1821

HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

of the American Bar Association and during sev- eral years has been the vice-president of the asso- ciation for the state of South Dakota.

JOSEPH MEAD BAILEY, JR., was born at Freeport, Stephenson county, Illinois, No- vember 7, 1864. He was the third son of Joseph Mead Bailey (former chief justice of Illinois) and Anna Olin Bailey. He attended the public schools of his native city and also the Mount Morris Academy, of Mount Morris, Illinois, and the preparatory school of the (old) University of Chicago. In 1881 he entered the University of Rochester in the class of 1885, but on account of ill health was obliged to leave college before finishing his course. Subsequently the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon him by the University of Rochester as of the class of 1885.

After leaving college "Joe" Bailey, as he was commonly and popularly known, became engaged in adjusting the claims of Iowa, Illinois, Ohio and other states against the government under what is known as the swamp land act. He also became interested in land speculations in north- western Iowa. In 1884 he came to Sioux Falls, Dakota, and obtained from the territorial author- ities the contract for the convict labor in the ter- ritorial penitentiary. In 1885 he organized the German-American Loan and Investment Com- pany, which in 1887 was re-incorporated as the German-American Loan and Trust Company. Among the stockholders of this company were many prominent men, among them General John A. Logan and William Windom, formerly secre- tary of the treasury. In 1886 the private bank of Hills & Beebe, of Sioux Falls, was incorpor- ated as a national bank under the title of the Cit- izens' National Bank, and J. M. Bailey, Jr., be- came its vice-president. In 1888 the Citizens' National Bank was consolidated with the Minne- haha National Bank of Sioux Falls and he be- came the president of the consolidated institution, he being the youngest national bank president in the United States at that time.

In 1884 Mr. Bailey was one of the pages in

the Republican national convention at Chicago. In 1888 he was one of the delegates to the Re- publican national convention at Minneapolis from the territory of Dakota. . In 1889 he was appointed by Governor A. C. Mellette as treas- urer of the territory of Dakota and held this po- sition until the admission of the state of South Dakota, in November, 1889. At the Republican state convention at Mitchell in 1890, he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for state treasurer. After one of the hardest political contests ever carried on in South Dakota, he was defeated by W. W. Taylor, who subsequently defaulted with the major portion of the moneys in the state treasury. Had the result of the nom- inating convention been different, the state would have been spared the most disgraceful episode in its history.

Mr. Bailey was active in all matters pertain- ing to the welfare of Sioux Falls, the city of his residence, and served as a member of the school board and upon various other organizations in- stituted for the purpose of furthering the mate- rial interests of the city. In 1890 he was ap- pointed by President Harrison as one of the com- missioners to examine the coinage of the mints of that year.

J. M. Bailey, Jr., was married in June, 1886, at Aurora, Illinois, to Corolyn Currier Tanner. He died September 12, 1891, at the home of his father at Freeport, Illinois. At the funeral, which was held at Freeport, there were in attendance many of his friends and business and political associates from South Dakota. He left no chil- dren. His widow is remarried to John Kimberly Mumford and now resides in New Jersey. His mother, Anna O. Bailey, is still living and resides at Freeport, Illinois. His only living brother, Charles O. Bailey, is a practicing lawyer of Sioux Falls.

CHARLES E. MCKINNEY, who has been president of the Sioux Falls National Bank from the time of its organization and who has been a resident of the city for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury, claims the old Keystone state as the place

