History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 87

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 review was reared on the old homestead farm and his early educational ad- vantages were those afforded in the common schools. He was married at the age of twenty years and then took charge of the home farm,

where he remained until the spring of 1883, when he came to the territory of Dakota and located in the village of Lafoon, which was later made the county seat of Faulk county, South Dakota. In 1886 the line of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad was completed through Faulkton, and the same year the subject was elected sheriff of the county. The county seat was removed to Faulkton in the following year, and Mr. Cham- berlain naturally transferred his residence to that place. In 1888 he was re-elected to the shrievalty, thus serving for two consecutive terms. After re- tiring from office he was engaged in contracting for one year, and in 1892 engaged in the general merchandise business in Faulkton. Two years later he closed out his interests in this line, and he was thereafter engaged in the hotel business in the town until June 1, 1901, when he rented his hotel property to enter upon the duties of his present office. He has been one of the leading figures in the Republican party councils in the state, having served two terms as a member of the state central committee, and in May, 1902. he was appointed to his present office as govern- ment agent at the Crow Creek Indian reservation, where he is rendering most satisfactory service. He is a member of Faulkton Lodge, No. 95, Free and Accepted Masons: Faulkton Chapter. No. 30. Royal Arch Masons; Lacotah Commandery. No. 6. Knights Templar ; and El Riad Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine, at Sioux Falls.

On the 20th of November, 1876, Mr. Cham- berlain was married to Miss Ada S. Marvin, of Union Center, Wisconsin, and of their seven chil- dren three are living, namely: Iva, who is the wife of Rude H. Sands, of Belvidere, Illinois ; and Josie F. and Vera, who remain at the pa- rental home.

ALMON CASE WHITBECK, of Cham- herlain, is a prominent figure in financial circles in the state, being a member of the firm of Case & Whitbeck, bankers of Chamberlain and Oa- coma, and being individually engaged in the banking business at Kimball, this state. He was

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born in Sodus, Wayne county, New York, on the 3d of May, 1864, and is a son of Cornelius A. and Mary M. (Case) Whitbeck, whose four living children are as follows: Minnie L., the wife of W. G. Wallace, of Albion, Michigan ; James, paymaster's clerk in the United States navy and now stationed on the island of Guam ; Anna E., who remains at the parental home ; and Almon C., the subject of this sketch. The par- ents were likewise born in Sodus, New York, be- ing representatives of sterling pioneer families of that state, and there they still maintain their home. The parental grandparents were of the old Knickerbocker stock, and were born in Co- lumbia county, New York, on the Hudson, where their respective parents settled upon coming from Holland. The father of the subject devoted his active life to agricultural pursuits and has lived retired for the past three years. The maternal grandfather was born in New England and his wife was of Holland Dutch extraction.

The subject of this sketch was reared on the homestead farm and after completing the curric- ulum of the district schools continued his studies in Sodus Academy and in the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, at Lima, New York, where he com- pleted a scientific course, being graduated as a member of the class of 1882. He then went to Poughkeepsie, New York, and was there gradu- ated in the Eastman Business College, after which he accepted a position as city editor of the Poughkeepsie Daily News, being retained in this capacity until after the consolidation of the paper with the Evening Press, under the name of the Daily News-Press. His duties in the connection were arduous and exacting, and his health be- came so much impaired that he resigned his posi- tion in the autumn of 1883. After recuperating from a serious illness he came west to Iowa and entered the employ of his uncle, Almon G. Case, working in his banking houses in Charles City and Nashua. In September, 1884, Mr. Whitbeck came to Chamberlain, South Dakota, where he be- came the first bookkeeper of the First National Bank, ill health compelling him to resign the po- sition about six weeks later, whereupon he re- turned to his home in New York and passed a

