F. D. Pease Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County" (1906),published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 52

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
	non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved.

F. D. Pease, now deceased, settled on Pease island in 1857 and remained seven 
or eight years. His wife was a quarter-blood Crow, said to have been a very
beautiful woman. Pease was engaged in trade on the frontier and had many and 
varied interests, and before his death became very wealthy. He was the first 
representative from Charles Mix county to the territorial legislature. He is 
described as a man of good education, a good speaker in public, and had fine
business abilities. C. Ed. Anderson says of him that he, like all other traders 
of his time, "lived on an island with a keg of whiskey." From here he went to 
Ft. Berthold, Montana, later became agent to the Crows, and was sent to congress 
from that state.