M. N. Vandal 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 54

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


M. N. Vandal came from Montreal to Nebraska in 1859, then to Pierre in 1862, 
returned to Nebraska and arrived in Charles Mix county in 1873, and has 
remained here since. He was in various parts of the county until 1879 when
he settled two miles east of Wheeler on the military reservation as a
squatter where he remained four years. In 1884 he came to the south bank
of Lake Andes where he now resides. When the county was organized in 1879 he
was appointed county surveyor, and in November of the same year he was
elected as assessor and surveyor, failing to qualify for the latter office.
His wife is a quarter blood Sioux. She and her children have some of the
most valuable land in the county on the bank of Lake Andes.