History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 27

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

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The subject of this sketch secured his early education in the common schools of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and as a youth he became identified with the great basic art of agriculture, to which he continued to give active allegiance until 1892. In the spring of 1880 Mr. Hamaker came to South Dakota and took up a homestead claim in McCook county and a tree claim in Miner county. He

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made excellent improvements on both of these properties and continued to reside on his fine homestead until 1892, when he took up his resi- dence in Spencer. In 1894 he here established himself in the furniture and undertaking busi- ness, in which he has since continued.

In politics Mr. Hamaker is an uncompromis- ing advocate of the principles of the Democratic party. In 1891 he was elected a member of the state legislature from his district, being one of the historic "faithful twenty-five," and making a cred- itable record as a conscientious and able legisla- tor. He served several years as a member of the Democratic central committee of McCook county, and has been a member of the state central com- mittee since 1902. Fraternally he is affiliated with Spencer Lodge, No. 126, Free and Accepted Masons, and Salem Chapter, No. 34, Royal Arch Masons.

On the 29th of December, 1881, Mr. Hamaker was united in marriage to Miss Rosa B. Jarver, of Ogle county, Illinois, no children having been born of the union.

STANLEY B. DICKINSON, M. D., is one of the able and popular young members of the medical profession in the state, being success- fully engaged in practice in Watertown, and be- ing held in high regard in professional, business and social circles. The Doctor is a native of the state of Michigan, having been born in Ben- ton Harbor, Berrien county, on the 16th of April, 1871. He is a son of Joseph and Hannah A. (Davis) Dickinson, the former of whom was born in the state of Michigan and the latter in New York. Joseph Dickinson became one of the successful fruit growers in the famous peach belt of Michigan, was a man who commanded une- quivocal confidence and esteem, and died at his home in Benton Harbor in 1888, at the age of fifty-five years, his wife being still a resident of that place. The paternal grandfather of the sub- ject was Robert Dickinson, who was born in Eng- land, whence he came to America as a young man.

Dr. Dickinson received his early educational

training in the public schools of his native place and then entered the Northern Indiana Business Institute, in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890. The following three years he was engaged in manag- ing a fruit farm in his native county, and at the expiration of this period entered the medical de- partment of the State University of Illinois, es- tablished in the city of Chicago, where he com- pleted the prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1897, having passed the intervening summers in further technical study, under the preceptorship of Dr. John Bell. of Benton Harbor. After his graduation, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he held for a short time a position as interne in West Side Hos- pital, in Chicago, thus gaining farther and valu- able clinical experience. He was thereafter en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Chicago for four years, at the expiration of which, in 1901, he came to South Dakota and opened an office in Watertown, where by his energy, ability, devo- tion to his profession and gracious personality he has built up a most gratifying and successful practice. While in Chicago he was for three years clinical instructor on diseases of children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, while he also acted as medical examiner for the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Pru- dential, of Newark, New Jersey, and other lead- ing companies, as well as fraternal insurance or- ders. In politics the Doctor is an uncompromis- ing Republican, taking a lively interest in the questions and issues of the hour. He is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church, and fra- ternally is identified with the Masonic and Pythian orders, and belongs to the District, State and American Medical Associations.

On the 26th of September, 1900, Dr. Dickin- son was united in marriage, in the city of Chi- cago. to Miss Nellie C. Shurtleff, who was born and reared in that city, being a daughter of Bar- zella M. and Mary Ellen (Sibley) Shurtleff, the former of whom was born in Illinois and the latter in Vermont. Mr. Shurtleff has been for many years a prominent commission merchant in Chicago. The Sibleys are of a prominent old

S. B. DICKINSON, M. D.

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family of New England, and related to that re- doubtable Revolutionary hero, General Israel Putnam. Laura Bridgeman, the famous blind mi11te, is also a relative of the family. Mrs. Dickinson is a member of the Woman's Club and is prominent in local social circles, being an ac- complished musician and a woman of gracious refinement. They have one son, Robert Sibley Dickinson.

