Edmund A. Barlow Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1509-1510 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	EDMUND A. BARLOW, who is register of deeds of Lyman county, is 
one of the honored pioneers of the state and is at the present time 
president of the Old Settlers' Association of the county. He was born in 
Eaton, province of Quebec. Canada, on the 14th of February, 1855, and is 
a son of George F. and Ann (Day) Barlow, both of whom were born in the 
state of New Hampshire, whence they removed to the province of Quebec in 
the same year in which their marriage was solemnized, passing the 
remainder of their lives in the dominion of Canada, the father being a 
carpenter and inventor. The subject received his early educational 
training in his native province, and at the age of seventeen years 
removed thence to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he continued to attend 
school as opportunity afforded, defraying his expenses for a time by 
clerking in mercantile establishments and later by teaching in the 
public schools. In 1879 he attended the Wisconsin State Normal School, 
at River Falls, and in the following year came to what is now the state 
of South Dakota, locating in Flandreau, Moody county, where he secured a 
clerical position in the important mercantile house of the W. Tones 
Company. About three years later he purchased the business, which he 
successfully continued until 1887, when he disposed of the same and 
purchased the general merchandise business of Ross Whalen, in Artesian, 
Sanborn county, South Dakota. In the fall of 1889 he removed thence to 
Chamberlain. South Dakota, purchasing a stock of general merchandise and 
preparing to engage in business immediately upon the opening of the 
Sioux Indian reservation to settlement, this occurring the following 
spring. He then brought his stock of goods to Lyman, where he continued 
his mercantile business about eighteen months, at the expiration of 
which he sold out and engaged in ranching, to which line of enterprise 
he successfully gave his attention until June 1903 when he disposed of 
his interests in that line, in order to assume the duties of his present 
office. He is a staunch adherent of the Democratic party, and in 1890 he 
was appointed postmaster at Lyman, serving about three years. He also 
served one term as county superintendent of schools and four years as 
justice of the peace ever proving worthy of the confidence reposed in 
him by the people of the county. In November, 1902, Mr. Barlow was 
elected to his present office, that of register of deeds, for which he 
is specially well qualified. He has ever taken a lively interest in 
educational affairs in the county and has done much to advance the 
cause. He is a member of Flandreau Lodge, No. 11, Free and Accepted 
Masons: Pilgrim Chapter, No. 32, Royal Arch Masons; Cyrene Comn1andery, 
No. 2 Knights Templar, at Sioux Falls, and Lodge No. 9449, Modern 
Woodmen of America. He has served as president of the Old Settlers' 
Association of Lyman county since 1900, is well known throughout this 
section and is held in the highest esteem in business and social 
circles. 

	On the 23d of November, 1883, Mr. Barlow was united in marriage to 
Miss Carrie Jones, of Flandreau, this state, no children having been 
born of this union.