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A. A. Quarnberg-born in Sweden in August, 1849; came to America in June, 1869, and settled in Clay county, Dakota: married Lydia M. Norelius, a native of Sweden: have one child, named Roland A.
R. M. Rasmussen-was born in Denmark in 1834; came to America in 1862 and settled in New York; then went to Boston. Served in army three months, in 2d Mass. Cavalry, "Co. L," when he was discharged, owing to an injury received: then moved to Chicago; thence to Omaha: thence to Dakota. Married Lina Hansen, a native of Denmark: have three children- Charley. Mary and Emma.
Captain J. S. Runyan- was born in Northumberland county, Pa .. Sept., 1842: came west in 1867, and settled in Sioux City, Ia .; in 1872 he moved to Dakota, and engaged in the livery and hotel business: he served in the army four years, in the "93d Pa. Infantry. Co. H., Volunteers," under Col. C. W. Eckman; was Brevet Captain. He married S. E. Brewer. a native of Pa .: have three children Charles N., Sharpless R., Bessie C.
B. F. Reeve-was born in Canada in 1844: came to the U. S. in 1850 with parents. and settled at Maquoketa, Iowa; came to Dakota in August, 1878. Was postmaster in Iowa two years. Married N. Gertie Smith, of Maquoketa, Iowa: have two chil- dren -- Alice G. and Estella B.
G. T. Salmer --- was born in Norway, in 1845; came to Amer- ica in 1866: settled in Chicago for six months: then moved to Wisconsin: thence to Sioux City, Iowa, where he lived three years; he then moved to Dakota, and settled in Vermillion. Served in the military in the" old country " one year. Married Sarah Hansen, of Norway: have two children-Joseph and Clara.
Prof. Samuel Seccombe, principal Vermillion High Schools was born in East Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 23d. 1855. Is a graduate of Amherst College: graduated in the summer of 1879; prior to that he attended Phillips' Academy: has been teaching in
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Colorado, the past two years. Married America J. Hinton, a native of Kansas.
T. S. Stanley-was born in Vermont in 1836; canie west in 1852, and settled in Erie county, N. Y .; then moved to Delevan, Wis .; from Wisconsin went to Michigan, and settled at Mason; from Michigan he moved to Dakota in 1870. Married Maggie Newton, of N. Y .; have five children, Mary, Bertie, Lyman, Ray and Carl.
Win. Shriner, county treasurer of Clay county, Dakota- - born in Pennsylvania in 1822: came to Dakota in 1861; was elected to his present office in 1876. Married Harriet Pitman in 1859; they have five children.
C. G. Shaw, P. M .- born in Galesburg, New Hampshire, in 1843; came to Dakota in 1866; has been P. M. eight and one- half years. Married in 1872 to Abbie M. Laughton, of Maine; they have one child.
H. E. Vanghn-was born in Illinois, in Gennessee county in 1852; came west in 1854 with parents, and settled in Decatur county, Iowa; came to Dakota in 1867; he is now (1881) deputy sheriff of Clay county; he married Christine Oleson, of Illinois; have one child, named Raymond A.
Geo. Wheeler-was born in Illinois, in 1847; from Illinois he went to Wisconsin; thence to Omaha, Nebraska: thence to Dako- ta, he served in the army two years, under Sylvester, of Castle Rock, Wis., in the 12th infantry; he was with Gen. Sherman in his great and memorable march; he married Emily Murdock, of Illinois; they have three children, Ida, Rennie and Mattie.
George Williams-was born in Canada in 1833; came to the United States in July 1872, and settled in Vermillion, Dakota; married Mary Ann Fletcher, of England; have seven children- Davia, Eliza, Noah, Alice, George, Edward, Alfred, Willis. (Have buried three children, named Alice, George and Gordon).
J. T. White-was born in Vermont in 1824; came west in 1871, and settled in Dakota in 1872; has been tax collector for city school; he married M. R. Fox, of N. Y. state; have six children- Amy A., Bertha M., Josiah R., Edwin M., Mabel S. and Rose P.
