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E. B. SOPER, JR., cashier of the Citizens' National Bank of Woonsocket, was born in Es- terville, Iowa. He secured his early educational discipline in the public schools and was matricu- lated in Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he was graduated. In the autumn of the following year he entered Columbia College, in the city of New York, and in this celebrated in-
stitution he secured the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He remained one year in the law depart- ment of the same institution, and then entered the law department of the University of Iowa, where he was graduated in the spring of the fol- lowing year, being duly admitted to the bar of the state. In the following June he was united in marriage to Mrs. Clarissa (Robbins) Jackson, of Emmettsburg, where soon after his gradua- tion he became a member of the law firm of Soper, Allen & Alexander, and there he continued in the active practice of his profession until the present Citizens' National Bank of Woonsocket, South Dakota, was organized, and he was called here to accept the position of cashier and general executive manager, in which capacity he has since served. Mr. Soper is a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, being at the present time junior warden of St. Luke's mission at Woonsocket. He is a member of the Sigma Nu college fraternity, and is also identified with the Loyal Legion.
W. L. MONTGOMERY, cashier of the Bank of Iowa and Dakota, at Chamberlain, and a member of the present state senate, is a native of the state of Illinois, having been born in Rock Island county. He was reared on the home farm and after completing the curriculum of the pub- lic schools continued his studies in the Geneseo Academy, at Geneseo, Illinois. Soon after leav- ing school he came west to Nebraska, where he established himself in the real-estate, loan and live-stock business, having his headquarters at Fullerton, Nance county. He removed to north- western Iowa, where he remained about one year, at the expiration of which he came to Chamberlain, South Dakota, where he engaged in the banking and live-stock business, purchas- ing an interest in the Bank of Iowa and Dakota. Later he and his father purchased the interests of all other stockholders in the institution, of which they have since maintained control. Mr. Montgomery has ever given an unqualified alle- giance to the Republican party, and was elected
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to represent his district in the state senate. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Montgomery was united in marriage to Miss Leone King, of Chamberlain, and they have one child.
OLE S. MERAGER, M. D., one of the rep- resentative members of the medical fraternity in the city of Sioux Falls, is a native of Nor- way. He secured his early educational train- ing in the excellent schools of his native place, and then set forth to seek his fortunes in Amer- ica. He secured employment as interpreter on a Mississippi river steamboat, in which capacity he served several months. He removed to Good- hue county, Minnesota, and for the next decade he divided his time between labor of various sorts and attending school, having gained his technical education entirely through his own exertions. He began the study of medicine under able pre- ceptorage, and also studied veterinary surgery. He devoted his attention to the practice of this profession for fifteen years, or until the time of entering the medical college. In 1877 the Doctor came to South Dakota and located in Lake county, where he made his home and headquar- ters until he matriculated in the Sioux City Col- lege of Medicine, Iowa, and there completed the prescribed course. Subsequently he took a spe- cial post-graduate course in the medical depart- ment of Hamlin University, in Minnesota. After his graduation the Doctor located in Oldham, Kingsbury county, where he was engaged in practice for a few months and then came to Sioux Falls, where he has built up a good prac- tice and where he is held in high regard in both professional and business circles. He is a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and has been active as a worker in the party ranks, hav- ing on several occasions been a delegate to state and county conventions, while he has been called upon to serve in various minor offices of public trust. He is identified with the American Medi- cal Association and the Medical Society of East-
ern South Dakota, while fraternally hc is affili- ated with several secret orders. Dr. Merager was united in marriage to Miss Florence E. Lowe, of Sioux Falls.
HENRY A. MULLER, engaged in the prac- tice of law in the city of Sioux Falls as senior member of the well-known firm of Muller & Conway, is a native of the Badger state, having been born in Cassville, Grant county, Wisconsin. He secured his early educational discipline in the district schools, having continued his studies in the schools at Fort Randall and later attended for a time the State Agricultural College, at Brookings, and the academy at Scotland, Bon Homme county, while he was also a student in the University of South Dakota, at Vermillion. He came to Sioux Falls and began reading law under the preceptorship of Powers & Conway, being admitted to the bar of the state in 1892, since which time he has been engaged in practice in Sioux Falls. He entered into a professional partnership with Daniel J. Conway, and they are still associated in their labors.
Mr. Muller was united in marriage to Miss Alice E. Bassett, who was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. She was graduated in the normal school at Aurora, Illinois, and prior to her mar- riage she had been a successful and popular teacher. She read law and was admitted to the bar of the state, since which time she has been engaged in the active work of her profession in Sioux Falls, having attained success and prestige in her profession.
FRED A. SPAFFORD, M. D., of Flan- dreau, is a native of the old Green Mountain state, having been born in Ludlow, Vermont. He passed his boyhood days in his native town, in whose public schools he secured his preliminary educational training, while he thereafter con- tinued his studies for some time in Black River Academy, in Vermont. He then took a course in medicine, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Shortly after his graduation the Doc-
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tor accepted the position of instructor in Latin in a college in North Carolina, and later he was made a member of the faculty of the Leonard Medical College. Subsequently the Doctor came to the west and located in Flandreau, South Da- kota, where he has since been engaged in the ac- tive practice of his profession. In politics he is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Democratic party and has been an active worker in its cause. He is also prominent in the Masonic fraternity, and is also affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. The Doctor is a member of the Baptist church, while his wife clings to the faith in which she was reared, that of the Con- gregational church.