year on the home farm. being thus enabled to re- gain his health. In January, 1886, he came to Kimball, South Dakota, and secured the position of cashier in the Henry & Case Bank, gradually working himself up in the business and eventually purchasing the interest of Mr. Henry in the insti- tution, of which he became sole owner in 1895, by acquiring the interest of Mr. Case, his uncle. This bank was established in 1883 and is still conducted by our subject. its affairs being in a most prosperous condition and being conducted under state supervision. In June, 1897, Messrs. Case and Whitbeck opened a private banking in- stitution in Oacoma, and in August, 1901, became associated in the establishing of the Case & Whit- beck Bank in Chamberlain, our subject being thus identified with three substantial and popular bank- ing institutions in the state and being known as an able and discriminating financier, while his course has been such as to ever commend him to popular confidence and esteem. In politics Mr. Whitbeck is a stanch Democrat, and while never a seeker of public office he served as mayor of Kimball, while since taking up his residence in Chamberlain he has served as a member of the board of aldermen. He is a member of Castle Lodge, No. 10, Knights of Pythias, of which he is chancellor commander.

On the 23d of May, 1888, Mr. Whitbeck was married to Miss Emily May Pomeroy, of Nashua, Iowa, and they are the parents of two.children, Clarence A. and Laura M. Mrs. Whitbeck was born at Greenwood, Iowa, September 1, 1865, the daughter of George A. and Catharine Pomeroy. She affiliates with the Episcopal church, which her husband and children also attend.

RUSSELL G. PARMLEY, senior member of the well-known firm of R. G. Parmley & Brother, dealers in coal, coke, fire brick, clay, lime and cement, sewer pipe, pressed brick, etc., in the city of Sioux Falls, with headquarters at 201 Second avenue south, is one of the representative business men of the city, where he has main- tained his home for a quarter of a century, his business career having closely followed the indus-

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trial development of the town, of which he may consistently be termed a pioneer, while he com- mands the confidence and regard which are the invariable concomitants of sterling integrity and straightforward business methods.

Mr. Parmley was born on a farm in Rock county, Wisconsin, on the 13th of March, 1851, being a son of Ira and Aurora E. (Austin) Parm- ley, both of whom are now deceased, while of their seven children five are living. The subject was reared to the wholesome discipline of the farm and received his early educational training in the common schools of his native county, in- cluding a course in the high school in Janesville. He continued to be associated with the manage- ment of the old homestead farm until he had at- tained the age of twenty-five years, when he es- tablished himself in the grain business in Foot- ville, Wisconsin, where he continued operations until 1878, when he came to the territory of Da- kota and located in what was then the village of Sioux Falls, where he engaged in the coal and wood business. His energy and good manage- ment made the venture a successful one from the time of its initiation, and three years later he ad- mitted his brother Harry to partnership. Since that time the enterprise has been consecutively conducted under the firm name of R. G. Parmley & Brother, while its scope has been expanded materially and the business controlled has become a large and important one in the various lines of products handled, while special attention has been given to the building of cement walks, in which line they are numbered among the leading con- tractors in the city. Mr. Parmley was one of the organizers of the Union National Bank, of which he was vice-president until the time of its closing business. He was elected president of the old Commercial Club, which accomplished excellent work in exploiting the attractions and resources of the city and state, and he is at the present time president of the Dakota Club, a strong and val- ucd business and social organization. He is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and while not ambitious for public office his loyalty to his home city has been such that he has consented to serve as a

member of the city council and also of the board of education. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, in which he has attained the chivalric degrees, being affiliated with Cyrene Commandery, Knights Templar.

On the 25th of December, 1872, Mr. Parm- ley was united in marriage to Miss Fannie A. Dann, of Center, Rock county, Wisconsin, and they have two sons, Arthur L. and Frank G.

DANIEL BRUNER GETTY, of Sioux Falls, was born in Providence Square, Montgom- ery county, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of Febru- ary, 1865, and is a son of David Todd Getty, who was likewise born in the old Keystone state, the lineage being of German and Irish extraction. When our subject was about two years of age his parents removed to Iowa, and in the public schools of Belle Plain, that state, he received his early educational discipline. In the spring of 1885 he secured a clerkship in the office of the Iowa Mutual Benefit Association, an assessment life- insurance company, at Toledo, Iowa, where he remained until the autumn of 1886, when he came to Sioux Falls, to enter the employ of the Fargo Insurance Company, fire underwriters. In the spring of the following year he accepted a clerical position in the office of Hon. Nyrum E. Phillips. register of deeds of Minnehaha county, and he continued to be thereafter identified with the work of the register's office during the major portion of the time until the spring of 1893, hav- ing had practical control of the abstract depart- ment of the office during this interval. In the spring of the year mentioned Mr. Phillips was appointed warden of the South Dakota state pen- itentiary, in Sioux Falls, and the subject of this sketch was appointed clerk in the same institu- tion, and both retained these respective offices until May 10, 1899, when they resigned, owing principally to the fact that a Populist governor had been clected the preceding autumn. Mr. Getty has been successfully established in the abstract business since August 27, 1899, and his long experience in connection with the practical work of the office of register of deeds has made