Wm. Spowage-was born in England 1827; came to America in 1854, and settled in Pennsylvania; he then removed to Stephen- son county; Illinois, and from there to Dakota in 1867; he served in the army one and a half years under Gen. Canby, in the "47th Illinois Infantry." At present time (1881) is chairman of the board of supervisors for the town of Meckling; has also been school director for several terms; married Ann Cox, of England; have three children-Annie, John and Nellie: a son, Thomas, was drowned in the flood in the spring of 1881.
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Edgar J. Anderson-born in England in 1847; came to Amer- iea in 1859, and settled with his parents in Racine, Wisconsin; in 1881 he came to Yankton; married Miss E. Kirkman. They have three children.
J. B. Ashley -- born in Indiana, in Warwick county, in 1856; came west in 1879, and settled near the Jim River, in Dakota: came to Yankton and established a meat market in 1881, the firm name being Maxwell and Ashley.
J. H. Balmat-was born in Ohio, January 3d, 1848; came to Kansas City in 1868, in 1869 he went to Des Moines, Iowa; in 1871 he came to Dakota; married Mary McMackin: she died May the Sth, 1879; have two children, Jennie M. and Joseph L.
Gen. William H. Beadle-born at Rockville. Ind., in 1838; graduated at the University of Michigan, a member of the cele- brated class of 1861, nearly all of whom immediately enlisted in the service of their country for the war of the Rebellion. Subse- quently graduated from the Law Department of the University in the class of 1867; enlisted as a private in the 31st Ind. volunteer infantry, in 1861; promoted First Lieutenant, Sept 3d. 1861: Cap- tain November 9th, 1861; Lieutenant Colonel 1st Michigan sharp- shooters, November, 1862, and Colonel, in 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps for disability, caused by wounds and sick- ness June 14th. 1864; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel for " gallantry in defense of Washington;" Colonel for " gallant and meritorious services," and Brigadier-General for " gallant and meritorious ser- viees during the war;" was private secretary to Gov. A. W. How- ard, of Dakota; Surveyor-General of Dakota from 1869 to 1873; commissioner to revise and codify the laws of Dakota 1875 and '76; member Dakota legislature in 1877; since February. 1870, Terri- torial Superintendent of Instruction: married to Ellen S. Chap- man, of Albion, Michigan. May 1863, and has three daughters.
E. A. Odiorne-born in Vermont in 1853: came west in 1877, and settled in Yankton; engaged in his present business in 1881.
Hon. Nehemiah Ordway -- Governor of Dakota: a native of War- ner, Merrimac Co., N. H., and is 52 years old: Col. Ordway has led a very active, business and political life, engaging when quite young in mercantile pursuits, and has subsequently been con- nected with numerous important business enterprises, serving for many years as president of the Kearsarge National and Kearsarge Savings Banks, in his native town; in 1855 was elected Sergeant- at Arms in the New Hampshire Legislature. and afterwards sery- ing a clerk; in 1857, at the close of the legislative session. was ap- pointed High Sheriff of his native county, for five years, which po- sition he resigned in 1831 to accept the appointment of Gonetal Mail Superintendent for the New England States; in 1862 was commissioned as Colonel by the Governor of New Hampshire, and
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in December, 1863, was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States House of Representatives for the Thirty-eighth Congress, receiving six consecutive elections and filling that office for twelve years; at the close of the last session of the Forty-Third Congress Col. Ordway returned to New Hampshire, and was elected from his native town to the lower House of the New Hampshire legis- lature, and was re-elected in 1876-'77, and also served during that period in the Constitutional convention, and at the head of a tax commissson which re-organized the whole tax system of the state; was elected under the amended constitution in November 1878, to the State Senate for two years; during the fifteen years since Col. Ordway became an officer in the National House of Representa- tives he was connected with several important business enterprises in the District of Columbia; Col. Ordway was appointed Governor of Dakota to fill the vacancy occasioned bythe death of Gov. How- ard; his nomination was reported unanimously from the Commit- tee on Territories, and promptly and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate; he reached Yankton and assumed office June 27, 1880; in July and August of that year he made an ex- tended tour through the Territory, and aided in sending an elabo- rate exhibition car, containing agricultural and mineral products of Dakota, to the New England and other state fairs in the East- ern and Middle States; his report to the Secretary of the Interior made in November, 1880, gave a comprehensive statement of the condition of the Territory; his first biennial message, delivered in person to the Legislative Assembly, containing thirty-two closely- printed pages, gave a complete and concise history of the condi- tion and requirements of the Territory; his recommendations in regard to the necessity for the erection of an Insane Asylum and a 'Territorial Penitentiary, were favorably acted upon by the Leg- islative Assembly.
