History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 95

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

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at Sioux Falls, and Lodge No. 9449, Modern Woodmen of America. He has served as president of the Old Settlers' Association of Ly- man county since 1900. is well known through- out this section and is held in the highest esteem in business and social circles.

On the 23d of November, 1883, Mr. Barlow was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Jones, of Flandreau, this state, no children having been born of this union.

WILLIAM FRANCIS CORRIGAN was born at Prior Lake, Scott county. Minnesota, on the 22d of January, 1865. and is a son of Peter Corrigan, a native of Ireland, who came to the United States in his youth and who won success through his own indefatigable efforts, having the respect and esteem of his fellow men. The subject secured his early educational train- ing in the public schools of Scott county, Min- nesota. and at the age of seventeen years began reading law, having decided to adopt its practice as his vocation in life. He took up his residence in Mellette. South Dakota, on the 2d of August, 1895, and at the October term of the supreme court of the state he was admitted to the bar in that year. He at once established himself in practice in Mellette. and by his devotion to his work and his excellent technical knowledge and his power of applying the same he has built up a representative general practice in the state and federal courts and is one of the highly honored members of the bar of his county. He is general attorney for South Dakota of the St. Croix Lumber Company, of Minnesota, and is also similarly retained by other important cor- porations. In politics Mr. Corrigan is stanchly arrayed as a supporter of the principles and poli- cies of the Republican party, and fraternally he is identified with the local lodge of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and with the chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.

On the Toth of October, 1891, Mr. Corrigan was united in marriage to Miss Hattie B. Skin- ner, who was born in Delphis, Ohio. They have no children.

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WILLIAM D. CRAIG, cashier of the James River Bank, at Frankfort, Spink county, is a na- tive of the province of Ontario, Canada, where he was born on the 26th of August, 1849, being a son of David C. and Mary J. Craig, both of whom were born in the state of New York. In 1855 they removed from Canada to Winneshiek county. Iowa, remaining but a short time, since within the same year they removed to Fillmore county, Minnesota, where Mr. Craig became one of the early settlers and pioneer farmers, being duly successful in his efforts and being one of the influential citizens of his section. The par- ents came to Spink county, near Frankfort, in 1882, and here died, the mother dying in the summer of 1899, and the father dying in the summer of 1901. During the war of the Re- bellion the father served three years and ten months as a member of the Third Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. The subject of this sketch was reared on the home farm in Fillmore county, Minnesota. and received his early educational training in its common schools. He continued to assist his father in the work and management of the home place, until he married, when he engaged in farming on his own responsibility. continuing his residence in Minnesota until 1884. when he came to South Dakota and located in Spink county, where he secured a farm of three hundred and twenty acres and engaged in farm- ing and stock growing. In the autumn of 1888 he was elected sheriff of the county and was re- elected in 1890, while in 1892 he was elected to represent his district in the state senate, succeed- ing himself in the election of 1894, and proving himself a valuable working member of the gen- eral assembly of the newly admitted common- wealth, while in 1902 he was elected a member of the lower house of the legislature, as a repre- sentative of Spink county. He is still the owner of valuable farming land in the county and is also engaged in the buying and shipping of grain, in addition to his banking interests, while he has shown a helpful interest in all that has tended to conserve the advancement and material prosperity of his home town and county. In politics he has ever been stanchly arrayed in

support of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and fraternally he is identified with Frankfort Lodge, No. 77. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Frankfort Lodge, No. 303, Ancient Order of United Workmen, being recorder of each of these organizations at the time of this writing. For the past quarter of a century he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and of the same Mrs. Craig also is a member.

On the 25th of May. 1873. at Harmony, Fill- more county, Minnesota, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Craig to Miss Addie R. Elliott. who was born in St. Lawrence county. New York, in March, 1852, her parents having like- wise been born in the old Empire state, whence they removed to Minnesota in the pioneer days. Mr. and Mrs. Craig have two children. John D., who was born on the 26th of April. 1874. and Edith J., who was born on the 23d of Febru- ary, 1879, and who married Oscar Blain, of Frankfort. South Dakota.