1822

HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

of his nativity, having been born in Ulster, Brad- ford county, Pennsylvania, on the 16th of March, 1858, and being a son of Russel and Elizabeth Mckinney, the father being a farmer by voca- tion. The subject worked on the farm during his youth. After completing the limited curricu- lum of the district schools he was matriculated in Cook Academy, at Havana, that state, which he attended for three years, going from there to Colgate Academy, Hamilton, New York, where he was graduated in 1878. He took one year at Madison University, also one year in the law de- partment of Michigan University, at Ann Arbor. In 1880 Mr. Mckinney located in the city of Detroit, Michigan. In November, 1880, he came to Sioux Falls, which was then but a frontier village. Here he became a member of the firm of Easton, McKin- ney & Scougel, and they established banks in Sioux Falls, Yankton and Dell Rapids. In December, 1882, Mr. Mckinney further showed his sagacity and enterprising spirit by effecting the organization of the Sioux Falls National Bank, one of the early institutions of the sort in the state and one that has had a history of suc- cessful operations, and most able and conservative management. He was made president of the bank at the time of its incorporation and has ever since continned as its chief executive, while the prosperity and prestige which mark the institu- tion are due in large measure to his wise counsel and the discriminating business policy which he has enforced in his official capacity. Mr. McKin- ney was admitted to the bar of the territory of Dakota, in 1889, but has given but little attention to active professional work. A previously pub- lished sketch of his career has spoken of him as follows: "Mr. Mckinney has always been an active, enterprising, energetic citizen, occasion- ally taking a hand in local and state politics, but devoting his time principally to financial matters, in which he has the reputation of being cool- headed and successful. He has been a member of the board of education of his home city and was a member of the commission appointed to adjust the financial matters between North and South Dakota when they assumed statehood. In

1891-2 he was one of the railroad commissioners of South Dakota." In 1902 he was appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the United States mint commissioners. It may be further stated that Mr. Mckinney is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party, in whose cause he has ever shown a deep interest.

Mr. Mckinney was married in December, 1880, to Miss Allie A. Waterman, of Coldwater, Michigan. Fraternally he is a Mason and has at- tained all the York and Scottish-rite degrees, and he also belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

JONAS H. LIEN was born in Faribault county, Minnesota, on the 12th of December, 1874, being a son of Hans and Gertrude ( Burre- son) Lien, of whom more specific mention is made in the sketch of the life of his brother, Burre H. Lien, on another page of this work. When he was but ten years of age his father died. He attended the public schools and continued his studies in the State Agricultural College of South Dakota, at Brookings, where he fitted himself for the university work. In 1894 he was matriculated in the Nebraska State University, at Lincoln, where he remained until 1896, when he withdrew to take part in the presidential cam- paign of that year. Of his work in the connec- tion another sketch has spoken as follows: "He was employed by the state central committee of the Populist party in South Dakota, and during the campaign spoke in almost every county in the state east of the Missouri river, being at once recognized as a strong political speaker. Such was his success in this campaign that he soon became known as the 'Boy Orator of the Sioux.'" At the next session of the legislature he was elected chief clerk of the assembly, and thereaf- ter for a short time was the city editor of the Sioux Falls Daily Press. In the spring of 1897 he resumed his studies in the Nebraska Univer- sity, where he was graduated in the spring of 1898. Again, for a short time, he was a mem-

1823

HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

ber of the editorial corps of the Daily Press, but when the war with Spain broke out he enlisted in Company I, First Regiment of South Dakota Volunteer Infantry, being mustered into service on the 4th of May, 1898, as first lieutenant and adjutant. His purpose had been to become a pri- vate and earn promotion if possible. His friends persuaded him to accept the commission, and he entered upon the discharge of his duties with the energy and ability which always char- acterized him. In the Philippines he was in the hottest of every fight, from Block House No. 4, where the first battle occurred between the Americans and Filipinos on February 4 and 5, 1899, to Marilao, where he was killed on the 27th of March of that year." Well may it be said that "death lay upon him like the untimely frost upon the fairest flower of all the field," and yet in the true perspective of his life we can not call its end inconsistent, and the memory of all he was brings its measure of compensation and reconcil- iation to those who knew and loved him. The colonel of his regiment spoke feelingly of the youthful martyr as follows : "He was the bravest man I ever knew, and one of the best of- ficers." He had been promoted to the rank of captain, but had not received his commission as such at the time when he met his death. No one of his age was better or more favorably known throughout the state, and his untimely death was most sincerely deplored by all who knew him, his friends being in number as his acquaintances.

