History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 76

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

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the county central committee at the time of this writing, while he has been a delegate to various state and county conventions of the party. He and his family attend the Presbyterian church.

On the 9th of November, 1879. Mr. Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Emma Haber, a daughter of George and Melissa Haber, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in the state of Ohio, and of this union have been born six children, namely: Walter, who is serving as deputy sheriff ; Bertha is the wife of E. F. McCarl; Arthur, Martha and Horace. who remain at the parental home ; and Harriet. who died at the age of one year.

JAMES G. HOPKINS, of Keystone, was born on January 12, 1870, at Lexington, Mc- Lean county, Illinois, and is the son of Joseph and Louisa (Hemline) Hopkins, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Illinois. In the spring of 1877 the father came to the Black Hills, leaving his family on the farm in Illinois. and arriving at Rockerville in March. He re- ' mained there until the following spring, then lo- cated at Rockford where he engaged in mining and prospecting. In June, 1881, his family joined him at Rockford, and they all lived at that place until the spring of 1885, when he bought a ranch near Custer on which they set- tled. The son had but limited opportunities for schooling, and they were found chiefly at Rock- ford. When he reached the age of thirteen he went to Deadwood and found employment in the mines. By industry and capacity he gradually rose through mine and mill work to the position of amalgamator, and in 1889 went to Hill City in the employ of the Harney Peak Mining and Mill- ing Company. Before the end of the year the parents also moved to Hill City where they have since had their home. Mr. Hopkins worked for the Harney Company two years, and at the end of that period opened a butchering business in part- nership with Mr. Van Allen and under the firm name of Van Allen & Hopkins. At the end of the first year he sold his interest to his partner and went to Oregon under contract with a mining

company operating in the eastern part of the state. Six months later he left the service of this company and returned to Hill City, arriving in November, 1892. He again went to work for the Harney Peak Company and the following spring eame to Keystone as amalgamator in the Keystone mill, a position he held until the fall of 1894. He then engaged with the Holy Terror Company as amalgamator, being the first man employed as such by that company, which was rtorted about that time. Later he worked in the mines until he was disabled by an accident in the spring of 1897, and after recovering from the ef- fects of this he was employed on a hoisting en- gine until June. 1900, when he resigned to take his place as manager of the Haves & Hopkins Supply Company, of Keystone, which he had or- ganized in the preceding October. This company conducts an extensive business in general mer- chandise, and carries as complete a stock of goods as can be found in the city. The volume of its business is large and its patrons are among the best classes of the people. Mr. Hopkins is also interested in the cattle industry in company with his brother on a ranch near Custer, and has some valuable mining property. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Modern Woodman, with member- ship in the hodies at Keystone.

On May 19, 1889, Mr. Hopkins was married at Hill City to Miss May E. Wakefield, a native of Illinois, who died on October 20, 1894. at the birth of her only child, Ira M. On January 3. 1897, he married a second wife at Keystone, Miss Alice A. Hayes, also born in Illinois. They have three children. Earl A., Hazel and Joseph.

JOHN H. LUND, county judge of Day county, and a representative member of the South Dakota bar, is a native of Norway, where he was born March 31, 1859. He was an infant of nine months when his parents, Helge and Inga Lund, came to America. The parents first settled in Columbia county, Wisconsin, from where they removed to Emmet county, Iowa, in 1867. Judge Lund passed through the common schools, and then entered . Luther College at

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Decorah, lowa, where he was graduated in 1884, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1885 he went to Campbell county, South Dakota, and in 1886 he left his claim in that county and went to Aberdeen, and entered the law office of M. 1. Gordon, subsequently chief justice of the state of Washington. After two years as a student in Judge Gordon's office he was admitted to the bar on April 4, 1888. On the 19th of June, 1828. Tudge Lund located in Webster. In 1894 he was elected state's attorney for Day county, and in 1806 was re-elected to the same office. In 1000 he was elected county judge of the county. and was re-elected in 1902, and at the present time is the nominee of the Republican party for another term of the same office.

