History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 70

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

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HENRY C. MUSSMAN.

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year. He has been identified with the hotel busi- ness in the town for about nine years, Mrs. Muss- man having assumed the management of the Arlington hotel here about a year prior to his return to Chamberlain. Later they conducted the Tremont and the Merchants' hotels, in turn, and in December, 1898, rented their present building, known as the Mussman house, and this is one of the leading and most popular hotels in the city. no pains being spared in catering to the wants of the traveling public, while Mr. and Mrs. Muss- man are known as the most genial and courteous, as well as capable, hotel folk.

Mr. Mussman has ever been a stalwart Re- publican and has taken an active interest in the party cause. In the fall of 1902 he was elected to represent the seventeenth district in the state legislature, and he is proving an able member of that body. He is identified with Sioux Falls Lodge, No. 262, Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks, and also with the local organizations of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

On the 24th of April, 1879, Mr. Mussman was united in marriage to Miss Mary Takal, of Decorah, Iowa, and they have five children : Mack H., who assists in the management of the hotel and who is secretary of the state fire com- mission ; and Gertrude, Fannie, Charlotte and William, all of whom are at the parental home.

ADELBERT H. BOWMAN, M. D .. one of the popular and able physicians and surgeons of the city of Deadwood, is a native of Rock county, Wisconsin, where he was born on the 27th of October, 1851, being a son of William P. and Charlotte L. (Boynton) Bowman, both of whom were born and reared in the state of New York, the former being a son of Thaddeus Bow- man, who was born in Vermont, of old colonial stock, while the maternal grandfather of the Doc- tor was Ephraim Boynton, who was born in Mas- sachusetts, being a descendant of one of the val- iant minutemen of that state who gave so mate- ial service in the cause of independence during the war of the Revolution. This honored ancestor

was Captain John Boynton, who was born in Rowley, Massachusetts, on the 8th of Septem- ber, 1736, and he held the rank noted during his service in the Continental line. The original American progenitor in the line was John Boyn- ton, who settled in Rowley, Massachustts, in 1638, and Captain John mentioned was of the fifth generation, having been a son of Joseph, who was a son of Joseph, who was a son of Ephraim, who was a son of the original settler in Rowley. The father of the Doctor manifested the same intrinsic patriotism and loyalty during the war of the Rebellion, in which he served as a member of the First Wisconsin Heavy Artillery during the latter part of the great civil conflict. In the spring of 1866 he removed with his family to Osage, Iowa, and he and his devoted wife now reside in Spencer, that state, where they cele- brated their golden wedding in 1897, while both are well preserved in mental and physical vigor, the father, at the venerable age of eighty years, being still actively engaged in the mercantile busi- ness. Of their eleven children eight are still liv- ing, the subject of this sketch having been the third in order of birth.

Dr. Bowman received his early educational discipline in the public schools of Wisconsin, and was about fifteen years of age at the time of the family removal to Iowa, where he continued to attend the public schools until 1869, when he en- tered the Cedar Valley Seminary, at Osage, that state, where he pusued his studies during the win- ter months until 1872. Later he took up the study of medicine under Dr. McAlister, of Spencer, Iowa, and in 1876 entered the renowned Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago, where he completed the prescribed course and was grad- uated on the 25th of February, 1879. receiving his well-earned degree of Doctor of Medicine and coming forth admirably equipped for the work of his chosen profession. He initiated his pro- fessional career in his home town of Spencer, Towa, where he continued in successful practice until 1887. when he came to Deadwood, where he met with success from the start and where he now controls a large general practice as a phy- sician and surgeon. The Doctor is a member of

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the American Medical Association, the lowa State Medical Society, the South Dakota State Medical Society and the Black Hills Medical As- sociation, of which he is president. In politics the Doctor is arrayed as an intelligent and loyal sup- porter of the principles and policies of the Repub- lican party and fraternally he is identified with Central City Lodge, No. 22, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Dakota Chapter, No. 3, Royal Arch Masons; Dakota Commandery. No. 1, Knights Templar ; and Naja Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. At the time of the Spanish-American war the Doctor enlisted as assistant surgeon in the First South Dakota Volunteer Infantry, with which he served ten months in the Philippines, returning to his home in March, 1899.