Warren Osborn-Deputy-Sheriff, was born in Erie County, Ohio, in 1840: he came west in 1855, and settled in Freeborn County, Minnesota, in 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Second Minnesota; discharged August 1. 1865, he returned to Minnesota and engaged in the mercantile business: in 1866 he removed to Yankton; in 1879 he was appointed to his present position; mar- ried to Mary J. Thomas; they have four children
H. W. Pike-grocer; was born in Ohio in 1848; in 1867 he came west and located in Yankton; in 1878 he engaged in the grocery business; he married Sophia Flick: they have three chil- dren, M. C., Harry L. and an infant.
I. Piles-was born in Ohio in 1848; he came to Council Bluffs and lived until 1873; he then removed to Yankton and engaged in his present business; he married in 1873, Miss Florence A. King.
Thaddeus Pisek-comb-maker; established business 1879; born in Bohemia; came to America in 1869 and settled in Dakota; mar-
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ried Rosa Moe, of Bohemia ; have four children -- Annie, Mary, Johanna, Bowley.
J. P. Redaelli-born in northern Itally, in April 1825; came to America in 1871: served as a volunteer in the old country in the revolution : married Jane Revell.
Wm. Reinhardt-city marshal; born in Wisconsin in 1855; in 1878 he came to Yankton and was engaged as instructor in the Yankton gymnasium; he married in 1877; he has one daughter- Hattie.
Owen Bartlett-born in Ireland in 1845, in 1863 he enlisted in the 33d Iowa, and served until the close of the war; came to Yankton in 1865 and was engaged in the liquor business until 1870. In 1873 he engaged in his present business.
John O. Bates-dealer in gents' furnishing goods: born in Milan, Ohio, in 1848; came to Yankton in 1870; in 1873 he en- gaged in his present business.
Dr. Walter Atwood Burleigh-a native of Waterville, Kenne- bec county, Maine; from 1861 to 1864 Dr. Burleigh was agent of the Yankton Indians, and from 1864 to 1868 was delegate to Con- gress from Dakota. In the winter of 1877 he represented Yank- ton county in the upper branch of the Territorial Legislature, and was chosen president of the council; he has been largely engaged in the steamboating trade of the upper Missouri, having owned or been interested in the steamboats Miner, Carroll, Black Hills and Gen. Terry, and has been quite prominently identified with the history of the tertory. His residence is still at Yankton, although he has extensive business interests at Miles City, Montana.
John Becker -- born in Germany in 1836; came to America in 1865. and the following year settled in Yankton; was engaged in the mercantile business until 1871; he then engaged in the ho- tel business.
Leo Biermeyer -was born in Germany, in 1836: came to America the 17th day of June, 1866; settled in Dakota in 1869; he married Julia Sehenk,a native of Germany; they have six children, Emily, Mollie, Josephine, Julia, Johnnie and Lizzie.
Hon. S. A. Boyles-born in Indiana in 1841; was educated at the State University in July, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, 18 Indiana; promoted to First Lieutenant in the spring of 1862; resigned in the winter of 1864, and returned to Indiana; admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1868, elected state attorney from Clay county, Ill., in 1872; resigned the position in 1874 and removed to Hudson county; in 1876 he came to Yankton; was a member of the legislature in 1880. served as chairman judiciary committee .- - In 1869 he married Mattie Dillin.