JOSEPH HARE, owner and editor of the Keystone Republican, a publication devoted to the mining interests of the Black Hills in South Dakota, was born in 1853, at Franklin Center, province of Quebec, Canada, and is the son of William and Alice Hare, natives of Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland. At the age of fourteen Mr. Hare enlisted in the Canada militia, and was at the last Fenian raid at Trout River Lines in 1867. He served in his command seven years, being a first lieutenant at the age of eighteen. He moved to Franklin Grove, Illinois, in 1874, and after a residence of two years at that place, migrated to Boone county, Nebraska, where he passed nine years. He engaged in the newspaper business at Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, owning a one-half interest in the Era of that town. In 1885 he moved to Box Butte county, in that state, and founded the town of Hemingford there, establishing at the same time the Hemingford Gleaner. the first newspaper in the county. In 1880 he located at Hill City, South Dakota. and established the Hill City Tin Miner. He also became postmaster of the town and rendered efficient service to its people in this capacity for four years. In 1895 he located the Bismarck ranch, since which time he has lived on this ranch and at Keystone, purchasing the Recorder at the latter place in 1902. He has always been

a Republican in politics, and has given his party faithful and helpful service from his early man- hood.

On September 11, 1873, at Hemingford, province of Quebec, Mr. Hare was united in marriage with Miss Louisa S. McFce, a native of that town. They have seven children, Donald M., Alicia L .. William, Lyle, Charles, Stella and Madeline.

THE HEGEMAN FAMILY .- The interest- ing pages of American history would not be complete if the biographer failed to mention John, Adrian and Peter Hegeman, the three brothers who, in an early day, came to Dutchess county, New York, from Holland, being direct lineal descendants from William, Prince of Orange. This notable and interesting family were of that stanch and hardy pioneer class who were known well in every community with which they came into touch, for their integrity and simplicity of truthful uprightness. After a limited residence in Dutchess county, they moved into Saratoga and Albany, New York.

Adrian Hegeman, the second brother of this interesting family, was the great-grandfather of the branch of this family now located in South Dakota, and was married to Bashaba Palmer, in New York. His life was spent in canal builling, boating and shipping, and he was the father of eight children, whose names are given in order of their birth: Cornelius, Micah. Peter. John, Esther. Sallie. Peba and Jane, four boys and four girls. The old Dutch burial ground of Clifton Park, New York, contains the remains of both Adrian and Bashaba Hegeman, who died at Half Moon, Saratoga county.

John Hegeman is the grandfather of the Da- kota branch, and was married to Ere Johnson in 1818. By hard labor and careful management they, in time, became known as among the most thrifty of the local families where they then re- sided, having also come from Holland and set- tled in Saratoga, New York, where the fathe-, John Hegeman, was actively engaged in farming, milling and lumbering for a number of years.

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His wife departed this life in the year 1854, and he in the year 1860, in the county of Fulton, New York. The names of the children of John Hege- man are as follows: Peter J., John A. (died in infancy), Margaret (also died in infancy), Car- oline, Hezekiah, Bethsheba, Martha A., Micha and Hannah, nine children in all.

Peter J. was also father of nine children, i Adrian (died in infancy), Magdaline (died in infancy), Eva A., Peter J., Daniel (died in in- fancy, Eva Ann, John A., Jennie, and Sarah C., who is the wife of John H. Hendrecks.

Hezekiah Hegeman was the father of George and Hezekiah, Jr., both of whom reside in the city of Schenectady, New York.

Martha Hegeman was married to James H. Roberts, of Fulton county, New York, and to this union were born the following children: Netta, Minnie, John and Ella. Micah Hegeman is the father of two children, Julia and Roy, now de- ceased, while Hannah, the youngest sister, mar- ried Darius Baker, and to them were born five children, namely: Nellie. Carrie. Bennie, Alice and Hannah.

Peter J. Hegeman is the father of the South Dakota lineage of the Hegeman family, and grew to manhood in the state of New York, where he married Miss Catharine Allen, who was a daugh- ter of Daniel Allen, a native of Scotland. Cath- arine Allen's mother, Magadaline Houghtaling, was what was known as Mowhawk Dutch, of New York, and her mother was a daughter of Lord Etherington.