JOHN KNOX KUTNEWSKY, M. D., the efficient and honored superintendent of the north- ern hospital for the insane, at Redfield, Spink county, was born in Groveland, Tazewell county, Illinois, on the 20th of April, 1858, and is a son of John and Margaret (Knox) Kutnewsky, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in Ireland, of Scottish lineage. The par- ents of the Doctor were numbered among the pio- neers of Illinois, where the father followed the vo- cation of milling, and where he and his devoted wife continued to reside until 1883. when they moved to Redfield, South Dakota, where the fa- ther built the Redfield City Mills, and where he died in 1884. The mother, two sisters and three brothers moved to Salt Lake, Utah, in 1900. where they are still living. The Doctor availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of his native state and was thereafter a student in the University of Illinois, at Champaign, for two years, while in 1880 he was matriculated in that celebrated institution, Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago, where he was graduated

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in February, 1882, receiving his coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine and coming forth admir- ably equipped for the active work of his chosen profession. He was engaged in practice at Grove- land, Illinois, until 1884, when he came to Red- field, South Dakota, where he built up a large and representative general practice, to which he continued to give his undivided attention until October 1, 1901, when he was appointed to his present responsible and exacting office as super- intendent of the northern hospital for the insane, one of the noble and well-equipped institutions of the state. He is a member of the American Med- ical Association, the South Dakota State Medical Society and the Aberdeen District Medical Soci- ety, while in a social way he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of the Maccabees. His political allegiance is given unreservedly to the Republi- can party, of whose principles he is a stanch advo- cate.

On the 4th of May. 1882, Dr. Kutnewsky was united in marriage to Miss Julia Etta Kincaid, who was born in Athens, Illinois, on the 9th of January, 1860, being a daughter of John K. and Vienna Williams Kincaid. They have two chil- dren, Walter Knox, who was born on the 7th of May, 1883, and Edna V., who was born on the 29th of January, 1886.

MAURICE MORIARTY, the efficient and popular clerk of courts for Spink county, and a pioneer attorney of that county, was born at Clinton, lowa, on May 13. 1859. He attended the public schools of Muscatine county, Iowa, and later was matriculated in the Iowa State University at lowa City, where he was gradu- ated in the class of 1881. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In the meanwhile, however, he had been reading law. In 1882 he came to South Dakota and located at North- ville, Spink county, and formed a partnership with George C. Britton for the handling of real estate in connection with the practice of law. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar of Dakot?

territory. The firm of Britton & Moriarty was dissolved in 1885, at which time the subject re- moved to his farm near Northville. He carried on farming successfully until 1901, when, hav- ing been elected clerk of the courts in 1900, he removed to Redfield to assume the duties of his office. His administration of the clerk's office proved so satisfactory to the people that at the expiration of his term of two years he was re- elected for a second term, and is still incumbent of the office. In politics Mr. Moriarty is a mem- ber of the Republican party, and has ever been an earnest exponent of that party's cause. He was a member of the first convention called in reference to securing the admission of South Da- kota to the Union. He has taken an active part in the different campaigns, and has stumped the state several times. Mr. Moriarty is identified with both the Knights of Pythias and the An- cient Order of United Workmen.

On December 13, 1863, Mr. Moriarty was united in marriage to Miss Estella Reiter, who was born in Martin county, Minnesota.

LEMUEL B. LAUGHLIN is a native of Grundy county, Illinois, where he was born on the 13th day of November, 1851, being a son of Robert S. and Melinda ( Livingston) Laughlin, to whom were born four children, two daughters and two sons. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools, and at Wheaton College, Wheaton, DuPage county, Illinois. In

October, 1882, he first came to Dakota, and in May, 1883, settled with his family in Bridge- water, where he resided until April, 1901, when he removed to Chamberlain, after being ap- pointed by President Mckinley receiver of public moneys for the United States land office situated at that point. In March, 1893, he was appointed by Governor Sheldon a member of the state board of charities and corrections, which posi- tion he filled until the expiration of his term, in March. 1899, four years of which he was sec- retary of the board.

On the 5th day of November, 1874, Mr. Laughlin was united in marriage to Susan I.

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Armstrong, of LaSalle county, Illinois, and they have five children, Bertha R., wife of William S. Burroughs. of Sioux City, Iowa ; Robert A., of Kansas City, Mo .; Grace M., Constance S. and Clinton J., who remain at the parental home.