Joseph Bader -- was born in Germany in 1832; in 1852 he
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came to America, and located in Galena, Illinois, and engaged in boot and shoe trade; in 1854 he went to Wabasha, Minnesota. and engaged in mercantile business; in 1874 he went to St. Paul, where he lived until 1875; he then removed to Yankton and opened up the Minnesota Hotel.
George A. Baker-was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1847; came west and settled in Minnesota in 1854; and from there he came west with Ben. Hart's army train, and settled in Dakota; served in the army 3 years and 11 months under Robert Cook; was a prisoner fourteen months in Andersonville and Bell Island; afte he came out he received a commission as 2d Lieutenant; married Lottie Stewart, of Leavenworth, Kansas; have two children, George T. and Frances L.
John Bramsen-born in Schleswig, Germany, in 1848; came to America in 1866; settled in Yankton, Dakota Territory, in 1870; married Mary Thompson; have four children, Eric, Dick, Freddie and Katie.
Jacob Brauch-was born in Switzerland in 1826; came to America in 1852, and settled in St. Louis; married Annie Brezhlel (who died in 1876); then married Mary Rizli; have eight children, Adolph, Emil, Gust, Robert, Augustus. Julius, Albert and Frank. Mr. Brauch served in the army in the old country two years.
Michael Brennan-was born in Ireland the 19th of July, 1842; came to America in August, 1865, and settled in Council Bluffs, Iowa; came to Dakota in 1877; married Kate Walsh, of Yankton, D. T .; have one child named Aun, aged five months.
W. M. Bristoll-principal of public schools; was born in Con- necticut in 1839; he is a graduate of Yale College of 1860; in 1864 he enlisted as a private in the 13th Wisconsin Light Battery; he was promoted 24 Lieutenant, and then Ist Lieutenant; and after- wards detailed to go to the ordnance department at New Orleans; he remained in New Orleans a year and a halt after the close of the war; he then entered the Theological Seminary of Andover, Massachusetts, remaining two years; he soon after located at Ripon, Wisconsin, where he remained five years as Professor of Latin of Ripon College; from there he went to Atlanta, Georgia; thence he came to Yankton; he married Rose E. Olds, of Minnesota.
W. H. H. Brown-dentist; born in Pennsylvania in 1840; came west in 1879, and located in Yankton; he is one of the lead- ing dentists of the city; married in 1876 to Miss Adella Van Tas- sel, a native of Pennsylvania.
Chas. Broderson-born in Prussia in 1834; served one year in Prussian war, and eighteen months in the Damsh army, receiving a medal from the King of Denmark for bravery in the war of 1864; he came to Yankton in 1869, and went into the mercantile busi- ness; in 1873 he engaged in hotel business.
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H. J. Brisbine-born in Ohio in 1825; came to Yankton and opened first farm west of Yankton; has held the office of Judge of Probate and other county offices; he has seven children; Milton and H. E. reside in Yankton; H. E. holding a responsible position in the store of Jacob Max.
F. Burgi-born in Monroe. Green county, Wisconsin. in 1855; November 17, 1875, moved to Dubuque, where he lived one year; from thence he moved to Dakota Territory, and settled in the vi- cinity of Yankton; he married Leora J. Ryan, of Indiana, after- wards of Dubuque; have one child eight months old, named Fred- die.
Gottfried Burgi-was born in Switzerland, city of Berne, in 1845: came to America in 1868, and settled in Monroe, Wisconsin; lived in Chicago three years; then came to Dakota; he married Mary Korth; they have five chidlren, Rosa, Henry, Adolph, Ella and Louisa.
John Campbell-of the Yankton iron works; born in Eng- land. and in 1869 he came to America. and located in Sioux City in 1872: he removed to Yankton in 1864; he married Ann Hunn; they have five children, Susan, Joseph, John, Martha and Robert.
Joseph Campbell-foundry and machinist; born in England; he came to America in company with his brothers; in 1866 he married Helen Eastoe; they have five children, Joseph H., Chas A., Charlotte A., John and Constance F.