The Allens came as early settlers into the state of New York and were of Scotch descent. Daniel Allen was one of seven sons, and the Houghtalings are still residents of New York state, and are a thrifty and well-to-do people.

Peter J. Hegeman was married in Perth. New York, and afterwards settled in Glovers- ville, the same state, engaging actively in the occupations of farming and manufacturing, in which city he lived until 1864, when he moved to Sparta, Wisconsin, and there again engaged in manufacturing until the year 1878. when he moved to Brookings county. South Dakota, and settled eight miles east of where the town of

White is now located, taking up one hundred and sixty acres of land as a homestcad. and also a tree claim, remaining upon said land and culti- vating it for eight and one-half years, after which time he moved to White and there lived a retired life until the year 1892, in which year his wife Catharine passed away upon the 27th day of May. His home having been broken by the hand of death, he then removed to the town of Brookings and made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Eva A. Wright, where he died, October 16, 1000.

Peter J. Hegeman was a man who lived an upright, honorable life, and was well spoken of by his fellow citizens, thus going down to his grave in peace, and showing that the ancestral teaching of the Hegeman family, which tena- ciously clung to the religion of the Methodist Episcopal church, had not been taught to him in carly childhood in vain. The above statements will. however, only appear too modest when we state that under urgent and peculiar circum- stances Peter Hegeman walked to Brookings, twenty-three miles, in order to be present and to aid in the organization of a Masonic lodge in that place, he having previously became a member of the above order in Gloversville, New York, in the year 1860.

CLARENCE A. BARTLETT, editor and publisher of the daily and weekly Capital Journal, at Pierre, was born in West Vienna, Oneida county. New York, on the 20th of June, 1859. and is a son of Aldis and Mary ( Chisholm) Bartlett, the former of whom was born in Ver- mont, of English descent, while the latter is of Scotch ancestry and was born in the state of New York, where their marriage was solemnized. The Bartletts were numbered among the early Pur- itan settlers of the New England colonies, and the great-grandfather of the subject of this re- view was a soldier in the Continental line during the war of the Revolution and was a brother of Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declara- tion of Independence. The Chisholm family was established in America in the early part of the

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nineteenth century, the founders of the same in the new world having come hither from Scotland. In 1865 Aldis Bartlett removed with his family to Minnesota and located in Fillmore county, where he and his wife still maintain their home, being numbered among the honored pioneers of that section.

The subject of this sketch received his early educational training in the public schools of Fill- more county, having completed a course in the grammar school at Preston, and having thereafter been a student in Curtis College, in the city of Minneapolis. In 1880, when twenty-one years of age, he came to what is now the state of South Dakota and became ticket agent and cashier for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at Pierre, while in the same year, as deputy county treas- urer, he opened the first set of books for Hughes county. In 1886 he was transferred to the city of Deadwood as agent for the Fremont & Elkhorn Railroad and the Northwestern Express, Stage & Transportation Company, remaining a resident of that city until 1800, and having in the mean- while accumulated a nice sum through judicious speculations in mining properties. In the year last mentioned he returned to Pierre, and here made notable investments, having erected two substantial business blocks and also other build- ings and thus identifying himself permanently with the capital city. In 19oo he effected the pur- chase of the Capital Journal, which was es- tablished in 1881, being the oldest paper in this section of the state, as previously noted, and of this he has ever since continued as owner. pub- lisher and editor, both the daily and weekly edi- tions being models in their line and exerting mtich influence in local and state affairs of a public nature. In polities Mr. Bartlett has ever been a radical adherent of the Republican party. in whose cause he has rendered most effective service in a personal way and through the medium of his paper. In January, 1893, he was appointed deputy county treasurer, in which capacity he continued to serve for eight con- secutive years, while in November, 1900, he was elected treasurer, being chosen as his own suc- cessor in the election of November, 1902, so that

at the time of this writing he has been con- secutively identified with the administration of the fiscal affairs of the county for the long period of twelve years. Fraternally he is a member in good standing of the local organizations of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

On the 15th of September, 1894. Mr. Bartlett was united in marriage with Miss Elsie M. Glea- son, who was born in the city of Chicago, Il- linois, on the 2d of December, 1871, being a daughter of Alonzo and Sarah Gleason. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have six children, namely : Aldis, Eveline, Elsie, Elwin, Cora and Ella.

