Historical - Thomas T. Sargent and Lemuel O. Peppard Families - Devils Lake, North Dakota

From History of McLeod County, Minnesota published by H. C. Cooper
Jr & Co., Chicago and Winona, 1917 and submitted by A. J. Myers,
15 Campden Circle, San Antonio, Texas, 1998.

Thomas T. Sargent, whose death, February 28, 1916, de-
prived the city of Hutchinson of one of its oldest and most
respected residents, was born in Parkersburg, W. Va., August
22, 1828 son of Henry and Mary (Steel) Sargent. In his
Younger days Mr. Sargent was captain of the "Tom Scott" a
steamer on the Ohio river, and at Louisa, Ky., met Rachel
Myers, to whom he was married March 20, 1854. She was a
daughter of William and Matilda (Gividon) Myers. They
located at Catlettsburg Ky., where thcy remained ten years,
during which time Capt. Sargent pursued his occupation on the
river. In June, 1864, he gave it up, on account of his health,
and came to Minnesota, taking a homestead in Hutchinson
township, where he remained four years. He then moved his
family to the village of Hutchinson and opened a cooper shop.
He also conducted a drug store for several Years, was post-
master of Hutchinson eight years and served as probate judge
eight years, retiring from active life in 1900. At his death,
16 years later, he had attained the advanced age of 87 years.
His career had embraced two widely different phases of
American life. From riverman in the South under the old
regime, to farmer, merchant and public official in one of the
great and then largely unsettled Northwestern states, was a
sudden and radical change, but was beneficial, and Mr Sargent
soon found his place in the new community and made his
strength and influence felt. He and his wife had four children:
Wilbur, who died at the age of five years; Jettie, born July
15, 1862, who graduated from the musical department of Ham-
line University, taught music eight years in Hutchinson and
is now Mrs. L. 0. Peppard, of Minneapolis; Lulu, wife of Harry
Kline, a farmer of Dickinson, N. Dak., and Mary. Lulu was
first married to A. E. Martin, a contractor in Minneapolis, who
died in 1912. Of this marriage there is one child, a daughter,
Jettie. Mrs. Thomas T. Sargent, who survives her husband,
lives with her daughter, Mrs. Peppard. 

Lemuel 0. Peppard,
railroad contractor and bridge builder, was born at DeBert,
Nova Scotia, March 17, 1862, son of John and Mary (Davis)
Peppard. Coming to Minneapolis in 1881, he worked as car-
penter seven years and then engaged in his present business
of contracting. He was married March 16, 1886, to Jettie Sar-
gent of Hutchinson, and they have one child, Albert, born
December 6, 1887. 

Albert Peppard graduated from the medical
department of the University of Minnesota in 1912, spent
one year in the city and county hospital at St. Paul and then
practiced 14 months with Dr. Head in the Donaldson building,
Minneapolis. He moved to Devil's Lake, North Dakota, Sep-
tember 1, 1915, and is now engaged in medical practice there.
He married Elizabeth Shrader, of Springfield, Minn., De-
cember 4, 1912, and they have one child, Lemuel, born August
25, 1915.