SUTTON E. YOUNG, a resident of Aurora county, is a native of the old Buckeye state, hav- ing been born in Hiram, Portage county, Ohio, on the 23d of September, 1847, a son of Erastus M. and Christina (Allyn) Young, both of whom were representatives of sterling pioneer families of Ohio. The father was born in 1813, while his death occurred in 1891. his life having been devoted to farming and to contracting and build- ing. His wife died in 1899, at the age of seventy- seven years, and of their three children the sub- ject of this sketch and his brother, Dr. Clark M. Young, a professor in the University of South Dakota, are now living.

Sutton E. Young was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and his early educational · training was received in the public schools, after which he continued his studies in Hiram College, Ohio, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1871. Thereafter he was for five years superintendent of the public schools of Kenton. Ohio. In the meantime he had given careful attention to the study of law, securing admission to the bar of Ohio in 1875. He served as prosecuting attorney of Hardin county, Ohio, for one term and later represented the same county in the legislature of the state. In 1881 Mr. Young came to the territory of Dakota and accepted the superintendency of the public schools of Sioux Falls, remaining in that posi- tion until 1884 and gaining a high reputation as one of the able educators of the state. Later he was successfully engaged in the practice of law in Sioux Falls. He was elected a member of the first legislature of the state of South Dakota in 1889, and had the distinction of being

chosen the first speaker of the house of repre- sentatives. In 1891 he returned with his family to Ohio, where they remained four years, during which time his sons were attending college at Hiram, Ohio. He then returned to South Da- kota and passed the ensuing two years in Rapid City, in the Black Hills, after which he again took up his residence in Sioux Falls, where he remained until 1901, and was then appointed superintendent of the State Reform School at Plankinton, which position he now holds. Mr. Young is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party and has been an effective worker in its cause and one of the leading campaign speakers in the state.

On the 11th of May, 1874. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Young to Miss Emma Stickney, daughter of Cleveland and Abigail (Abbott) Stickney, of Medina county, Ohio. Mrs. Young is a graduate of Oberlin College, Ohio, and has always been prominently identified with educational and philanthropic work. At the time of her marriage she was principal of the high school of Kenton, Ohio. She has also taught in the Sioux Falls high school and in the Sioux Falls College. Mrs. Young has written much on educational themes and at present has editorial charge of the Reform School Item. There are three children in the family, concern- ing whom we enter the following brief record : Allyn A. completed a course of study in his father's alma mater. Hiram College, in Ohio. and then entered the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, to take a post-graduate course, and received the doctor's degree in 1902. He is now professor of economics in the Western Reserve University, in the city of Cleveland, Ohio. Evan E. was educated in Hiram College and in the South Dakota State School of Mines, at Rapid City. When the First South Dakota Regiment was organized for service in the Spanish- American war he entered the regiment as sec- ond lieutenant of Company M, of Rapid City. He served with the regiment in all its campaigns in the Philippines and was promoted to a first lieutenancy and made adjutant of the regiment. When the regiment returned home to be mus-

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tered out, Lieutenant Young remained in the Philippines and accepted a commission as cap- tain in the Eleventh Cavalry, United States Vol- unteers. He was appointed adjutant of the regi- ment and served about eighteen months until the regiment was mustered out March 13, 1901. He then declined a commission as first lieutenant of cavalry. United States army, to enter the law school of the University of Wisconsin. He graduated in the law course in June, 1903, and immediately began the practice of law at Sioux Falls. Gertrude, the youngest of the three chil- dren, is now a student in the University of Wis- consin.

