Phillip M. Bonniwell Biography


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	PHILLIP M. BONNIWELL, civil engineer and merchant, also engaged 
in the live-stock business, was born in McCloud county, Minnesota, July 
14, 1860. After obtaining a good education in the schools of his native 
state Mr. Bonniwell took up the study of civil engineering, in which he 
soon acquired a high degree of efficiency and skill, following which he 
was engaged in professional work in Minnesota, until the spring of 1878, 
when he came to South Dakota, reaching the Black Hills on June 22d of 
that year. Locating at Deadwood, he at once began working at his 
profession in the city and vicinity, and was thus engaged until 1883, 
when he embarked in the live-stock business on Willow creek, about 
twenty-five miles north of Whitewood, raising cattle in that locality 
during the five succeeding years. At the expiration of that time Mr. 
Bonniwell moved his live stock to Harding county, where he owns a large 
and finely situated ranch which he still manages, his success as a 
cattle raiser being attested by the prominent position he occupies among 
the leading stockmen of his part of the state. 

	In the fall of 1897 Mr. Bonniwell purchased of J. S. Denman the 
latter s large hardware store at Whitewood, and to this line of business 
he has since devoted much of his attention, the meanwhile looking after 
his cattle interests, as indicated above. In addition to a full line of 
hardware, he handles all kinds of agricultural implements, machinery and 
harness, in all of which he has an extensive and lucrative patronage, 
his establishment being the largest of the kind in Whitewood. Mr. 
Bonniwell is an experienced business man, and his career since coming 
west presents a series of advancements, which show him the possessor of 
ripe judgment and keen discrimination. Personally he enjoys a high 
degree of popularity, and in social as well as business circles is one 
of the leading men of the community. Mr. Bonniwell belongs to the Odd 
Fellows order and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and in politics 
supports the Republican party. He was married at Hutchinson, Minnesota, 
November 26, 1877, to Miss Lura Rice, a native of Ohio, who has borne 
him one child, a daughter by the name of Reva.