NORMAN O. HAMLIN.

Norman O. Hamlin, one of the foremost citizens and enterprising agriculturists of Sioux Falls township, Minnehaha county, residing on section 34, is busily engaged in the cultivation of about four hundred and sixty acres of land and also conducts a dairy business. His birth occurred in Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d of October, 1871, his parents being William B. and Eva A. (Barney) Hamlin, who were born, reared and married in the state of New York.

About 1870 they removed to Toledo, Ohio, where the father was employed as foreman in a planning mill for about five years. On the expiration of that period he removed to Chicago, where for about eight years he was identified with the retail grocery business. In 1883 he located in Hyde county, South Dakota, and there entered a homestead, took up a tree claim and also preempted a quarter section of land. In 1895 or 1896, however, he sold his holdings and took up his abode in Highmore, where he has since made his home.

William B. Hamlin is a veteran of the Civil war. serving for two years in the Twenty-fourth New York Infantry and subsequently reenlisting with the First New York Veteran Cavalry. He remained with the army during the entire period of hostilities between the north and south and held the rank of first sergeant of his troop at the time of his discharge.

For a number of years he served as police justice and chief of police at Highmore, Hyde county, where he is most widely and favorably known, having now lived in the county for more than three decades.

Norman O. Hamlin was reared at home and acquired a common-school education in his youth, also pursuing a commercial course in the Sioux Falls Business College. Following the completion of his studies he secured a position with the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company as cashier and bookkeeper, remaining with that concern for two years and being appointed assistant manager of the Sioux Falls branch shortly prior to his resignation in 1903. In that year he rented a tract of land near Colman, in Moody county, and turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits, farming there for four years. In 1908 he located in Minnehaha county and has since resided in Sioux Falls township, where he is engaged in

farming on an extensive scale, cultivating a tract of rented land comprising about four hundred and sixty acres. He also conducts a dairy business, milking about twenty-live cows, and in both branches of his business has met with a gratifying measure of success. He has recently purchased a farm of forty acres one mile south of the city limits of Sioux Falls.

On the 17th of August, 1901, Mr. Hamlin was united in marriage to Miss Nellie A. Dunlap, a native of Coleman, South Dakota, and a daughter of R. J. Dunlap, .Jr. The latter is a prominent stock buyer and farmer of Colman who came to this state in 1877. Our subject and his wife have two children, Gladys E. and Norman William. Mr. Hamlin gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is identified fraternally with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He has many attractive social qualities which have gained him warm friends, and he deserves to be ranked among the representative citizens of the state.