FREDERICK TREON, M. D., one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the state, established in the practice of his profession in Chamberlain, was born in Shelby county, In- diana, on the 12th of August, 1857, and is a son of Dr. Andrew and Lydia (Steinberger) Treon, of whose five children three are living, namely : Rebecca, the wife of Edward Gabhert, of Bloom- ington, Illinois; Frederick, the subject of this sketch, and Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Lytle, of Michigan City, Indiana. The father of our subject was born in Lebanon county, Pennsyl- vania, where he was reared and educated. As a young man he removed thence to Miamisburg. Ohio, where he read medicine under the pre- ceptorage of his uncle, Dr. John Treon, being graduated in his chosen profession and then locating in Shelby county, Indiana, in the 'thirties, when that locality was practically un- reclaimed from the wilderness. He was one of the pioneer physicians of the county, and there he continued in practice until his death, in 1865, at the age of sixty-two years. He was twice married, the maiden name of his first wife hav- ing been Coffman, and of their children five are living, namely: Samuel, who is a resident of Mattoon, Illinois, was a valiant soldier in the war of the Rebellion, heing severely wounded in the siege of Vicksburg and re-enlisting after re- covering from the effects of this injury ; Jackson, who was likewise a soldier in the Civil war, is now a resident of Washington, Indiana ; Sarah is the wife of John Heck, of Bartholomew county, that state ; Sabill is the wife of H. C. Williamson, of Michigan City, Indiana, and Charlotte is the wife of William Collins, of Bar- tholomew county. Michael Treon, grandfather of the Doctor, was born in France, and he also was a physician, the family name having thus 36-

been long and prominently identified with the medical profession, the subject and two of his cousins, his father and grandfather, his uncle Michael and his great-uncle, John Treon, all hav- ing adopted the profession as a vocation.

After availing himself of the advantages af- forded in the public schools of his native county Dr. Treon continued his studies in the academy at Franklin, Indiana, and when about eight years of age he secured a position in the machine shops of Haskill & Barker, in Michigan City, where he completed a special course in geometry and trigonometry and civil and mechanical en- gineering. He was not yet satisfied with his mental attainments, however, and thus entered upon a careful study of anatomy under the personal direction of Dr. J. Sadler, of Edin- burg, Indiana, with a view of preparing himself for the practice of medicine. He thus continued his technical studies for two years, in the mean- while clerking in a drug store and by this means supplemented his knowledge of materia medica and therapeutics. In the fall of 1876 he went to Aurora, Indiana, and began the systematic study of medicine under the preceptorship of Drs. James and L. K. Lamb, remaining in their office until the latter part of the following year. when he was matriculated in the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, where he continued his studies two years, being then graduated and re- ceiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He at once entered upon the active practice of his profession, forming a partnership with his father-in-law, Dr. James Lamb, with whom he continued to be associated for six years. In 1886 Dr. Treon was appointed physician in the government Indian service, being assigned to service at the Crow Creek Indian reservation, in South Dakota. His commission expired four years later and he then went to the city of Chicago, where he took a post-graduate course in Rush Medical College and then opened an office in Hyde Park, that city, where he was in practice about three months, being then re- appointed to the Indian service and assigned to the San Carlos agency, in Arizona, where he re- mained six months, being then transferred to

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the Crow Creek agency, where he had previously served with so much acceptability. In 1893 the Doctor was appointed Indian agent for this reservation and also for the Lower Brule agency, retaining this incumbency four years and seven months and making an excellent record as an executive. In the spring of 1898 he came to Chamberlain, and soon afterward was appointed medical examiner, under General Andrew E. Lee, in the Spanish-American war service, being located at Sioux Falls. Later he was offered a commission as assistant surgeon under Colonel Grigsby, but did not accept the office. In the fall of 1898 the Doctor located in Chamberlain, where he has since been actively engaged in practice. In the fall of 1900 he became as- sociated with R. F. Terpenning in the drug busines and under the firm name of Terpenning & Treon they now conduct one of the leading pharmacies of the city, Mr. Terpenning being a graduate in pharmacy and a skilled chemist. The Doctor is a member of the South Dakota State Medical Society, of the Mitchell District Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. In politics he is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party. and both he and his wife are members of the Presby- terian church. Fraternally he is identified with Chamberlain Lodge, No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons ; Pilgrim Chapter, No. 32, Royal Arch Masons ; St. Bernard Commandery, No. 1I, Knights Templar, at Mitchell; Sioux Falls Lodge, No. 262, Benevolent and Protective Or- der of Elks: Castle Lodge, No. 10. Knights of Pythias, and also with the local organizations of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Mutual Benefit Association and the Knights of the Maccabees, being medical examiner for these three lodges, as well as for numerous old-time insurance companies.