JOHN H. SHELDON, one of the able and popular young business men of Sioux Falls, is a native of the state of Wisconsin, having been born in Okee, Columbia county, on the 21st of De- cember, 1860, and being a son of Harmon B, and Mary E. (Woodley) Sheldon, who later became pioneers of South Dakota. Our subject attended the public schools of his native town and later pursued his studies at Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, while in 1876 he accompanied his parents on their removal to the present state of South Dakota, and was graduated in the high school at Lennox,

Lincoln county, as a member of the class of 1882. In 1885-6 he took a commercial course in the Sioux Falls Business College, and in the lat- ter year was graduated in stenography, having received his technical instruction under the tu- torage of E. P. White, court reporter. In 1882 Mr. Sheldon taught in the district schools in Lincoln county, following his vocation two years, and being thereafter for a short time in the em- ploy of H. M. Avery, of Sioux Falls. In 1888 he entered the employ of the firm of Burnham, Trevett & Mattis, at Huron, where he served as stenographer for two years. He then returned to Sioux Falls and secured a position in the law office of Winsor & Kittredge, remaining with this concern until 1901, and having been private sec- retary to Mr. Kittredge during his political career. Mr. Sheldon's health became much im- paired and he resigned his position with the firin and engaged in the loan and fire-insurance busi- ness, while he still continues the latter portion of the enterprise. On the Ist of August, 1903, he purchased the Cataract Book Store, representing the leading enterprise of the sort in Sioux Falls, and this he has since conducted most successfully. On the Ist of May, 1904, he was appointed gen- eral agent for South Dakota for the National Surety Company, of New York. From March, 1903, until January, 1904, he was local cashier for the Provident Savings Life Assurance So- ciety, of New York.

On the 18th of February, 1891, Mr. Shel- don was united in marriage to Miss Esther E. Lutz, of Doland. Spink county. Mrs. Sheldon was born in Illinois, being a daughter of John S. and Mary (Davis) Lutz. She was graduated in an excellent school at Knowledge Point, Illi- nois, and at an early age accompanied her par- ents on their removal to South Dakota. She con- tinued her studies in a select school at Doland, and has since successfully engaged in teaching for a period of about twelve years. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon have two children, Hazel Gladys, who was born on the 7th of November, 1893, and Esther Erminie, who was born on the 28th of May, 1898. In politics Mr. Sheldon is a Re- publican.

1824

HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

JAMES PHILIP is one of those sturdy char- acters to whom success has come through indi- vidual effort in connection with the industrial development of the great northwest, where he las resided from the early pioneer days work- ing his way upward to a position of definite inde- pendence and prosperity and being now one of the influential citizens of the city of Fort Pierre and one of the extensive stock growers of the state, while his is also the distinction of being the owner of the largest head of the American, bison, or buffalo, in the Union. Mr. Philip is a Scotsman and is endowed with the sterling char- acteristics of the race from which he is sprung. He was born in Morayshire, Scotland, on the 30th of April, 1858, and there passed the early years of his life, his educational advantages be- ing such as were afforded in the national schools of the land of hills and heather and being some- what limited, as he early began to depend on his own resources. In 1874, at the age of sixteen years; he came to America, determined to iden- tify himself- with the free and unconstrained life of the great west and coming to Cheyenne, Wy- oming, in which state he was employed as a cat- tle herder until the following year, when he came to the Black Hills, where he passed one winter among the pioneer prospectors and min- ers. Ile then returned to Wyoming and made his heaquarters at Fort Laramie, where he se- cured employment as a teamster in the govern- ment service, remaining thus engaged until 1877, when he went to Fort Robinson, Nebraska, and there secured employment as cowboy with the first cattle outfit that utilized the range on the Running Water, remaining there until the win- ter of 1878-9, when he entered the service of the quartermaster of Fort Robinson, in the ca- pacity of dispatch carrier and guide, being thus employed until January, 1879, after which he devoted his attention to freighting and cattle herding in Nebraska and South Dakota until 1881. when he took up his permanent abode in Stanley county, this state, where he began trad- ing in cattle on his own responsibility, his suc- cess becoming greater with the passing of the years, as he showed marked capacity in a busi-