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his judgment in regard to real-estate in this sec- tion authoritative, and he has gained a high repu- tation for accurate, neat and altogether admirable abstract work, while this fact, as coupled with his personal popularity, has gained to him a distinct- ively representative support. In politics Mr. Getty is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party, in whose cause he takes a lively interest, and fraternally he is af- filiated with the local organizations of the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Both he and his wife hold membership in the Congre- gational church.

On the 27th of June, 1899, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Getty to Miss Blanche I. Metcalf, who was born at Lake Benton, Minne- sota, on the 27th of June, 1873, being a daughter of Edward S. and Anna Metcalf.

RT. REV. WILLIAM H. HARE .- The Protestant Episcopal church has ever retained in her far-reaching service and manifold works for the uplifting of humanity the consecrated effort of the most zealous and self-abnegating devo- tees. No privations, no obstacles, no dangers have been sufficient to deter her emissaries from carrying the gospel of the divine Master to the furthermost corners of the earth, doing good to all those "in any ways afflicted or distressed in mind, body or estate." Naught but honor and reverence can be accorded to those who thus give their lives to the church and to humanity, and it is insistent that dne record be entered in this con- nection concerning the labors of the present mis- sionary bishop of the state of South Dakota, the sketch in hand being more of a personal nature, since in the generic history in this publication appears an article outlining the progress of the church work in this field.

William Hobart Hare was born in the city of Princeton, New Jersey, on the 17th of May, 1838, being a son of Rev. George Emlen Hare, D. D., and Elizabeth Katherine (Hobart) Hare. the former of whom was born in the state of Penn-

sylvania and the latter in that of New York. Dr. Hare was for many years a professor in the divinity school of the Protestant Episcopal church in Philadelphia, and was a prominent member of the Old Testament committee for the revision of the English version of the Bible, be- ing a man of noble character and high intellectual attainments. The American branch of the Hare family settled in the city of Philadelphia in 1778, and the subject of this sketch is a grandson of the famous Bishop Hobart, of New York, and a great-grandson of Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, whose name is one of prominence in connection with the colonial history of our na- tion. The founder of the Hobart family in the new world was Edmund Hobart, who came hither from Bingham, Norfolk county, England, in 1633, and who founded the town of Bingham, Massachusetts .. 'He had eight sons and six of the number were graduated in Harvard College, the newly established university of the colony. Five of them entered the ministry, a profession which had attracted a number of representatives of the family in England, the late Earl of Buckingham- shire, a member of the family, having been a member of the clergy of the established church of England as well as a peer of the realm.

Bishop Hare was educated in the Episcopal Academy in the city of Philadelphia and in the University of Pennsylvania. He then began the work of preparing himself for the ministry of the church which his honored father had so signally served, entering the Episcopal Divinity School, in Philadelphia, of which his father was at the time the executive head. Here he completed his ecclesiastical studies and on the 19th of June, 1859, received deacon's orders at the episcopal hands of Bishop Bowman, of the diocese of Pennsylvania. While in the diaconate he served as assistant to the rector of St. Luke's parish, Philadelphia. After two years he became rector of St. Paul's, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.