Felix Cariveau-born in Canada in 1837; came to the United States in 1853; settled in St. Paul, Minnesota; came to Dakota in 1876; served in the army four years under Gen. Thomas; married Elizabeth Conley, a native of Delaware; have four children, Blanche A., Mary, Lillian and Robert.
Walter H. Carr-born in England in 1848; came to America in 1851; settled in Utica, New York; came west in the spring of 1867. and settled in Yankton, Dakota Territory; established busi- ness in Yankton in 1876; served in the army eighteen months in Hancock's 2d corps; married Lizzie Allen, a native of England; have two boys, Allen C. and Lewis E.
Hon. L. Congleton-probate judge; was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1818; until 1855 he was employed by the Pennsylvania Canal Company; he then removed to Central Iowa; he soon after removed to Spirit Lake, Iowa, and was elected judge of probate, which position he held until 1864, when he re- moved to Yankton; in 1866, was appointed court commissioner; he held the office until October 1, 1881; in 1876 he was elected pro- bate judge of Yankton county, which position he still holds; in 1839 he married Rose Stewart; they have two daughters.
D. B. Cooley-was born in New York, Otsego county, in 1841; came west in 1858 and settled in Illinois; came to Dakota in 1867.
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He made the first set of harness ever made in Dakota Territory; he made the first, and only, horse colar ever made in the Territory, and also built the first brick house in the Territory. He married Minnie Chamberlain, of New York; they have two children, Mat- tic T. and George H. Mr. Cooley was the youngest Justice of the Peace ever elected in New York, which office he held three years.
W. H. Curtis-born in New York in 1849; came to Yankton in 1868, and was engaged in various pursuits until 1881, when he became proprietor of the Bradley House. Married in 1866 to Miss C. M. Tarbox, a native of New York; have four children, Hattie B., Charles F., Dora A. and Cora F.
W. B. Dean-freight and ticket agent for the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railroad; was born in Illinois; in 1881, he mar- ried Minnie Morrill.
F. K. DeLong-was born in Ohio November 17th. 1854; came to Illinois at the age of two years, where he received his schooling; from Illinois he went to Minnesota, and in 1881 came to Dakota Territory, where he settled permanently; married Jennie Macken- zie, a native of Canada.
T. S. Dickson-county superintendent; born in Glengary county, Canada, in 1848; he practiced law in Chicago seven years; in 1876 he came to Yankton; taught school two years, and was subsequently clected county superintendent of Yankton county.
R. A. Dickson-born in Glengary county, Canada, in 1852; in 1876 he went to Black Hills; in 1879 he returned to Yankton, and is at present engaged in teaching.
H. D. Dodge-dentist; born in New York in 1849; was brought up in the mercantile business until 1868; studied medi- cine one and a half years in Syracuse, New York; then studied dentistry and located in Dubuque, where he practiced four years; and located in Yankton in 1875.
James Donahue-born in Rochester, New York, in 1842; came west in 1869, and settled in Dakota; married Mary A. Walsh, of Wisconsin; have two children, Tommy, aged eleven, and Nellie, aged six.
E. C. Dudley -- salesman for Richey; born in Illinois in 1845; came to Yankton in 1869; following year he engaged in hardware business. and continued until 1878; he married Miss Ruch; they have four children, Edna, Mabel, Honora and Julia.
Hon. Newton Edmunds-born in Niagara county, New York, May 31, 1819; moved to Washtenaw county, Michigan, in 1832; came to Yankton, Dakota, in 1861, as chief clerk in the Surveyor General's office; was appointed Governor of Dakota in August, 1863, which position he held until September. 1866, when he en- gaged extensively in farming and sheep raising; engaged in the banking business in Yankton in 1873, which business is still con-
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tinued, the firm being Edmunds & Wynn, Leighton Wynn, of Pennsylvania, being the junior member thereof; married in 1848 to Margaret E. Heartt, of Michigan, and has three sons and one daughter: in 1876 he was a member of the Government Commis- sion which made the successful treaty with the Sioux Indians, the result of which was the opening of the Black Hills to white immi- gration; at the time of his occupancy of the chief executive's office the governor of Dakota was ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and consequently in that capacity Gov. Edmunds had charge of all the Indians in the Territory. In this position in 1865, he made peace with all the Sioux, and also between the lat- ter and other Indians; the first general peace made after the Min- nesota massacre of 1862 Probably no other man in the country has had greater experience in Indian negotiations than Gov. Ed- munds and certainly no other person has managed so many such negotiations with so great success. The Governor has also held numerous minor positions of public trust.