On the 16th of October, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Bowman to Miss Ida Potter, who was born in West Springfield, Pennsylva- nia, being a daughter of Riley and Hulda ( Aus- tin) Potter, the former of whom was engaged in merchandizing at West Springfield at the time of his death, which occurred in 1884, while his wife passed away in 1900. Dr. and Mrs. Bow- man are the parents of three children, namely : Laura L., Potter and Dorothy.

ALBERT W. COE, one of the honored pio- neers and prominent business men of the city of Deadwood, is a native of Madison county, New York, where he was born on the 14th of August, 1833. being a son of Albert E. and Mary ( Bridge) Coe, both of whom were likewise na- tives of that county, the former having been born in the same ancestral homestead as was the sub- jeet. The grandfather, who bore the name of David Coc, was a native of Middletown, Con- necticut, while the name has been prominently identified with the annals of New England from the carly colonial epoch. The ancestry is traced back in direct line to Roger Coc, who was burned at the stake in England, during the reign of Queen Mary, so commonly known as "Bloody Mary." The original progenitor in America was Robert Coe, who emigrated from the "tight

little isle" to this country in 1634. From one of his three sons the subject of this review is direct- ly descended. A number of representatives of the family rendered valiant service in the cause of independence during the war of the Revolu- tion, and the subject's daughter, Miss Clara D., is thus entitled to and maintains membership in the Daughters of the Revolution. David Coe was a lad of twelve years at the time of his parents' removal from Connecticut to Oneida county, New York, where he was reared to manhood. He married at the age of twenty-one years and there- after removed to Madison county, that state, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits and where he passed the remainder of his life. The father of the subject passed his entire life in that county ; he died in 1887, and his wife passed away in 1844. They became the parents of six sons and three daughters, of whom one of the- sons and one of the daughters are still living.

Albert W. Coe, who was the third child in or- der of birth, was reared to the study discipline of the home farm and secured his education in the common schools of the locality and period. Up- on attaining his legal majority he set forth to seek his 'fortunes in the west. He located in what is now the city of Chicago, where he remained until 1856, when he removed to Milwaukee, Wis- consin, as one of the pioneers of the Cream City. and there continued to make his home for nearly thirty years-until the time of his removal to what is now the state of South Dakota. It may be consistently noted in the connection that a brother of his present wife was the third white child born in that city. Mr. Coe was one of the charter members of the Milwaukee board of trade and was for a number of years prominently iden- tified with the commission business, after which he engaged in the hardware business, in which he there continued until 1883, when he came to South Dakota and located in Deadwood, where he has since maintained his home. Here he be- came associated with J. K. P. Miller in the gro- cery business, of which they continued for some time, then disposing of the enterprise and engag- ing in the real-estate business, of which the sub- jeet assumed control upon the death of his hon-

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ored partner. He has since been identified with this line of enterprise and has been concerned in many important transactions and assisted mate- rially in the developing of the great resources of this section of the state. Mr. Miller, with whom he was so long associated, was the promotor and builder of the Deadwood Central Railroad and the Deadwood street railway, while Mr. Coe was sec- retary of both companies during the building of both systems, while after their completion he held the office of manager until the properties were sold. Mr. Coe is at the present time a member of the Business Men's Club, of Deadwood, and also the Mining Men's Association, while he is a member of the directorate of the Franklin Hotel Company and the Masonic Benevolent Associa- tion. He is one of the prominent and honored members of the Masonic fraternity in the state, and is at the present time treasurer of the lodge, chapter and commandery with which he has af- filiated, while he has attained the thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and is also affiliated with the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In 1897 he had the distinction of serving as grand master of the Masonic grand lodge of the state, and he is at the present time president of the South Dakota Masonic Veteran Association, having been a Ma- son for more than forty years.