TRUELS MADSEN, an extensive and suc- cessful stock grower of Stanley county, but who maintains his home in the city of Pierre, is a na- tive of Kokling, Denmark, where he was born on the 14th of December, 1850, being a son of Law- rence and Magedlene Madsen, the former of whom devoted his attention to a woolen mill in the fatherland until 1860, when he came to Amer- ica, in company with his wife, and located in Yankton, territory of Dakota, where he engaged in the stock business, remaining a resident of that county until 1882, when he joined his only son, the subject of this sketch, in whose home he passed the remainder of his long and useful life, his death occurring in 1894. His devoted wife passed away in 1898, and of their two children one is yet living, being a resident of America.

Truels Madsen received his early educational training in his native land, where he remained until he had attained the age of twenty-two years. when he came to America and joined his father. arriving in Yankton on the 12th of August, 1872. Shortly afterward he initiated his independent career, though he was hardly more than a boy at the time. He located on the James river, in Hudson county, where he took up land, and in that locality he continued to be actively en- gaged in farming and stock raising until the spring of 1881, his energy and good management bringing him due success. He then came to Pierre, where he has since made his home and

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headquarters, though he passes much of his time on his ranch, which is located twenty-two miles to the west of Pierre, on the Bad river, so that an ample supply of water is afforded. He runs from one to two thousand head of cattle, principally graded Hereford, while he also has a large band of sheep upon the ranch each season, while he raises draft and road horses in large numbers. He is a man of strong individuality, and his genial and generous qualities are in harmony with his sturdy physique, the significance of this statement being patent when we note that he weighs two hundred and thirty-five pounds. Fra- ternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees.

On the 14th of December. 1870, was solem- nized the marriage of Mr. Madsen to Miss Caroline ME. Olson, who, like himself, was born in Denmark and who accompanied him on his emigration to America. Of this union have been born eleven children, and the family circle has not been broken by the hand of death. The names of the children in order of birth, are as follows: Kruse, Marie. Hannah, Laura, Mar- garet. Nellie. Lawrence, Christenia, Allis, Car- rie and Truels.

RICHARD W. MATHIESON, one of the prominent and honored citizens of Fort Pierre, Stanley county, was born in Colesburg, Delaware county, Iowa, on the 5th of August. 1849, and is a son of Robert and Ann (Wood) Mathieson, the former of whom was born in Scotland, where records extant trace the lineage back through thirty-four generations, while the latter was born in England. The father of the subject was killed in the Indian massacre at Spirit Lake. Iowa, in 1857, his devoted wife surviving him by several years. The subject came with other mem- bers of the family, including his widowed mother, to the territory of Dakota in the spring of 1862, settling first in Bon Homme county and remov- ing thence, in the fall of the same year, to Yank- ton, which was the family home for several years, Mr. Mathieson having completed his early educational training in the public schools of that 29-

city. In 1863 he entered upon an apprenticeship at the printer's trade in the office of the Union and Dakotan, a paper published in Yankton, and on the 20th of February of the following year he enlisted in Company B, First Dakota Cavalry, of which William Tripp was captain, and in the same year accompanied his regiment on the expedi- tion to the Yellowstone river. under General Sully. In 1865 he took part in the expedition to Devil's Lake, and was mustered out of the service in November of that year, at Sioux City. There- after he was for some time employed at his trade, and also identified with early surveying work in the territory. Thereafter he conducted a wood yard and farmed and freighted four miles below Yankton for about five years. In the spring of 1871 he went to Colorado, where he was engaged in prospecting and mining during the major portion of the next eighteen months. In 1873 he made a trip up the Missouri river with a mule-team and assisted in the erection of Fort Lincoln, and in 1874 had charge of the sutler's teams in General Custer's expedition to the Black Hills. There he panned out about fifty cents, in gold dust, which he brought back with him, the amount being sufficient to prove to others that gold was to be found in that section. In September, 1874, he was associated with an- other man in the building of a skiff. in which they came down the Missouri river from Bismarck to Yankton. In March, 1875, Mr. Mathieson went to the Black Hills with a stock of merchandise, and disposed of the same, returning to Yankton in the fall. He then purchased teams and en- gaged in freighting to the Black Hills, making the enterprise a most profitable one and continuing the same until 1882, when he disposed of his outfit and purchased a stock of general merchan- dise in Fort Pierre, in company with his brother, George D., while they also purchased a bunch of cattle and engaged in the raising of stock. After two years the partnership was dissolved, the subject taking the cattle while the brother re- tained the store as his share. In 1887 our subject removed his cattle to the range on the Cheyenne river, and when the reservation of that name was opened up he took up his residence in Fort Pierre,