Miss B. Eiekhoff-dress maker; born in Illinois in 1858; in 1872 went to Nebraska; in 1879 came to Yankton.
Chas Eiseman-dealer in dry goods and clothing; born in Baden, Germany, in 1835; came to America in 1850; in 1868 he came to Yankton, and engaged in drv goods trade in company with his brother; he married in 1866 to Miss Lehman.
L. H. Eliot-born in New York State in 1826; came west in 1858; first settled in Indiana; in 1864 he moved to Yankton, Da- kota Territory; he was three months in the Quarter Master's de- partment in Chattanooga as a civilian; has been deputy sheriff two terms; married Mary Tredway, of the state of New York.
Ephriam M. Epstein-M. D .; born near Russia; was educated in Europe and America; he graduated at Andover (Mass.) Theo- logical Seminary. and the college of physicians and surgeons, of the state of New York; came to Dakota Territory in 1881; prior to this he lived in Ohio twelve years; married Helene Greyer, of Hanover; have two children, Frieda and Julia; served in the Aus- train navy in the year 1866, in the campaign against Italy; was re- ceived there on his American diploma (a very unusual thing); he is a thorough American, but still has a bond of sympathy for his mother country. Russia.
D. Frank Etter-M. D .; born in Pennsylvania in 1835; began the practice of medieme in 1836; in 1855 he came to Illinois, and in 1873, to Yankton; is U. S. examining physician.
J. W. Evans-was born in Ohio, Wayne county, January 17, 1832; came west in 1850, and settled in Indiana; was one of the earliest settlers that came to Dakota; he came from St. Paul with Dakota Land Company, of which he was a member; this was the pioneer party; in 1857 he went to Minnesota; the same year he moved to Dakota; served in the provost service; his wife died Feb-
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ruary 19, 1857; her maiden name was Maria McMullen; have one child named Irene E.
Hon. Andrew J. Faulk-born November 26, 1814, at Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania: moved with his parents to Kittan- ning, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania; came to Dakota in Octo- ber, 1861, and became trader at the Yankton Indian agency, which post he afterwards sold to C. and D. Hedges, of Sioux City, Iowa; returning to Kittanning. Pennsylvania, he embarked in the oil business in Oil City from the summer of 1864, to 1866; was super- intendent of the Latonia Coal Company, of New York, (which company he helped to organize) and also helped organize the Pax- ton Oil Company, of West Pithole, Pennsylvania; during his op- erations in the oil regions he assisted in sinking some eighteen dif- ferent oil wells, meeting with but indifferent financial success, however; was appointed governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for Dakota, August 4, 1866, and continued in this at that time arduous position until May, IS69; was editor of the Arm- strong (Pa ) Democrat from 1837 to 1843, and has filled various public positions in that state; was mayor of Yankton from the spring of 1871 to the spring of 1872, and officiated at the public reception of Senator Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, upon the latter's visit to Yankton, during his occupancy of the mayoralty; has been clerk of the United States District Court for the Second Judicial District for the past eight years, and is United States commission- er; is a great grandson of Gen. Daniel Broadhead, of Pennsylvan- ia, of Revolutionary fame; married November 26, 1835, to Char- lotte McMath, of Pennsylvania, and has one son and five dangh- ters. among the members of his family being Hon. W. A. Burleigh, his son-in-law; was for about eight years president of the Dakota Bar Association; took a large delegation of Brules, Yanktons, Yanktonnais and Santees to Washington in 1867, and has had great experience in Indian affairs.
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