Oliver P. Auld Biography


	This biography appears on page 1107 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	OLIVER P. AULD, one of the representative business men of 
Plankinton, Aurora county, is a native of the city of Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 20th of March, 1855, and when he 
was a child of two years his parents removed westward to Benton county, 
Iowa, where he was reared to maturity, his educational training having 
been received in the public schools of Iowa and Illinois. At the age of 
seventeen years he left school and initiated his independent career, 
having been engaged in agricultural pursuits for a few years thereafter 
in Iowa, after which he engaged in the mercantile business in Vinton, 
that state, conducting the enterprise for three years, at the expiration 
of which, in 1883, he came to the territory of Dakota and took up his 
residence in Plankinton, Aurora county, where he established a general 
mercantile business, building up an excellent trade and devoting his 
attention to the same for four years. He then disposed of his interests 
in the line and engaged in the abstract business, in which he has ever 
since continued, having a representative support and being thoroughly 
equipped for the facile handling of all work involved, while he is known 
as an expert in the line and as one of the best judges of realty values 
in this section of the state. In the real-estate department of his 
business he has handled most valuable properties in various sections of 
the state, showing marked discrimination in his operations and being 
recognized as one of the reliable and straightforward real-estate men of 
the state, while upon his books are always to be found details in regard 
to most desirable investments. He is at the present time rendering 
effective service as receiver of the Bank of Plankinton, which went into 
liquidation in 1900. In politics he is staunchly aligned in support of 
the principles and policies of the Republican party, in whose interests 
he has been an active worker, having frequently been a delegate to 
county and state conventions. For ten years he was chairman of the board 
of county commissioners, while for four years he was incumbent of the 
office of president of the village council, ably managing and directing 
the executive department of the municipal government, while he has also 
held other village offices, ever manifesting a marked loyalty and public 
spirit and being one of the representative citizens of the county. He 
and his wife are prominent and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. 

	On the 4h of October, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Auld to Miss Nellie Hoon, of Vinton, Iowa, and they are the parents of 
four children, Clarence, Leslie, Glenn and Nellie.