History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 157

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

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trace behind, but rather had those solid and more substantial qualities which shone with a constant luster, shedding light in the dark places with steadiness and continuity.

RALPH W. PARLIMAN, one of the prom- inent and leading attorneys of Sioux Falls, is a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born at Newton Falls, Ohio, January 25, 1861, the son of Edwin and Jerusha I. (North) Parliman. He obtained a good common-school education, which was supplemented by attending the high school in Hastings, Minnesota. In 1885 he commenced the study of law with his father, Judge Edwin Parliman, and was admitted to practice June 24, 1887. He first came to South Dakota May 10, 1878, and located at Sioux Falls and commenced the active practice of his profession at Britton, South Dakota, in 1887. In 1891 he moved to Webster, this state, where he continued his busi- ness association with James Wells, under the firm name of Wells & Parliman, taking personal charge of the office. March 1, 1899, he located at Sioux Falls, where he formed a partnership with his father under the firm name of Parliman & Parliman, which enjoyed marked success and was continued up to the time of Judge Parli- man's death, June 5, 1899. He then remained alone in the practice until, in December, 1903, he became associated with C. P. Bates, as Bates & Parliman, and they have since remained asso- ciated, commanding one of the largest law prac- tices at the Minnehaha bar. As a lawyer Mr. Parliman evinces a familiarity with legal princi- ples and a ready perception of facts, together with ability to apply the one to the other, which has won him a reputation as a sound and safe prac- titioner. Years of conscientious work have brought with them an equal increase of practice and reputation and also growth in legal knowl- edge and wide and careful judgment. In discus- sion of the principles of law he is noted for clear- ness of statement and candor. His zeal for a client never leads him to urge an argument which in his judgment is not in harmony with the law, and in all the important litigation with which he

has been connected no one has ever charged him with anything calculated to bring discredit upon himself or cast a reflection upon his profession. By a straightforward, honorable course he has built up a large and lucrative legal business and financially has been successful far beyond the average of his calling, as he stands today among the first at the bar of his county. In politics, Mr. Parliman was reared a Democrat and remained faithful. to the traditions of his party until the campaign of 1890 when, feeling that he could not conscientiously endorse his party's course, he af- filiated with the Republicans. In 1888 he was elected state's attorney of Marshall county, and on May 10, 1894, President Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Webster, which position he held until June 5. 1898. While a resident of that place he was a member of the school board for nine years. May 14, 1898, he was commissioned first lieutenant and quartermaster of the Third Regiment United States Volunteer Cavalry and on June 21, 1898, he was appointed quartermas- ter of the First Cavalry Brigade, being detached from his own company. May 20, 1899, he was appointed referee in bankruptcy and retained this position for two years. Fraternally he is affiliated with Minnehaha Lodge, No. 5, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Sioux Falls Lodge, No. 62, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Web- ster.

On March 16, 1888, Mr. Parliman was united in marriage to Miss Mattie A. Chamberlain and they have five children: Ralph W., Marie, James C., John E. and Beatrice I.

FRANK HUSS, a leading stockman of Pen- nington county, South Dakota, making his head- quarters at Pedro, is a native of Tiffin, Ohio, where he was born on the 5th of February, 1863. On the paternal side, he is of German ancestors and on the maternal, German and English. His paternal grandfather, Jacob Huss, was a native of Pennsylvania and at the age of eight years was left an orphan. Subsequently he moved to Frederick county, Maryland, and later to Senec.i