He was married on the 30th of October, 1861, to Mary Amory Howe, a daughter of Rev. Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe, who subsequently be- came bishop of the diocese of Central Pennsyl- vania. She died a few years after marriage,

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leaving one child, Hobart Amory Hare, who is a member of the faculty of Jefferson Medical College, in the city of Philadedphia, and the att- thor of well-known medical works. In 1862 the subject of this sketch received the full holy orders of the priesthood, having been ordained by Bishop Alonzo Potter, in St. Paul's church, Chestnut Hill. Resigning that cure on account of the illness of his wife, he took charge for a year as locum tenens of St. Luke's, Philadelphia. In 1864 he was chosen rector of the Church of the Ascension and served in this capacity until 1870. when he was appointed secretary and general agent of the foreign committee of the board of missions of the Episcopal church. In October, 1871. the house of bishops elected him mission- ary bishop of Cape Palmas and parts adjacent, in west Africa. The house of deputies, however. represented that his services were invaluable in and the house of bishops withdrew the nomina- tion mentioned. On All Saints' day, November. 1872, the house of bishops again elected him bishop, with the title of missionary bishop of Niobrara, a district in the territory of Dakota, and one inhabited at that time chiefly by wild Indians. After somewhat of hesitation Bishop Hare accepted the appointment and was conse- erated in St. Luke's church, Philadelphia, on the 9th of January, 1873. receiving simultaneously the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Trinity College, Hartford, and Kenyon College, Ohio, while Columbia College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology.

the office of which he was at the time incumbent, [ of the state, where he has served as bishop for

seemed an almost unmanageable field, but he be- southern edge of the city of Sioux Falls on a

The wilderness assigned to the young bishop took himself to tent life and traveled over the wild country and, having thus made himself fa- miliar with it, he gradually divided it into ten de- partments and placed a clergyman of ability and fidelity in charge of each of these departments and the missionary work soon fell into shape and was carried on with comparative easc.

The development of South Dakota and its final admission to statehood led to a slight change in the territory assigned to his jurisdic- tion, and in 1883 his title was changed to mis- sionary bishop of South Dakota, and he chose

Sioux Falls as the see city of his missionary dio- eese. He has labored with all of zeal and earn- estness and has infused vitality into all depart- ments of church work in his diocese, while he has been aided and encouraged by the hearty and faithful co-operation of his clergy and his people. It has been his to watch the progress of the church in South Dakota from its inception, ever keeping pace with the onward march of the years as they have fallen into the abyss of time. He has guided the des- tinies of his church with a hand made strong by power from on high, and with the power which came to steady the hand has also come the divine light to illume the way. In pol- itics the Bishop gives his allegiance to the Repub- can party, jealously maintaining "the right of scratch," and fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order. He has witnessed the rise thirty-two years, is loyal to it and its people and has the sincere respect and affectionate regard of all with whom he has come in contact as a church man and as a citizen.

The Bishop was quite alive to the intelligent character of the leading people coming into the newly formed state, and to the educational priv- ileges they had left behind them in their old homes. It was for this reason that the well- known institution. All Saints' School, was pro- jected and laid before the people of Sioux Falls. They cordially responded and subscribed toward the proposed institution in cash and land ten thousand dollars. The school occupies high ground at the head of the main street on the five-acre tract. A large part of the ground slopes off from the building towards the town in a beautiful lawn adorned by shrubs and fine shade trees. On all sides streets sixty-six feet wide isolate and protect the school. In the midst of the grounds stands the building itself, marked by striking architectural features. The school has the patronage of many influential people of the state. The Bishop has apartments in the east- ern end of the building and makes his home with the family and the institution is a fit culmination of his work.

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SAMUEL H. JUMPER, of Aberdeen, , and state of his adoption. He opened the first Brown county, was born in New Gloucester, general store in the town, and in 1883 organized Maine, on the 24th of October, 1844, and his par- ents, John and Mary (Tufts) Jumper, were likewise born in that state, where they passed their entire lives, the father having been a farmer by vocation, while both he and his wife were of English genealogy.

