Lizziam Archambean Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	LIZZIAM ARCHAMBEAN, who resides in the pleasant village of Geddes, 
Charles Mix county, is of English extraction and was born in Canada, in 
the year 1833, being there reared to the age of seventeen years and 
securing limited educational advantages in his youth, while he has been 
dependent upon his own resources from his boyhood days and is worthy of 
the honored American title of self-made man. At the age noted he located 
in the lumbering district of Wisconsin, where he secured employment in 
rafting logs down the Wisconsin river, working in the great timber 
forests during the winter months. He remained in Wisconsin about four 
years and then went to St. Louis, where he met a fellow countryman, with 
whom he remained some time, having been employed in the city and 
vicinity for two and one-half years, at the expiration of which he went 
down the Mississippi river to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he remained 
one year. He then made the trip up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers 
into the territory of Dakota, arriving here in the year 1859. He found 
employment for two years at Fort Randall, and he then began to contract 
for the cutting of logs for use at the garrison, and also got out 
considerable timber for use in the building of boats. The white settlers 
were few and far between during those early years, and the great plains 
were swept by great herds of buffaloes, while elk, deer and bears roamed 
about almost unmolested, save as hunted by the Indians. In 1862 Mr. 
Archambean was united in marriage to Miss Adaline Vassor, and they are 
the parents of ten children, Battia, Joseph, Mary, Julia, Moses, Louis, 
Annie, Adeline, Josie and Sophia. Mr. Archambean began farming in South 
Dakota as early as the year 1867, and he is at the present time the 
owner of two hundred and forty acres of land, of which eighty acres are 
under effective cultivation, while the remainder is utilized principally 
for grazing purposes. He rents the farm and is living practically 
retired in Geddes. He is a staunch adherent of the Democratic party, and 
served for some time as road overseer, and both he and his wife are 
communicants of the Catholic church.