On the 13th of July, 1854, Mr. Coe was united in marriage to Miss Emeline Gregg, who, like himself, was born and reared in Madison county, New York, and she died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1857, leaving no children. On the 3Ist of March. 1859, was solemnized the mar- riage of Mr. Coe to Miss Sarah D. Gregg, a daughter of Hendrick Gregg, who removed from Madison county, New York, to Milwaukee, Wis- consin, in 1836, being numbered among the early settlers in that locality and being one of the hon- ored pioneer farmers of the Badger state. Mr. and Mrs. Coe have one son, Albert G., and a daughter, Clara D. The former was born in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, on the 18th of April, 1860. and is now associated with his father in business. On the 18th of September, 1883, he was united in marriage to Miss Agnes L. Foster, who was

born in Racine, Wisconsin, being a daughter of Alfred Foster, who removed thence to Milwatt- kee when she was a child, so that she was reared and educated in the latter city. Of this union was born one child, Alberta, who died in infancy. Albert G. is a member of the Olympian Club, and, like his honored father, has attained the thirty- second degree of Scottish-rite Masonry, while his political faith is that of the Democratic party. The daughter, Clara D., also assists in the man- agement of the business interests of the Coe es- tablishment. She has been active in the affairs of the Order of the Eastern Star and has of- ficiated as worthy matron of the local lodge.

WILLIAM S. ELDER, of Deadwood, is a native of Warsaw, Coshocton county, Ohio, where his birth occurred on the 15th of October, 1858, being the son of John G. and Jane Elder, of Ohio and Pennsylvania respectively. The father, who was also born in the county of Coshocton, still lives there and is a farmer hy occupation ; the mother, who before her marriage bore the name of Jane Moffatt, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, being descended on the father's side from a Revolutionary soldier who in an early day settled in Orange county, New York.

William S. Elder was reared in his native state, and after attending for some years the pub- lic schools entered an academy at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was prepared for college. With this training he became, in 1882, a student of Princeton College, New Jersey, and in due time was graduated from that institution, finish- ing the classical course and receiving his degree in the year 1886, immediately after which he ac- cepted the position of reporter of the New York Commercial Advertiser. After one year in this capacity he resigned his position and in 1887 started for Dakota, arriving at the Black Hills on April 21st of that year, when he at once engaged in journalism, as editor of the Black Hills Week- ly Herald, which paper he published from August to the following December. In 1888 Mr. Elder began reading law at Deadwood in the office of

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Moody & Washabaugh, the leading legal firm of the city, and one year later was admitted to the bar and began the practice of his profession. He soon obtained his share of patronage, built up a lucrative business, achieved the reputation of an able lawyer, and in addition to his legal work, took an active interest in the growth and devel- opment of the city, by encouraging all laudable enterprises calculated to promote these ends. He was elected in 1902 on the citizens' ticket to represent the second ward in the city council, and as a member of that body labored earnestly for the municipality. Mr. Elder was one of the or- ganizers and promoters of the Black Hills Min- ing Men's Association, and, with such associates and co-workers as S. W. Russell, George S. Jack- son, W. J. Thornby, Harris Franklin and R. H. Driscoll, who compose the personnel of the en- terprise, pushed the undertaking to successful issue, being made a director and later secretary and treasurer, which offices he fills at the present time. He was also a leading spirit in organizing and building up the Imperial Gold Mining and Milling Company, which now has the largest dry crushing cyanide plant in the Hills, being presi- dent of the company, also its legal counsel. To Mr. Elder's energy and business-like methods the above enterprises owe much of the success which has characterized their history. Wide- awake, enterprising, full of enthusiasm and opti- mistic in all the term implies, he has demon- strated qualities of leadership and shown himself able to cope with and overcome adverse circum- stances and to carry out successfully and worth- ily any undertaking to which he addresses him- self.

Mr. Elder is positive in opinion, energetic in action, a man of honesty, independence of spirit and great executive ability to manage exten- sive enterprises. He is a Democrat, and since coming west he has been influential in the coun- cils of his party, locally and throughout the state. He was secretary of the county central commit- tee in 1892, and one year later was chosen state committeeman from Lawrence county, in both of which capacities he rendered valuable service.

Mr. Elder is a married man, his wife, who

was formerly Miss Mande Eccles, of Chicago, having borne him one child, a son by the name of Duncan Elder. Mr. and Mrs. Elder are mem- bers of the Congregational church of Deadwood and move in the best social circles of the city.