Samuel Henry Jumper received his early ed- ucation in the common schools of his native state, where he was reared to manhood. At the out- break of the war of the Rebellion he, in Septem- ber, 1861, enlisted in Company K, Tenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, with which he proceeded to the front and served until the expiration of his term, in the summer of 1863, when he re-enlisted in Company K, Twenty-ninth Maine Veteran Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until July, 1866, when he received his honorable dis- charge, having been sergeant major of lis regi- ment during the last year. He took part in the battles of South Mountain, Winchester, Cul- peper, Antietam, South Mountain, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and many other engagements and skirmishes of somewhat less importance. In the battle of Cedar Creek he received a severe wound and was there promoted for meritorious conduct on the field of battle. In 1864 his regiment went with Banks on the famous Red River expedition. Mr. Jumper had the distinction of taking part in the grand review of the victorious armies in the city of Washington after the Union arms had been crowned with victory, and thereafter his regiment continued in service for one year in South Carolina. He retains a deep interest in his old comrades in arms and signifies the same by his affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic.

In 1866 Mr. Jumper removed to the state of Minnesota and in 1871 became manager of the Nicollet hotel in the city of Minneapolis, where he remained in this capacity until the spring of 1881, when he came to South Dakota and became the first settler on the town site of Aberdeen, with whose development and material upbuilding he has been prominently identified, ever showing a loyal and public-spirited interest in the city

the First National Bank of Aberdeen, of which he continued to be the president from that time forward until 1898, when he resigned. In 1897 President Mckinley appointed him postmaster of the city, of which office he remained incumbent four years, while at the present time he is serv- ing as deputy postmaster. He is a stalwart Re- publican in politics and has wielded no slight in- fluence in its local councils and work. He was mayor of the city in 1893-4 and also served sev- eral terms as a member of the board of aldermen, and also as a member of the board of education. He is one of the prominent members of the Ma- sonic fraternity in the state, having attained the thirty-third and highest degree in the Scottish- rite Masonry. He was the first commander of Damascus Commandery. No. 10, Knights Tem- plar, of Aberdeen, which was organized in 1888, and in 1891 had the distinction of serving as grand commander of the grand commandery of Knights Templar of the state, while at the pres- ent time he is grand high priest of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons of South Dakota. He attends the Protestant Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Jumper is a communicant.

On the 9th of February, 1874. at Portland, Maine, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Jumper to Miss Ella May Hilt, who was born in Warren, that state, on the 3Ist of July, 1855. being a daughter of John and Nancy ( Toner) Hilt.

JAMES MARSHALL LAWSON. who is engaged in the practice of the legal profession in the city of Aberdeen, is a native of the Old Dominion state, having been born in Virginia, on the 5th of January, 1863, his father, Rev. Orr Lawson, D. D., having been at that time a mis- sionary in that section, in the interests of the Presbyterian church, and was compelled to leave the south a few weeks after the birth of the sub- ject by reason of the animosity of the southern people, the war of the Rebellion being then in progress. The father of the subject was born

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in western Pennsylvania, as was also his wife, whose maiden name was Mary E. Marshall, and to the old Keystone state they returned upon leaving Virginia. Rev. Orr Lawson has long been a distinguished clergyman of the Presby- terian church and is now residing in Iowa, hav- ing attained the venerable age of seventy-five years, while his noble and devoted wife was sum- moned into eternal rest on the 17th of February, 1903, at the age of sixty-six years. Of their four children, two are yet living. The original progenitors of the Lawson and Marshall fami- lies in America came from the north of Ireland and the north of England in the colonial days, and both settled in western Pennsylvania, while representatives of the families did valiant serv- ice in the cause of independence during the war of the Revolution.

James M. Lawson passed his boyhood days in Pennsylvania, where he secured his early ed- ucational discipline in the public schools. At the age. of twenty years he was matriculated in Princeton University, where he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in 1886. Shortly after his graduation in law he came to Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he exposed his professional "shingle" in July, 1886, and made ready for the practice of law. He was soon es- tablished in a satisfactory business, while he is now one of the leading members of the bar of this section, retaining a representative clientage. and having had to do with much important liti- gation in the state federal courts, his prestige and precedence being the diametrical result of the proper application of his energies and abili- ties. He is financially interested in farming, and in mining developments in the Black Hills, and his success in temporal affairs has been of no equivocal order. In 1884-5 Mr. Lawson was a private in the Washington Artillery of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the same being at the time a por- tion of the Fourth Regiment of the Pennsylvania State Guard. This company has had a long and distinguished history, having had an uninter-

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History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 87

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