ness way. In 1896 Mr. Philip effected the or- ganization of the Minnesota and Dakota Cattle Company, with headquarters at Fort Pierre, be- ing made general manager of the same and con- tinuing to be identified with the company until 1890, when he disposed of his interests. He is still prominently engaged in the raising and handling of cattle and is the owner of an excel- lent ranch of ten thousand acres in Stanley county, while, as before stated, he owns the larg- est herd of buffaloes in the Union, taking much pride in the same and having shown much ap- preciative judgment in thus preserving the few remaining specimens of this noble animal, whose vast numbers were ruthlessly swept away with the advance of civilization across the great west- ern plains. He has over one hundred head of the buffaloes. Mr. Philip is also interested in the mercantile and real-estate business in Fort Pierre and is a member of the directorate of the Stockgrowers' National Bank, of this place. In politics he is a stanchi advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and in 1898 was elected to represent his district in the state senate, where he made an excellent record, while he also served one term as a member of the board of county commissioners. He is a Knight Templar Ma- son and has also attained to the thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite division of this time-honored fraternity.

Mr. Philip was married in the spring of 1879 and has six children, the three eldest having been educated in All Saints' School, in the city of Sioux Falls. The names of the children are here entered in order of birth: Emma, Olive, Hazel, Clara, Stanley and Roderick. Mr. Philip is a loyal and progressive citizen and is held in high esteem by all who know him and have recognition of his sterling attributes of charac- ter.

THEODORE W. DWIGHT, one of the rep- resentative business men of the city of Sioux Falls, and an ex-member of the state legislature, was born in the town of Oregon, Dane county, Wisconsin, on the 12th of March, 1865, being a

1825

HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

son of E. W. and Elizabeth (Foote) Dwight, both of whom were born in the state of New York, the respective families having been long and prominently identified with the annals of American history. In the agnatic line the subject of this sketch is a direct descendant of Rev. Jon- athan Edwards, a distinguished historical figure in New England, and also of Timothy Dwight, D. D., one of the early presidents of Yale College. The subject still lives at Oregon, Wisconsin.

Theodore W. Dwight attended the public schools of Red Wing, Minnesota, until he had completed the course in the high school, being graduated as a member of the class of 1885. At the age of twenty years he became a clerk in a general store at Brooklyn, Wisconsin, where he remained until 1888, when he came to South Da- kota and established himself in the general mer- chandise business at Bridgewater. McCook county, where he continued to reside until 1901, having built up a prosperous business in the in- tervening years. He then disposed of his inter- ests there and took up his residence in Sioux Falls, where he became identified with the whole- sale confectionery business, as secretary and treasurer of the Anthony-Dwight Company, which is incorporated under the laws of the state and which controls an excellent and constantly expanding trade throughout the territory nor- mally tributary to Sioux Falls as a wholesale and jobbing center. Mr. Dwight is also the owner of two general stores, one at Canastota and the other at Emery, and these are conducted under his supervision. He is also treasurer of the Re- tail Merchants' Fire Insurance Company, of South Dakota, having held this office since its organization. In politics he gives a stanch alle- giance to the Republican party, as the candidate on whose ticket he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature in 1899, proving a valuable working member of the legislative body. He is affiliated with Unity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Salem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Salem, South Dakota, and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, of which Mrs. Dwight likewise is a member.

On the 20th of August, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Dwight to Miss Jennic M. Brink, daughter of L. S. and C. R. Brink, of Red Wing, Minnesota, and they have one daughter, Helen, who was born on the 6th of February, 1895, and one son, born November 24, 1899.

CHARLES L. NORTON, one of the promi- nent and influential citizens and leading business men of the city of Sioux Falls, holding at the present time the office of cashier of the Sioux Falls National Bank, and also of the Security Savings Bank, claims the old Empire state as the place of his nativity, having been born in Warren county, New York, on the 26th of May, 1852, and being a son of Lindsey D. and Electa S. (Squiers) Norton, both of whom were born and reared in that state, where they remained until about 1860, when they removed to Wis- -consin and located in the village of Edgerton, Rock county, where the father engaged in farm- ing.