WILLIAM MOORE, who is one of the owners and operators of the Armour Roller Mills at Armour, Douglas county, is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, having been born in the town of Athens, on the 10th of May, 1857, a son of Mark and Ann Moore. He re- ceived his educational discipline in the excellent schools of his native province, where he was en- gaged in business until the year 1881, when he came to the United States and located in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where he resided for two years, at the expiration of which, in 1883. he came to Douglas county, South Dakota, where he established himself in the hardware and agri- cultural-implement business in the town of Grand View, moving to Armour later and be- coming one of the early merchants of the place and building up a most successful enterprise, while he secured a firm hold on the confidence and esteem of the community, so that his busi- ness increased in scope and importance with the development and growth of the village and county. In the year 1901 Mr. Moore disposed of this business and shortly afterward purchased an interest in the Armour Roller Mills, of which he assumed the active management at the time. The output of the mills finds a ready demand in the market, and its products are sold through- out the state, the special hrands of flour manu- factured being the Fancy Patent. the White Rose and the Headlight, all of which have at-

tained a high reputation through South Dakota, being held equal to any brands to be found in any section of the Union. The mills have been equipped with the most modern and improved machinery and accessories, and the most scrupu- lous care is given to every detail of operation, the daily capacity being for the output of fifty barrels. Through the indefatigable efforts and able administrative powers of Mr. Moore the scope of the business has been greatly expanded, and the enterprise is one which is highly appre- ciated and which contributes largely to the in- dustrial prestige of the attractive town of Armour. Mr. Moore is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, and is at the present time a valued mem- ber of the village council. Fraternally he is identified with Arcania Lodge, No. 97, Free and Accepted Masons, of Armour. South Dakota; Mitchell Chapter. No. 16, Royal Arch Masons, and St. Bernard Commandery, No. II, Knights Templar, the latter two affiliations being with the respective bodies in the city of Mitchell.

On the 3d of June, 1891, Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Hattie E. Long, of Cleveland, Ohio, and they are the parents of two fine sons, William A. and Lucius Wells, aged ten and seven, respectively.

BYRON P. JONES, of Prosper township, Davison county, was born on a farm in Rensse- laer county, New York, on the 25th of February, 1855, being the youngest of the three children of Augustus and Margaret (Jones) Jones. His sister, Eudora, is now the wife of N. H. Dum- bolton, of Rockford, Iowa, and his brother, James Irving, is a resident of Rockford, Iowa. When the subject was twelve years of age his parents removed to Wisconsin, and in 1868 they took up his residence in Floyd county, Iowa, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The educational advantages afforded the sub- ject were somewhat limited, being confined to a somewhat irregular attendance in the common schools of New York and Wisconsin. He was thirteen years of age at the time of the removal

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to Iowa, and there he continued to make his home until he had attained manhood, being en- gaged in farm work during the intervening years.

In 1879 he came as a pioneer to South Da- kota, taking up a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres, in what is now Prosper town- ship, Davison county, and later securing a pre- emption claim of equal area, the two tracts con- stituting his present farm, the major portion of which he has brought under a high state of cultivation, while he has erected a substantial dwelling and other good buildings, constructed fences about the place and otherwise brought it up to a model status. He is a Republican in politics and is known as a loyal and public- spirited citizen. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and both he and his wife are valued members of the Presbyterian church, in whose work they take a zealous interest.

On the 21st of March, 1881, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Huldah Emma Colby, who was born and reared in Illinois and who was a resident of Rockford county, Iowa, at the time of her marriage, being a daughter of Eben and Mary Colby. Of this union have been born five children, all of whom are living, namely : Margie, Blanche, May, Ethel and Ella.

OLIVER P. AULD, one of the represent- ative business men of Plankinton, Aurora county, is a native of the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 20th of March, 1855. and when he was a child of two years his par- ents removed westward to Benton county, Iowa, where he was reared to maturity, his educational training having been received in the public schools of Iowa and Illinois. At the age of seventeen years he left school and initiated his independent career, having been engaged in agri- cultural pursuits for a few years thereafter in Towa, after which he engaged in the mercantile business in Vinton, that state, conducting the enterprise for three years, at the expiration of which, in 1883. he came to the territory of