JAMES C. MOODY, a member of one of the strongest law firms in the state, that of Moody, Kellar & Moody, of Deadwood, is a na- tive of the Hoosier state, having been born in Jasper county, Indiana, on a farm near the town of Rensselaer, on the 3d of January, 1863, while in 1864 his parents came to what is now South Dakota and located in Yankton, the original cap- ital of the territory. He secured his early educa- tional discipline in the public schools of that city. being graduated in the high schools as a member of the class of 1882, and having in the meanwhile learned the printer's trade. Soon after leaving school he came with his father to Deadwood, where he forthwith identified himself with the newspaper business. In 1884 he effected the purchase of the plant and business of the Dead- wood Pioneer, the first paper published in the Black Hills district, being associated in the pur- chase with William H. Bonham, the present pro- prietor. He continued to be identified with the publication of the Pioneer until 1888, when he disposed of his interest in the enterprise. Mr. Moody early became interested in political affairs in the territory, as his father was specially prom- inent in public affairs in the early days, being one of the pioneer members of the bar of the terri- tory. He thus went through the early territo- rial campaigns with his father, ex-Senator Gid- eon C. Moody, concerning whom much specific data is entered within the pages of this publica- tion. After the election of his father to the United States senate, in 1889, the subject left South Da- kota and went to the city of Washington, where he remained for several months as a newspaper correspondent, and thence went to the territory of Oklahoma, where he was for a time engaged in newspaper business, while he also superintend- ed the compilation and publication of the first | statutes of the territory. He next engaged in lit-

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erary work in Kansas City, Missouri, where he also began a careful study of the law, securing admission to the bar of that state in 1893. He then returned to Oklahoma, locating in Perry, where he was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession for three years, at the expiration of which, upon the invitation of his father, he returned to Deadwood to enter the law firm of Moody, Kellar & Moody, of which his father was the senior member. This is one of the leading firms of corporation lawyers in the state and con- trols a very extensive and representative prac- tice. In 1902 the subject was elected to repre- sent Lawrence county in the state senate, serv- ing during the eighth general assembly and prov- ing a valuable working member of the upper house. In politics he is a stanch Republican. Fraternally he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and Black Hills Mining Men's Association. He was married in 1891 to Miss May Willliams, and as a fruit of this mar- riage they have two children, Curtis and Eleanor May.

MALCOLM CHARLES CAMPBELL, of Lead, was born in Brock township, province of Ontario, Canada, December 25, 1849, and is the son of Peter and Catherine ( Macfee) Campbell, the father a farmer, contractor and millwright. When Malcolm was quite small his parents moved to Bruce county, Ontario, and it was in that part of the country that he grew to young manhood on a farm, obtaining the meanwhile a limited ed- ucation by attending a few months of each winter season a school three miles distant from his home. On attaining his majority he went to Marquette, Michigan, where he worked for some time at carpentry, later finding employment in a livery stable, the two kinds of labor occupying his attention until 1873, when he changed his lo- cation to Ishpeming, where he followed contract- ing and building until his removal the same year to Michigamme. From the latter place he subse- quently went to Lance, Michigan, where, in addi- tion to erecting a number of dwellings and other buildings, he constructed during the fall and

early winter of 1873 seventeen miles of road for the government, which being finished, he worked for some time in the Calumet and Hecla mines at Hancock. Later he built twenty-seven resi- dences at Osceola for a mining company. In the summer of 1875 he went to Copper Harbor, where he was employed for some months building homes for another mining company, going from that town the following winter to Oconto, Wis- consin, near which place he worked in a lumber camp until the ensuing spring, when he started for Dakota.