The subject received his elementary educa- tional training in the schools of his native county, and was about eight years of age at the time of the family removal to Edgerton, Wisconsin, where he continued to attend the public schools until he had attained the age of fourteen years, when he started to learn the art of telegraphy, in which he became an expert. From 1869 to 1878 he served as station agent at various points on the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad in Iowa and Minnesota, from which latter state, in August, 1878, he came to South Dakota and located in Sioux Falls, as representative of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad, retaining this office until 1880, when he resigned the same. In the meanwhile, in 1880, Mr. Norton was chosen assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Sioux Falls, and in the following year was elected cashier of the Sioux Falls National Bank, of which position he has ever since remained in tenure, having gained a high reputation as a conservative financier and able executive officer. In December, 1902, he was one of the organizers of the Security Savings Bank of Sioux Falls, of

1826

HISTORY OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

which he was chosen cashier at the time of its incorporation, while he still holds this office and is a member of the directorates of each of these important and popular institutions. He is a loyal and progressive citizen and has ever shown a deep interest in local affairs of a public nature, and has lent his aid and influence in support of all worthy objects for the general good. In politics he has been a stanch supporter of the Republican party from the time of attaining his majority, and he has served four terms as treas- urer of Minnehaha county. He was elected in April, 1904, treasurer of the city of Sioux Falls. He represented the second ward on the board of aldermen for one term, and was for two years a member of the board of education. Fraternally he is an appreciative and popular member of the Masonic order, being affiliated with Minnehaha Lodge, No. 5, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; Sioux Falls Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Masons; and Cyrene Commandery, Knights Templar.

In September, 1874, Mr. Norton was united in marriage to Miss Abigail S. Frost, a daughter of Hon. James C. Frost, at that time resident of Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Norton have three children, James L., Edith B. and Maxfield W.

EDGAR J. KINGSBURY, who was one of the honored pioneers of Minnehaha county, and who died in Sioux Falls on the 18th of November, 1903, came of sterling old Puritan lineage and was himself a native of New England, having been born in Andover, Tolland county, Connecti- cut, on the 3d of April, 1831, and being a son of Joseph and Amelia (Reynolds) Kingsbury. He was a brother of Rev. Lucius Kingsbury, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. Kingsbury was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farmi and secured his early education in the common schools, after which he continued his studies in the high school at East Hampton, Massachusetts. At the age of seven- teen years he engaged in teaching, and during the ensuing eight years followed this vocation during the winter, while in the intervening sum-

mers he worked on the farm. Thereafter he had charge of the old homestead farm in Andover until 1880, when he came to South Dakota, ar- riving in Sioux Falls on the 28th of March and passing the first two years in this city, while he devoted his attention to farming and stock rais- ing. He became the owner of a valuable landed estate of three hundred and twenty acres, in Ma- pleton township, and there resided for a number of years, then building a fine residence on section 3, Sioux Falls township, where he made his home. He was a man of much enterprise and adminis- trative ability and gained unqualified success in connection with the industrial affairs with which he identified himself, while he so ordered his life as to ever retain the unqualified confidence and esteem of his fellow men. In politics Mr. Kings- bury accorded an unwavering allegiance to the Republican party, and took a lively interest in all that tended to conserve the best interests of his county and state. He served for some time as assessor of Mapleton township, having also held this office while a resident of Connecticut. He was a faithful and zealous member. of the Congregational church, and was ever active in good works, being charitable and kindly in his judgment and ever striving to uplift and other- wise aid his fellow men. He was a deacon in the church in Sioux Falls, for a number of years, and had also served most efficiently as superin- tendent of the Sunday school in Mapleton town- ship. He was upright and conscientious in all the relations of life and was a man who richly merited the high respect in which he was held.

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 147

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