Isaac S. Cramer Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1734-1735 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	ISAAC S. CRAMER has been a resident of South Dakota since the 
spring of 1881, and during all but a few months of the time has lived on 
the ranch which is now his home. He was born on April 19, 1858, in 
Indiana county, Pennsylvania, where he remained until he reached the age 
of twenty and received a district education. In the spring of 1878 he 
moved to Cowley county, Kansas, and occupied himself in farming, 
remaining there until the spring of 1881. He then came to Rapid City, 
arriving there in April of that year, and soon afterward took up the 
ranch on which he now resides and which has ever since been his home. It 
is pleasantly located on Rapid creek, ten miles from Rapid City, and 
through extensive and judicious irrigation and careful husbandry has 
been made one of the most desirable properties on the creek. Here he has 
been profitably engaged in the stock industry and farming his land which 
yields large crops of hay and other products. He also has a fine orchard 
of choice fruit which is very productive and profitable. He has been 
successful and prosperous in his business and is one of the leading men 
engaged in it in this part of the state. He is a progressive and public-
spirited man in reference to the general welfare of the community, 
always at the front in every commendable undertaking involving this, and 
in politics is an ardent and active Republican, but he has never 
accepted public office of any kind. 

	On January 24, 1889 Mr. Cramer was married, at Rapid City, to Miss 
Ora L. Barnes, a native of Iowa. They have four children, Florence, 
William L., Francis E. and James A. Mr. Cramer belongs to the order of 
Modern Woodmen of America, with membership in the camp at Rapid City.