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county, Ohio, where he married Mrs. Sarah Hunter (nee Robinson), widow of John Hunter. She was a native of Martinsburg, Virginia, and the fruits of her union with Mr. Huss were six children. Jacob Huss died at Tiffin, Ohio, at the age of forty-six years, while his widow passed away also at Tiffin, aged eighty years. The sub- jeet's father, George R. Huss, is the only mem- ber of this family now living. He was born at Tiffin, Ohio, January 5. 1828. and married Mary A. Tomb, January 8. 1851. To this union were born eight children, namely: Charles, deceased; Benjamin J., of Logan, Ohio; Dr. John R., of Pierre, South Dakota; Bell, deceased ; Harry, of Toledo, Ohio; Frank C., the subject of this sketch ; Emma, now Mrs. H. L. Wenner, of Tif- fin, Ohio; Nellie, now Mrs. W. G. Nichols, of Tiffin. The subject's maternal grandfather. Ben- jamin Tomb, was a native of Pennsylvania and moved to Ohio some time in the 'forties. Prior to his removal he married in Pennsylvania and became the father of nine children. He was en- gaged in the banking business at Tiffin, Ohio, for thirty years. His wife, Mary A., was born at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, in November, 1854.

Frank C: Huss received his education in the public schools of Tiffin, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen years started out in life upon his own responsibility. He first went to Ogallala, Ne- braska, where he remained three years in the em- ploy of the Sheidley Cattle Company. In 1884 he went to Cisco, Texas, but one year later came to Hot Springs, South Dakota, and was employed on a ranch for several years. In 1892 he came to Pennington county and engaged in the stock business with Thomas B. Tomb, under the firm name of F. C. Huss & Company, but in 1896 bought his partners out and since this time has been in the business alone, meeting with pro- nounced success in the enterprise.

On the 20 of September. 1890, Mr. Huss was married to Mrs. Harriett L. Chapman, who was born in Illinois, March 3, 1870, the daughter of James E. and Mary Chapman. To the subject and his wife were born two children, George F. and Nellie E. Mrs. Huss died March 27. 1895.

and on August 22, 1900, Mr. Huss married Miss Minnie M. Calfee, who was born in Magnolia, Iowa, January 16, 1866, the daughter of William and Mary S. Calfee, and to this last union of the subject was born two children, Mercy S. and Mary T.

Politically the subject is an ardent Repub- lican and takes an active interest in the welfare of his party, though precluded from participating actively in campaign work because of business demands. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, while re- ligiously he supports the Methodist Episcopal church at Pierre, in which he has been trustee for four years and member of the board of stew- ards for two years. The subject has taken a deep interest in the welfare of the community in which he resides and has done all within his power to advance its varied interests and today holds a high place in the esteem of his fellow citizens.

ISAAC MURPHY, a successful contractor of Sioux Falls, was born July 15, 1863, at Chat- field, Minnesota. His father, who was engaged in agricultural pursuits, died when the subject was but two years old, while his mother is still living. The subject attained his early education in the schools of Chatfield, but at the early age of seventeen years was compelled to start out on his own responsibility. He first engaged in cutting timber in Minnesota, but after three years he came to Dakota territory and located on a farm six miles northeast of Sioux Falls where he remained for one year. He then engaged in railroad contracting work and a short time later he located in Sioux Falls and engaged in his present business, house raising and moving. He rapidly acquired a reputation for thorough work- manship and has handled some very large con- tracts in this state, being thoroughly well equipped and competent in every way to handle any contract in his line. He raises and moves brick, stone and frame buildings and gives spe- cial attention to shoring up fronts. Politically Mr. Murphy is a Republican, though business demands have precluded his giving any special

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attention to politics. He started in life without a dollar and has made all he possesses by his own resources and stands today one of the representa- tive men of his section of the state. Mr. Murphy has been twice married. On October 21, 1885, he wedded Miss Eva Marsden, the fruits of which union were two children, Marsden A. and Lila E. Mrs. Murphy died May II, 1896, and on October 17, 1898, Mr. Murphy was married to Miss Agnes C. Wright and they have one child, Clifford I. Their home is a center of gra- cious hospitality and their friends are legion.

SIOUX FALLS BREWING AND MALT- ING COMPANY. - MORIZ LEVINGER stands as chief executive of one of the most im- portant industrial concerns in the city of Sioux Falls, being president and general manager of the Sioux Falls Brewing and Malting Company, while he has been identified with the enterprise since 1886 and has been the leading factor in building up one of the greatest breweries in the west. He is a thorough, discriminating and reli- able business man and is one of the representative citizens of the city.