On the 29th of March, 1879, Dr. Treon was united in marriage to Miss Rella L. Lamb, daughter of Dr. James Lamb, of Aurora, Indi- ana, and their only child, Dr. James F. Lamb, is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, and is engaged in the practice of his profession in Aurora, Indiana.

BEN P. HOOVER, of Gettysburg, is one of the best known and most popular men in South Dakota. He has been a resident of the section since 1877, when he arrived at Fort Bennett, the two-company post near Fort Sully, established a few years earlier to afford protection to the Chey- enne river Indian agency. He soon entered the Indian service as agency farmer and his experi- ence during the next few years with the still wild Indians ranges all the way from the humorous to the tragic. He was assigned to cut the hair of the wild fellows who surrendered after the Custer war, and saw big braves who had been leaders in massacres tremble and whine with fear as the scissors clipped off the sacred scalp lock which is so important an article in their superstitious faith. He was present and assisted in the fight with the Cold Spring robbers in the celebrated bout at the Water Holes, and was a participant in many other thrilling experiences. Leaving the Indian service, he established himself as a ranchman in Sully county and at once became a leading factor in the business and politics of that locality. He is an ardent Republican and first impressed himself upon the party leaders as possessing extraordi- nary powers in handling men, in the national Re- publican convention of 1892 when he rounded up and kept in line for Harrison, against the power- ful influences of the opposition, several of the colored delegations from southern states. From that time he has held a high position in the coun- cils of his party in the state and beyond. About 1894 he took up his residence in Gettysburg, and has since that time engaged in the real-estate and live-stock business, but has been much of the time employed in special service for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and for four years past has been the special representative of that line before the state legislature.

In 1898 Mr. Hoover met with a serious acci- dent, falling from a high trestlework upon the railway and, alighting upon a bed of boulders, his spine was dislocated. Almost any other man would have effectually been put out of commis- sion by an accident of this nature ; indeed his phy- sicians felt that it was necessarily fatal, but his splendid constitution and indomitable courage

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brought him through, and though he is not the robust man he was in his earlier days, he enjoys very good health and is in business affairs as ac- tive and forceful as ever.

Mr. Hoover was born August 27, 1854, at Wayne, Wisconsin, and was educated in the com- mon schools. He was married February 14, 1879, to Miss Alberta Rounds, of Malone, New York. Mrs. Hoover died in 1895, leaving to Mr. Hoover two sons and a daughter. Mabel A., Wayne and Ben C. A gentleman of Mr. Hoover's popularity could be scarcely less than an active lodge man, and he is honored in the Masons. Odd Fellows, Elks, Workmen and Woodmen of America.

BERT G. WATTSON, senior member of the firm of Wattson & Hulseman, hardware mer- chants of Chamberlain, was born in Northwood, Worth county, Iowa, September 23, 1867, and is a son of George F. and Felixine M. (Wardall) Wattson, of whose six children he is the eldest of the five now living, the others being as fol- lows : Carrie, the wife of L. G. Gunn, of Lawton, Oklahoma; Charles, a resident of El Reno, that territory ; as are also 'Robert and Kenneth. The father of the subject was born in Michigan, and there his mother died when he was a child, his father soon afterward removing to Iowa. There he was reared and educated, and at the age of sev- enteen years he enlisted as a private in Company K. Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which he served during the major portion of the Civil war, the history of that regiment being that of his career as a valiant son of the republic. After the close of the war he engaged in the drug business in Northwood, Iowa, where he continued to re- side until 1888, when he disposed of his interests there and removed to Texas, where he engaged in railroad contracting and in the real-estate busi- ness. In 1891 he removed to El Reno, Okla- homa, where he established himself in the real- estate business, and soon after the inauguration of the late lamented President Mckinley he was appointed postmaster in that place, a position which he has ever since filled, having been reap- pointed under President Roosevelt. He was

elected a member of the Iowa state legislature in the early 'eighties, serving one term. He is a Royal Arch Mason. His devoted wife entered into eternal rest in 1894, and he later married Mrs. Adah Birney, no children having been born of this union.