Owing to the trouble then existing in the Black Hills, Mr. Campbell did not complete his journey, but returned to Wisconsin, where until the winter of 1876 he sold a patent right, making the city of Oshkosh his headquarters. The lat- ter part of the above year he returned to Han- cock, Michigan, where he remained until May, 1877, at which time he again turned his face west- ward, reaching Crook, Dakota, on the 25th of June. Immediately after his arrival, he made one of a party of five that started out on a pros- pecting tour, spending about one year in that ca- pacity, during which time the little company trav- eled over a large section of the territory, expe- riencing many interesting vicissitudes and meet- ing with a number of thrilling adventures, also locating several valuable mining properties, which subsequently yielded rich returns. In the winter of 1877 Mr. Campbell located in Dead- wood and resumed his trade, which he followed in that city until the spring following, when he engaged as carpenter and millwright with the Homestake Mining Company at Lead City. After remaining with that large and wealthy corpora- tion until 1886, he resigned his position to take charge of the Campbell Hotel at Lead City, which he had erected three years previously, and which as originally constructed, consisted of fifteen rooms, a capacity entirely inadequate to meet the rapidly increasing demands of the traveling pub- lic. Shortly after assuming the duties of "mine host" he began adding to the building and the improvements continued until the number of apartments increased from fifteen to seventy. He made the Campbell the leading hotel in Lead City,

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spared neither pains nor expense in furnishing it throughout with the latest modern improvements and during the twenty years of his management it became widely and favorably known as a first- class stopping place. As a landlord, Mr. Camp- bell justified the expectations of the most critical and exacting of his numerous guests, being al- ways pleasant and agreeable, and hesitating at no reasonable sacrifice for the entertainment and comfort of those seeking his hospitality.

Mr. Campbell has been an influential factor in the public affairs of Lead since locating in the city, and he is now serving his third term in the common council, having been a member of that body since about 1895. He is a Republican in politics and an active party worker, the success of the local ticket upon divers occasions being largely the result of his untiring efforts in its be- half. His fraternal relations are represented by the Odd Fellows, Elks and Pythian orders, in all of which he has held important official posi- tions.

On the 6th day of July, 1899, Mr. Campbell contracted a matrimonial alliance with Miss Mar- garet Mckinney, a native of Missouri, but at the time of her marriage a resident of the Black Hills. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have an enter- taining family of four children, all sons, their names in order of birth being as follows: Mal- colm P., William A., Walter D. and George Al- bert.

HON. WILLIAM S. O'BRIEN, of the Homestake Mining Company, was born in Ca- lais, Washington county, Maine, on the 25th of February, 1846. When four years old he was taken by his parents to Detroit, Michigan, and in 1855 accompanied the family to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lived until the breaking out the great Rebellion. In August. 1862, although hut a lad of fifteen, young O'Brien enlisted in Company A, Ninth Minnesota Volunteer Infan- try, with which he shared the fortunes and vicis- situdes of war until honorably discharged on the 24th of August, 1865, participating during his period of service in a number of battles and

minor engagements, among the more noted of which were Nashville, Tennessee, siege of Mo- bile, Alabama, Tupelo and Gun Town, Missis- sippi. He was with General Sibley during the In- dian war of Minnesota in the fall of 1862, and the summer of 1863 took part in much of the hard fighting with the savages. At the close of the war he returned to Minneapolis, but after re- maining the following winter in that city, de- cided to go to Montana territory, where he was convinced more favorable opportunities awaited him. Accordingly he procured a wagon and an ox- team, and with his outfit started west, with Hel- ena as an objective point. In due season he reached his destination, and from that time until 1877 he devoted his attention to mining and lum- bering in Montana, Nevada, Washington and Arizona.

From Nevada Mr. ()'Brien came to Dakota and after spending about seven months in the Black Hills, returned to that state, thence in 1880 to Arizona, where he continued variously employed until his removal, in 1883, to Idaho. In 1885 he again returned to South Dakota, and since that time has been almost continuously em- ployed at the celebrated Homestake Mining Com- pany, in the Black Hills, serving in various ca- pacities, such as laborer, miner, sampler, time- keeper, state inspector of mines, shift boss and foreman of the mines, proving in every situation faithful to his every obligation, and at all times making the company's interests his own. His series of continued promotions from the humble position of a common laborer with pick and shovel to the high and responsible station of fore- man of one of the largest and richest mining properties in the world, demonstrate the strong fiber of which the man is made and indicate the confidence and esteem in which he is held by those to whom his services have been rendered.

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History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 70

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