Concerning the inception and rise of the Sioux Falls Brewery we can not do better than to quote somewhat freely from a previously published ar- ticle concerning the same: "The Sioux Falls Pantagraph in its issue of October 7, 1873, stated that John McClellan had sold four lots on the side hill to Messrs. Krudnig and Foerster, of Yank- ton, on which they would commence the erection of a brewery as soon as material could be pro- cured for the purpose. These lots were located near by, if not the same, lots now occupied by Heynsohn Brothers, but no attempt was made to build a brewery upon them. In an issue of the same paper of August 29, 1874, we find the fol- lowing item : 'Parties are now engaged in build- ing a brewery and will have it completed so far as to offer the genuine lager by Christmas,' and that 'Knott and Nelson are the names of the gen- tlemen building it.' The boiler reached Sioux Falls October 27, 1874. About January 20, 1875, the firm of Knott & Nelson was dissolved by mu-

tual consent, S. S. Nelson retiring ; and C. K. Howard became associated with Mr. Knott, first under the firm name of George A. Knott & Com- pany, and later the interested parties incorporated as the Sioux Falls Brewing Company. The busi- ness was conducted for several years by this firm, with a capital stock of forty thousand dollars, George A. Knott taking fifteen thousand dollars of the stock, C. K. Howard fifteen thousand, and the officers of the First National Bank of Sioux Falls the balance. Mr. Knott was the general manager of the business until the affairs of the company became involved in litigation, in 1886."

Without entering into detail in the connec- tion, it may be said that it was at this juncture that Mr. Levinger became identified with the institution, and much difficulty was experienced by him in sustaining his claims and protecting his capitalistic interests. A long and tedious ser- ies of litigations ensued and the case became a somewhat celebrated one, being finally brought before the supreme court of the territory at its February term in 1888, at which time the de- cision was adverse to Mr. Levinger, while in the rehearing at the May term the decision was sus- tained. Finally a second rehearing was asked and denied and the case was then appealed to the supreme court of the United States. This action caused the defending parties to assume a different attitude and within a short time a settlement of the matter was consummated by the litigating parties, much to the satisfaction of Mr. Levinger and his associate, Moses Kaufmann, the secretary and treasurer of the present com- pany. Not yet was the way to be made clear for those interested in the success of the enterprise, for further litigation followed, on various grounds, terminating finally as late as 1894, since which time the business has been unhampered and has grown steadily in scope and importance.

In the first year after the operation of the brewery was inaugurated two hundred and fifty barrels of beer were manufactured, the second year showing an output of twice that quantity, while the third year fifteen hundred barrels were turned out. Since the brewery came under the control of Messrs. Levinger and Kaufmann ex-

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tensive improvements have been made in the plant, making it one of the largest and best equipped in the west. In 1900 the company erected a new granite stock house and made other improvements, involving a total expendi- ture of one hundred and sixty-four thousand dol- lars. In 1901 was erected the present fine inalt house, which is controlled by a separate con- pany, of which Mr. Levinger is president, the concern having a paid-in capital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, while the capacity of the malt house is one thousand bushels a day. The personnel of the official corps of this com- pany is as follows: M. Levinger, president ; C. N. Voss, of Davenport, Iowa, vice-president ; C. J. Longfellow, secretary ; and C. E. McKin- ney, treasurer. The brewing company is incor- porated with a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and its officers are Moriz Lev- inger, president and general manager, and M. Kaufmann, secretary and treasurer. In 1903 an addition to the brewery was made, in the erec- tion of a modern grain elevator, at a cost of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and through this provision the capacity of the plant has been doubled. The products of the brewery have attained a wide reputation for their superior excellence, and the trade of the concern extends over a wide radius of country, while the annual output now reaches an average of thirty-five thousand barrels. The interested principals are men of sterling character and command the confi- dence and esteem of all with whom they have dealings, while both are numbered among the loyal and valued citizens of Sioux Falls.

