Allen W. Carey Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1553-1554 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ALLEN W. CAREY, one of the enterprising farmers and stock raisers 
of Custer county, has been an honored resident of South Dakota since the 
year 1877. He was born September 27, 1831, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and 
grew to maturity on a farm near that city, receiving a fair education. 
On attaining his majority he engaged in agriculture upon his own 
responsibility and continued the same in his native state until 1856, 
when he disposed of his interests there and went to Des Moines, Iowa, 
near which place he also turned his attention to tilling the soil. When 
the great Rebellion broke out he tendered his services to the 
government, enlisting in 1861 in Company B, Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, 
with which he served with an honorable record until the close of the 
war, being musteted out in 1865. 

	Immediately after his discharge, Mr. Carey returned to his Iowa 
farm, where he remained until the year 1876, when he sold out and, 
moving to Nebraska, took up a homestead near the city of Lincoln. His 
residence in the latter state was of short duration, however, for in 
February of the following year he sold his land and came to South 
Dakota, where for some time thereafter he gave his attention to 
prospecting and mining in various parts of the Black Hills. Later, in 
April, 1880, he went to Battle creek and took up a ranch about six miles 
from the town of Hermosa, and on this place he has since lived and 
prospered as a farmer and cattle raiser, meeting with marked success in 
both pursuits. Mr. Carey has labored hard to improve his place, and made 
a comfortable home for his declining years, and by good management and 
thrift he is now the possessor of a sufficiency of this world's goods to 
render his future from care or anxiety. 

	Mr. Carey, on November 23, 1854, was married, in the city of 
Indianapolis, to Miss Mary Miller, of Indiana, the union being blessed 
with five children: Mrs. Sarah Perry, Mrs. Frances Alley, Mrs. Alice 
Chevront, Mrs. Ella Prouty and James H. Carey.