Bert G. Wattson secured his early education in the public schools of his native state and then entered the Iowa State Agricultural College, at Ames, where he continued his studies, after which he was engaged in teaching for one term. He then secured a clerkship in the office of the United States Express Company at Northwood, and in September, 1886, he came to Chamberlain, South Dakota, where for the ensuing three years he was employed as clerk in the dry-goods establishment of M. W. Egleston. In the autumn of 1889 he went to Vernon, Texas, where he was assistant postmaster for one year. In 1800 he returned to Chamberlain and in the spring of the following year he was here united in marriage to Miss Mil- dred M. Hart, daughter of Charles B. Hart, local station agent of the Chicago, Minneapolis & St. Paul Railroad. Soon after his marriage he re- moved with his bride to the state of Washington, where they remained about four months, and he then returned to Chamberlain, with the intention of entering into partnership with a friend and en- gaging in the dry-goods business here. But shortly after his arrival the store of his former employer, Mr. Egleston, was sold to J. W. Orcott, and our subject was engaged as manager of the enterprise, and somewhat less than a year later Mr. Egleston again engaged in business, in a new location, and Mr. Wattson again entered his em- ploy. remaining with him about four years, or until 1892, when he was elected city auditor, of which office he continued incumbent about four years. In the fall of 1896 Mr. Wattson purchased an interest in the grocery business of Charles H. Young, and the enterprise was continued under the firm name of Wattson & Young until the fall of 1897. when the business was sold, and there- upon our subject purchased the interest of J. M. Green in the hardware business of J. M. Green & Company, the firm name being simultaneously changed to Cook & Wattson. On the Ist of Jan-

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uary, 1903, j. F. Hulseman purchased Mr. Cook's interest, and the present firm name was adopted.

Mr. Wattson is a staneh Republican, and is identified with Chamberlain Lodge, No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons; Pilgrim Chapter, Royal Areh Masons ; Chamberlain Lodge, No. 88, An- cient Order of United Workmen: Sioux Tent, No. 34, Knights of the Maccabees; and Sioux Falls Lodge, No. 262, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. and Mrs. Wattson have had three children, of whom two are living, George H. and Donald H. Mrs. Mildred Wattson died in April, 1900, and on March 10, 1904. Mr. Wattson married Miss Cora M. Miner, of Mitch- ell, South Dakota, daughter of George H. Miner.

JOSIAH LOCKE PHILLIPS, M. D., was born in the picturesque old town of Farmington. Maine, on the 8th of June, 1835, and his death occurred in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on the 12th of June. 1882. His father, Dr. Alan Phil- lips, was born at Greene, Maine, on the 20th of June. 1798, and died at Dubuque, Iowa, on the 9th of October, 1878, having been one of the early settlers in the Hawkeye state. He pre- pared for college under the preceptorship of Dr. Holland, of Canton, Maine, and was graduated in the medical department of Bowdoin College as a member of the class of 1822. after which he was engaged in the praetiee of his profession in Strong: that state, where he remained until 1829, when he removed to Farmington, where he continued his professional labors until the time of his removal to Iowa, where he passed the remainder of his life. The family name has been identified prominently with the medical profession for a number of generations. and records extant show that the family was founded in America in the early colonial epoch of our national history. The genealogy is traced in a direct way to Richard Phillips, who was mar- ried, at Pembroke. Massachusetts, on the 9th of October. 1746, to Miss Ruth Bonney. In 1777 they removed to Turner, Androseoggin county. Maine. Richard Phillips served in de- fense of Boston in 1775, and his son Ichabod.

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History of South Dakota, Vol. II, Part 95

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