MARTIN G. SINON, one of the representa- tive members of the bar of South Dakota, being established in the practice of his profession in Fort Pierre, was born in Addison county, Ver- mont. He received his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of his native state, having been graduated in the high school at Vergennes, Vermont, and having thereafter con- tinued his studies in an excellent classical school in the same town. He then began reading law

under the effective direction of a leading mem- ber of the bar of that place, and under these con- ditions continued his technical studies for three years. In 1875 he came to the west and located in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, being duly ad- mitted to the bar of the state. and being there engaged in practice until he located in Iligh- more, the county seat of Hyde county, South Dakota, where he continued to be successfully engaged in the work of his profession until 1889, when he located in Pierre, where he remained one year, at the expiration of which he established his home and professional headquarters in Fort Pierre, where he has since continued in general practice and where he has built up a large and representative business. Mr. Sinon is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, and has been an active worker in its cause, while he has been prominent in its local councils. He was elected register of deeds of Hyde county, and was elected as his own successor two years later, thus serv- ing four consecutive years. He was also elected state's attorney of Stanley county, making a most excellent record as public prosecutor and being chosen to succeed himself, while later he was appointed to the same office, to fill a vacancy.

Mr. Sinon was married to Miss Mary Scott, of Polk county, Iowa, who is now deceased, she being survived by four children

WILLIAM JONES, deceased, bore a promi- nent part in the upbuilding of South Dakota dur- ing its territorial days and deserves special men- tion in a work of this kind. He was a native of the old Buckeye state, born in 1831, and acquired a common-school education in his native state. Concluding that the west had better opportuni- ties for advancement, he came to this section and engaged in railroad contracting, having aided in the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. He operated and owned the first stage line from Denver, Colorado, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Later he went to Colorado and engaged in mer- chandising at Georgia Gulch, also giving some attention to mining interests which he had ac- quired. He made money and used it to good

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purpose. During the war of the Rebellion, he equipped and paid the entire expenses of a regi- ment of Colorado troops which were sent to the front and during the first two years of the strug- gle he acted as quartermaster. After the close of the war he engaged in freighting from St. Joseph, Missouri, west, and in 1872 he went to Utah where he remained four years, coming to Black Hills, Dakota territory, in 1876. Here he engaged in farming and stock raising, which he followed up to the time of his death, which occurred at Spearfish, February 16, 1886. A Re- publican in politics, he always took an active part in the interests of his party and did much to strengthen party lines in his section of the state.

Mr. Jones was married in Denver, Colorado, in 1863, to Ellen Keliher, who survives him, now living at Sioux Falls at the age of seventy- three years. Their children are Linnie B., widow of Bernard McCrossan, of Sioux Falls; Henry M., of Sioux Falls ; Nellie, wife of O. R. LaMon- tague, of Lead, South Dakota. Mr. Jones pos- sessed a character which won for him universal esteem. A man of strong convictions, he had the courage to express and maintain his opinions at all times. Possessed of indomitable energy, he was always at the front in everything that obtained to uplift his fellow man and advance the community in which he lived. He won for him- self a reputation that kept him to the forefront among his fellow citizens throughout his active days. In his family he was a generous provider, a kind husband and indulgent and kind father and possessed the attributes of character that un- consciously win respect and admiration.

FREDERICK A. JONES, of Minnehaha county, his finely improved and valuable farni being located in Sioux Falls township, comes of stanch old New England stock, and is himself a native of the Green Mountain state, having been born in Stamford, Bennington county, Ver- mont. He secured his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native city, and was a lad of seven years at the time of his parents' re-

moval to Illinois, where he continued to attend school at intervals, after which he was employed on various farms in Illinois until he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and be- came numbered among the pioneers of Minne- haha county, purchasing a farm and having ever since continued to make his home on the same, while he has brought the land under a high state of cultivation and improved it with substantial buildings, including an attractive and commodi- ous residence. He has planted a nice grove of trees, now well-matured, and everything about his farm betokens thrift and prosperity. In poli- tics he has ever accorded an uncompromising al- legiance to the Democratic party, and has been an active worker in its cause, though he has never sought official preferment.