Dakota and took up his residence in Plankinton, Aurora county, where he established a general mercantile business, building up an excellent trade and devoting his attention to the same for four years. He then disposed of his interests in the line and engaged in the abstract business, in which he has ever since continued, having a rep- resentative support and being thoroughly equip- ped for the facile handling of all work involved, while he is known as an expert in the line and as one of the best judges of realty values in this section of the state. In the real-estate depart- ment of his business he has handled most valtt- able properties in various sections of the state, showing marked discrimination in his operations and being recognized as one of the reliable and straightforward real-estate men of the state, while upon his books are always to be found details in regard to most desirable investments. He is at the present time rendering effective service as receiver of the Bank of Plankinton, which went into liquidation in 1900. In politics he is stanchly aligned in support of the principles and policies of the Republican party, in whose interests he has been an active worker, having frequently been a delegate to county and state conventions. For ten years he was chairman of the board of county commissioners, while for four years he was incumbent of the office of president of the village council, ably managing and directing the executive department of the municipal government, while he has also held other village offices, ever manifesting a marked loyalty and public spirit and being one of the representative citizens of the county. He and his wife are prominent and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

On the 4th of October, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Auld to Miss Nellie Hoon, of Vinton, Iowa, and they are the parents of four children, Clarence, Leslie, Glenn and Nellie.

GEORGE T. CHANDLER, one of the pro- gressive agriculturists and stock growers of Douglas county, was born in Fayette county, Ohio, on the Ist of November, 1847, being a son

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of Howell and Martha ( Pace) Chandler. Both parents were born in Virginia, being represent- atives of old and prominent families of the Old Dominion state. Representatives in both the paternal and maternal lines took part in the war of the Revolution, as well as that of 1812, in which latter the paternal grandfather of the subject served as quartermaster. Two of the brothers of the subject were valiant defenders of the Union in the war of the Rebellion. William S. went to the front as a member of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry, while H. T. was a mem- ber of Company A, Thirty-fourth Iowa Volun- teer Infantry, while five cousins were members of the Third Iowa Cavalry during the same great conflict through which the Union was preserved. The honored father of Mr. Reed, who was a miller by profession, died in 1898, aged eighty years, while the mother died in 1881, aged sixty- seven years.

George T. Chandler was, a child of eight years at the time when his parents removed from Ohio to Iowa, locating on a farm in Decatur county, where he received his educational train- ing in the public schools, continuing his studies until lie had attained the age of eighteen years, after which he devoted his attention to the man- agement of a portion of his father's farm until 1880, when he secured a farm of his own in Decatur county, Iowa, where he continued to reside until 1882, when he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and became one of the pioneers of Douglas county. Here he filed claim to a quarter section, where he has since made his home, having made excellent improvements, erecting good buildings, and he has brought the place under a high state of cultivation, his landed estate in the county now comprising one hundred and sixty acres, while in addition to securing large yields of the cereals and other products commonly raised in this section he devotes no little attention to the breeding and raising of high-grade cattle, swine and horses. He is alert and progressive in his business methods and has attained marked success, while he holds the confidence and esteem of the people of the com- munity in which he has so long made his home.

In politics he is an uncompromising advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and has been an active worker in its behalf, having been a potent factor in securing to the same note- worthy victories in Douglas county, though he has never been ambitious for personal prefer- ment in a political way. He has served, how- ever, for six years as a member of the school board of his district, and is always relied upon to lend his aid and influence in support of all measures tending to advance the general wel- fare. He is a member of Armour Lodge, No. 25, Knights of Pythias, at Armour, being past chancellor of the same, while he has represented his lodge as delegate to the grand lodge of the state. He is also identified with the Knights of the Maccabees.

On the 25th of October, 1868, Mr. Chandler was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ellen Chambers, who was born in Jefferson county, Iowa, on the 2d of December, 1847, being a daughter of Daniel and Eliza ( Breniman) Cham- bers, her father having been a pioneer farmer of the county mentioned. He now resides in Kansas, having attained the patriarchal age of eighty-seven years, and having been afflicted with blindness for the past fifteen years. His de- voted wife was summoned into eternal rest in 1894. at the age of seventy-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler are the parents of four children, all of whom remain at the parental home, namely : Marion Austin, Thomas M .. Howell Francis and Cora E.