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where he has since maintained his home, while simultaneously he removed his cattle to a ranch at the Bad river, at the mouth of the Grindstone river, where he has since continued to be engaged in stock growing on an extensive scale. Mr. Mathieson has ever taken a deep interest in the civic and material development and progress of the state of which he is a sterling pioneer. He served one term as a member of the board of commissioners of Stanley county and one term as mayor of the city of Fort Pierre. Fraternally he is affiliated with the following named bodies : Hiram Lodge, No. 123, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, at Fort Pierre; Pierre Chapter, No. 22, Royal Arch Masons, in the capital city of the state; De Molay Commandery, No. 3, Knights Templar, in Yankton ; and Lodge No. 75, Ancient Order of United Workmen, at Fort Pierre.

On the 28th of August, 1884, Mr. Mathieson was united in marriage to Miss Clara B. Pratt, who was the adopted daughter of David Pratt. She was born in Anoka, Minnesota, on the 14th of March, 1862, and is a daughter of Jonathan L. and Emily Nash, who died when she was a child. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Mathieson we enter the names, with respective dates of birth: Maud E., July 28, 1886; Kenneth W., June 19, 1890 ; Donald E., December 19, 1897.

FRED. W. DRICKEN, an able and repre- senative member of the bar of South Dakota, be- ing now engaged in the practice of his profession in White. Brookings county, is a native of the state of Wisconsin, having been born in West Bend, Washington county, on the 2d of Septem- ber, 1875, and being a son of William and Caro- line (Seibert) Dricken. William Dricken came to South Dakota and located in Brookings county, as a pioneer.

Judge Dricken was a child of about three years at the time of his parents' removal to this state, and he passed his boyhood days on the homestead farm, in Afton township, where he secured his preliminary educational discipline in the district schools, later continuing his studies

in the public schools of White, which he attended until he had attained the age of sixteen years. In 1893 he entered the Northern Indiana Normal School, at Valparaiso, Indiana, from which in- stitution he received the degree of Bachelor of Science.

He was educated in the law, in the law de- partment of the celebrated University of Michi- gan, at Ann Arbor, and was admitted to the bar of South Dakota, September, 1897, and forth- with established himself in the practice of his profession in White. His intrinsic loyalty and patriotism, however, soon led him to lay aside for a time the work of his profession, for in the spring of the following year he enlisted as a private in Company G, First South Dakota Vol- unteer Infantry, with which he shortly afterward proceeded to the Philippine Islands, where he remained in service for the following eighteen months. He was twice promoted for bravery and meritorious service and was recommended for a third promotion, having been mustered out with the rank of sergeant. He participated in all the engagements in which his regiment took part, and with the others of his command made a record which reflects lasting honor upon his state. He returned to his home in the autumn of 1899 and the next day after his arrival reopened his office in White and resumed the work of his pro- fession, in which he has been eminently success- ful, gaining a prestige which many an older prac- titioner might well envy. He now practices before the United States district and circuit courts and has presented not a few important cases in the former. In 1900 he was elected county judge, and so ably exercised his functions on the bench that he was chosen as his suc- cessor in the fall of 1902, for a term of two years, so that he remains in tenure of the dig- nified and responsible office at the time of this writing. Politically the judge was reared in the faith of the Republican party, and he has never wavered in his allegiance to the same, while he has taken an active part in furthering the party cause and has been a delegate to various state, congressional and county conventions. He is affiliated with the Masonic order and with the

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History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 76

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