Mr. Jones was married to Miss Cora J. Stod- dard, and they have seven children.

CHARLES A. STEPHENS, one of the prominent and successful young farmers and stock growers of Beadle county, was born in Grant county, Wisconsin. His parents were numbered among the early pioneers of Wiscon- sin, and there the father attained prominence as a farmier and a raiser of and dealer in live stock, especially horses. He came to the territory of Dakota, in company with the subject of this sketch, in 1886, and the subject has since visited the state each successive year, he and his father having been engaged in shipping horses from Wisconsin to South Dakota during the interven- ing years, and in the connection they accumu- lated a large tract of land in Beadle county, the development and improvement of the same lead- ing the entire family to remove to the county and take up a permanent residence, while the sub- ject has continued to be actively associated with his father in the management of the fine property liere. The subject secured his educational train- ing in the public schools of his native county and has had most excellent business discipline through his intimate association with his hon- ored father from his youth up. In politics he is a stanch Republican, as is also his father, and

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both are known as progressive and public-spir- ited citizens.

Mr. Stephens was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Ziegler, who was likewise born and reared in Grant county, Wisconsin, and they have two children.

T. B. LONG, one of the representative mem- ber of the bar of Brule county, is a native of Iowa, and secured his early educational discipline in the public schools of Mason City, Iowa, being graduated in the high school, and later he was for one year a student in the law department of the Iowa State University, at Iowa City, having previously prosecuted his technical reading un- der an able preceptor, and was admitted to the bar. In 1880 Judge Long came to what is now the state of South Dakota and located in Mitchell, where he was engaged in the practice of his pro- fession about two years, while he also took up a pre-emption claim adjoining the town site of Mount Vernon, in the same county. Later he came to Brule county and took up his residence in Kimball, where he has ever since maintained his home and where he has gained prestige in his profession and distinguished precedence as a citizen. He is an uncompromising Republican in his political proclivities and was elected state's attorney of Brule county. He was also elected to the probate bench, and he acceptably adminis- tered the affairs of this important office for one term. Under the administration of President Harrison, Judge Long was appointed postmaster at Kimball, and held the office four years. Since retiring from office he has given his attention to the active work of his profession. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order and also the Knights of Pythias. Judge Long was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Egloff, and they have one child.

REV. J. R. HIGGINS, the able and popular priest in charge of St. Rose church and parish in the attractive village of Montrose, McCook county, is a native of the fair Emerald Isle,

though he has passed practically his entire life in America. He was born in County Sligo, Ire- land, and his parents emigrated to the United States when he was a child of four years. They located in the city of New York, in the parish of historic old St. Michael's church, and there the subject passed his youthful days. He se- cured his preliminary educational discipline in the parish school of St. Michael's church, and after completing the prescribed curriculum he en- tered St. Francis Xavier College, in the city of New York, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1883. He then com- pleted his philosophical and theological courses in Dominican colleges in Kentucky and Ohio, and then was ordained to the priesthood. After his reception of holy orders Father Higgins initi- ated the active work of his sacred calling by serving as a missionary priest in Kentucky, Ten- nessee and Minnesota. While residing in the last mentioned state he made a lecture tour through South Dakota, and incidentally he be- came favorably impressed with the state as a de- sirable field for his work, and he determined to locate here providing the necessary permission could be secured from the church authorities. He was granted his desire, and became a member of this diocese, being first assigned to pastoral work in Bon Homme county, where he labored until 1903, when he was assigned to his present charge as rector of St. Rose church, in Montrose, where he has gained the affectionate regard and hearty co-operation of the members of his par- ish, into whose work he is infusing zeal and vi- tality, while his gracious personality and toler- ance have gained to him distinctive popularity in his new field of labor.

JAMES DOUGLASS, the present postmas- ter of Carthage, was born in New York, and at the country schools of his native place received the elementary education usually allotted to the children of that day. The western fever was then raging strongly in the eastern states, and James Douglass did not escape this universal in- fection and so, when twenty-one years of age,

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History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 157

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