JAMES GURNAL JONES, one of the pio- neers of Charles Mix county, is a native of the old Empire state of the Union, having been born on a farm in Oneida county, New York, on the 2Ist of April, 1851, a son of William J. and Ann (Wheldon) Jones. The grandparents of the subject were born in Wales, whence they emi- grated to the United States about the year 1812, locating in the state of New York, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The father of our subject was born in Oneida county, New York, and became a prominent farmer near

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Utica, Oneida county, where he died in 1877. James G. Jones received his early educational discipline in the common schools and in an academy at Rome, New York, while he has ever been a wide reader and student of affairs, and is a man of broad and exact information, hav- ing supplemented his early training by system- atic personal application. He continued to as- sist in the work of the home farm until he had attained the age of sixteen years, when, in 1867. he gave rein to his spirit of adventure and came to the west, passing five years in Texas and the Indian territory and gaining much experience in regard to life on the frontier. In 1873 he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and settled in Charles Mix county. In 1879, when the county was organized, Governor How- ard appointed Mr. Jones county commissioner, while in the first popular election, in the fall of the same year, he was elected register of deeds of the county. He was re-elected in 1880, serving for a total of three years, as the first in- cumbent of this office. Four years later he was chosen representative of his county in the first constitutional convention of the south half of the territory of Dakota, but declined to serve, said convention having been held at Sioux Falls. In 1887 he was elected a member of the terri- torial legislature, serving with marked ability and being chosen as his own successor two years later. Prior to the organization of Charles Mix county Mr. Jones and Major Thad S. Clarkson, ex-commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, were rival candidates for the ter- ritorial legislature, and the vote proved to be a tie. Under these conditions Brule county, which gave Mr. Jones a majority, was conveniently thrown out on a technical pretext and his de- feat was thus compassed, this being in the year 1876.

The subject was a stanch supporter of the Republican party until the organization of the Populist party, when he transferred his allegiance to the same, and he has ever since been one of the ablest and most enthusiastic advocates of its cause in the state, while he has been an effective worker in the promotion of its

interests. In 1893 Mr. Jones was the nominee of his party for the state senate, but met defeat by a narrow margin. In 1896 he was elected enrolling and engrossing clerk of the house of representatives. In 1898 he was again the nomi- nee of his party for the state senate, and at this time a gratifying majority was rolled up in his favor, and he proved an able and valued mem- ber of this body. In 1900 he was one of the delegates-at-large from this state to the Peo- ple's party national convention, at Sioux Falls, which nominated Bryan for the presidency and Towne for the vice-presidency. Mr. Jones is a man of strong individuality and marked intel- lectuality, being a close student of the political and economic questions of the hour and being ever fortified in his convictions. He is the owner of a fine landed estate of three hundred and twenty acres, in the Missouri valley district of the county, and is one of the successful farmers and stock growers of this section. Fraternally he is identified with Doric Lodge, No. 93, Free and Accepted Masons, at Platte, which village is fourteen miles distant from his fine farm home.

On the 15th of July, 1877, Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Winifred Mulleague, who was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, whence she came to America at the age of thir- teen years and established her home with her brothers and sisters in Bon Homme county, South Dakota, where she was reared to maturity. As before noted, she was the first white woman to settle in Charles Mix county, where she re- sided almost two years with her husband with- out seeing a person of her sex and race, and her eldest child was the first white child born in the county. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of eight children, all of whom have been ac- corded the best possible educational advantages, their names, in order of birth, being as follows: Whitfield, William James, Mary Laura, Gordon Gurnal, Winifred Ann, Roscoe Conkling, Fran- cis, Wheldon and Emma Lela. Four of the children are successful and popular teachers in the public schools of the county, namely: Whit- field. Mary L., Gordon G. and William J.

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History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 27

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