Dr. Spafford was united in marriage to Miss Hattie Davis, of Boston, Massachusetts, and of this union has been born one child.
BARNEY TRAVERSE was born in Sioux City, Iowa, and was educated in the public schools. He was employed in freighting to the Black Hills and also from Yankton to Fort Pierre, experiencing many hardships and se- vere experiences. In 1900 he was appointed in- structor of farming to the Indians, and since that time has been engaged in stock raising, being quite successful in that line. His ranch is lo- cated at Moreau, while his home is across the river from Evarts.
CORNELIUS TRYGSTAD, of Brookings, was born in Norway, and attended the national schools of his native land. At the age of twenty- one years he accompanied his parents on their immigration to America. They landed in the city of Quebec, Canada, and thence removed to Rochester, Minnesota, from whence they came to the territory of Dakota and took up their abode in what is now Brookings county. Mr. Tryg- stad took up the homestead claim upon which he still maintains his residence, and on his claim he
erected a log house, and bent his best energies to the improvement and cultivation of his ranch. That success has attended his indefatigable ef- forts is clearly evidenced in the appearance of his home place today. He now has four hundred and eighty acres in the home ranch and one hun- dred and sixty acres in Madeira township, while in Moody county he owns two hundred acres, his entire landed estate being conservatively esti- mated at a valuation of forty thousand dollars.
In politics Mr. Trygstad has been a stanch supporter of the Republican party from the time of attaining the right of franchise, and he has been influential in public affairs of a local nature. He was married to Miss Julia Dastad, who like- wise was born in Norway, and they have five children.
GOTTHILF DOERING, of Tripp, Hutch- inson county, was born in the southern part of Russia, and was reared and educated in his na- tive land, being seventeen years of age at the time of the family emigration to the United States. He remained on the homestead farm until the death of his father, after which he went to Edmunds county, where he continued to re- side one year, thereafter securing a clerkship in a mercantile establishment at Ipswich. Soon after the founding of the village of Tripp, Mr. Doering came here and engaged in the general merchandise business until 1901, when he re- moved to Harvey, North Dakota, where he en -- gaged in business until 1902, when he returned to Tripp and purchased a general merchandise business, in which he has since continued.
C. H. BARROW was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and received his educa- after which he attended an academy, graduating tion in the public schools and the high school. therefrom. He went to Redwing, Minnesota, and read law, being in due time admitted to the bar. He began practice at Minneapolis, but soon afterwards located at Ipswich, South Dakota, where he has since been engaged, meeting with
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distinct and gratifying success. He has been honored by election to the state legislature and has served as state's attorney several terms. Fra- ternally he belongs to the Masons, Odd Fellows, Maccabees and United Workmen.
Mr. Barrow was married to Effie L. Haw- kins, and they have two children.
EPHRAIM MINER was born in Oswego, New York, and until eighteen years old re- mained with his parents, enjoying the mean- time the best educational advantages his native city afforded. At the age noted he severed home ties and gave his attention to teaching. After teaching for three successive winter seasons in that state, he taught two terms in Illinois and Minnesota respectively, then returned home and a little later accompanied his widowed mother to Wisconsin, where he clerked for a short time in a store. From the latter place Mr. Miner went to Minnesota and engaged in merchandis- ing, but later returned to Wisconsin and held a clerkship in a business house at Geneva Lake. Resigning his position, he and two companions drove overland to Pike's Peak and devoted his time to prospecting in Colorado. Returning to Wisconsin he entered the employ of the Amer- ican Express Company and-was located at St. Joseph Mission, being transferred from that place to the Chicago division, which he ran one year as messenger. At the expiration of that
time he was promoted to an important and re- sponsible office, which he held until he severed his connection with the company and came to Yankton, Dakota, where for three years he clerked for a hardware firm.
Subsequently Mr. Miner was appointed cen- sus taker of Dakota and in the discharge of his duties as such traveled over nearly the entire ter- ritory. He was elected to the state legislature. in which capacity he served two terms, and la- ter he was returned to the same body two suc- ccssive terms, serving on a number of important committees, besides taking an active part in the general deliberations and taking his proper place as one of the leading Republicans on the floor. Meantime he formed a partnership in the hard- ware business at Yankton, but later he disposed of his interests to his associates, and in the fail of 1876 was elected register of deeds. He later engaged in the cattle business, to which he de- voted considerable attention for a number of years, and became interested in other enterprises, notably among which was the Yankton Pressed Brick Company. Later this business was dis- continued and a flouring mill erected on the site of the works. This mill has since been one of the leading enterprises of Yankton and under the efficient management of Miner & Walker, present proprietors, the business has steadily grown in magnitude and importance until the demand for their brand of flour now exceeds the supply.
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