Frederic T. Cuthbert

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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FREDERIC T. CUTHBERT, of Canton, the present incumbent of the 
office of county judge of  Lincoln county, was born in Whiting, Monona 
county, Iowa, on the 2d of April, 1876, being a  son of Rev. Thomas and 
Emily J. (Denham) Cuthbert, the former being a clergyman of the  
Methodist Episcopal church. While the subject was a mere child his 
parents removed to  Mapleton, Iowa, where they resided a number of 
years, thence removing to Rolfe, that state,  and there remaining about 
two years. When Frederic was fifteen years of age he accompanied  his 
parents to England, their native land, and the family continued to abide 
in the "tight little isle"  about four years, during the major portion 
of which time our subject continued his educational  discipline in a 
private school. In 1883 the family home was established in Sioux Falls, 
South  Dakota and the father soon afterward located on a farm near this 
city, our subject attending the  public schools here until the removal 
to England, as noted. The subject returned to the United  States in 1895 
and located in Canton, South Dakota.  

	In 1895 Mr. Cuthbert took up the study of law in the office of A. 
R. Brown, of Canton, and he  was admitted to the bar of the state on the 
13th of May, 1897. He forthwith established himself  in practice in this 
place, entering into partnership with M. E. Rudolph. A few months later 
he  formed a professional alliance with L. J. Jones, with whom he was 
associated until May, 1901,  in the meanwhile gaining a reputation as an 
able advocate and counsellor. Upon the dissolution  of this partnership 
Mr. Cuthbert formed a partnership with A. B. Carlson, under the firm  
name of Cuthbert & Carlson, and this association has since obtained, the 
firm controlling a  representative business.  

	Judge Cuthbert has always been a stanch advocate of the principles 
and policies of the  Republican party, and he took a particularly active 
part in the campaign of 1896, doing  effective work in the party cause, 
as has he also done in subsequent campaigns. In 1900 he  delivered more 
than twenty speeches in advocacy of the Republican principles, and he is  
known as one of the most able young public speakers in the state. In the 
spring of 1898 he was  elected justice of the peace in Canton, retaining 
this incumbency one year, and in 1900 he was  elected city attorney, 
serving one term. In the autumn of that year still more distinguished  
preferment came to him in his election to the office of county judge, in 
which judicial capacity  his services met with so marked popular 
approval that he was chosen as his own successor in  the election of 
1902, being thus in tenure of the office at the time of this writing. 
Fraternally,  Judge Cuthbert is identified with Silver Star Lodge, No. 
4, Free and Accepted Masons, Siroc  Chapter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons, 
and with Canton Lodge, No. 52 Knights of Pythias, all  of Canton.