Everett H. Day Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	EVERETT H. DAY, the treasurer of Day township, Clark county, is a 
native of the old Pine Tree state, having been born in Lovel. Maine, on 
the 17th of January, 1850, and being a son of Thomas and Abigail A. 
(Phipps) Day, the former of who was a shoemaker by trade, while he was 
also identified with the lumbering industry in Maine. In 1853 he removed 
family to Berlin, Wisconsin, and there he followed his trade during the 
winter months, while in the intervening summer seasons he was engaged in 
the manufacturing of brick. In 1862 he removed to Mankato, Minnesota, 
becoming one of the early settlers of that now attractive city. He was 
there residing during the disastrous outbreak of the Sioux Indians, and 
assisted in the building of the stockade in Winnebago City, while he 
remained on the frontier until the Indian troubles had subsided. In the 
following autumn he returned to Wisconsin for his family, who 
accompanied him on his return to Mankato, where they were residing at 
the time of the execution of thirty-eight Sioux Indian prisoners, on the 
26th of December, 1862. In the summer of the following year they took up 
their residence on a homestead near Winnebago City, where they remained 
until 1876, when they removed to Nemaha county, Kansas. The father died 
in 1898 at Seneca, Kansas, aged eighty-four years, while the mother died 
in 1871 on the farm near Winnebago City, Minnesota. 

	The subject of this review secured his rudimentary educational 
discipline in Berlin, Wisconsin, and thereafter continued his 
educational work in the common schools of the various points which 
constituted the family home for certain intervals. When he left school, 
in 1873, he was well advanced in the high school at Winnebago City, but 
was not graduated. He engaged in teaching school during the winter of 
1873-4, but his natural tastes and inclinations led him to adopt farming 
and stock growing as a permanent vocation. Upon his remova1 to Kansas, 
as stated, he opened up a new farm on the prairies of Nemaha county, and 
was there engaged in farming and stock raising until 1884, when he 
disposed of his stock and came to what is now the state of South Dakota. 
His brother Edward W., who was born in Berlin, Wisconsin, in 1857, was 
the first treasurer of Clark county, South Dakota, and here his death 
occurred in 1883, which circumstance was the cause of our subject's 
coming to the state, and he settled on one of the tracts of land owned 
by the brother at the time of his death. He at once initiated the work 
of improving the property and has resided on this farm ever since, while 
he has since added to his lauded estate until he now has a well-improved 
and valuable farm of four hundred and eighty acres, and is here 
successfully engaged in diversified agriculture and stock growing, while 
he is also giving special attention to the dairying business, which he 
finds a profitable adjunct to his farming enterprise. 

	Mr. Day has held public office of some description almost 
continuously since taking up his residence in the county, the township 
of which he is a resident having been named in honor of his brother, 
previously mentioned, who was one of its first settlers. In 1886, the 
subject was elected township clerk and justice of the peace, serving in 
these offices consecutively thereafter until 1900, while for about a 
decade he was incumbent of the offices of school clerk, treasurer and 
director. He is at the present time township treasurer and also 
treasurer of his school district, while he has ever stood prominently 
forward as a progressive and public-spirited citizen and able business 
man. The most important semi-public enterprise which has secured his 
valued support and co-operation is that of the Clark Co-operative 
Creamery Association, of which he was one of the organizers, in 1896. 
The disbursements of the corporation in 1897 aggregated two thousand and 
seven dollars and eighty-seven cents, and the business has steadily and 
gradually increased in scope and importance until its disbursements in 
1903 reached the notable aggregate of forty-seven thousand, three 
hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-two cents. At the first 
meeting of the stockholders of the association Mr. Day was elected its 
president, and has ever since remained its chief executive, through 
annual re-election, while he has been designated as the father of the 
association, whose plant is now the largest in the state exclusive of 
three which operate skimming stations. In 1904 Mr. Day took an active 
part in organizing the Clark County Farmers' Electric Company, 
incorporated with a capital of twenty thousand dollars and at its first 
meeting of the board of directors he was elected president of the 
company. In politics he has ever given an uncompromising allegiance to 
the Republican party, and he was a delegate to its first state 
convention in South Dakota, the same having been held in Chamberlain, 
while he is usually active in the various local campaigns, while for the 
past ten years he has held the position of superintendent, judge, and 
clerk of elections in the county, and he was a delegate to the state 
convention of his party, in Sioux Falls, in 1900. For several years he 
was a member of the secret society known as the Brotherhood of Purpose, 
and was a member of the directorate of the order. In March, 1900, he 
became affiliated with the Modern Brotherhood of America, a fraternal 
insurance order. In 1887 he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church in Seneca, Kansas, and has ever since been a zealous and valued 
member of this denomination, being at the present time a member of the 
board of directors of the church at Clark. 

	On the 5th of September, 1885, at Nashville, Minnesota, Mr. Day 
was united in marriage to Miss Mary Bottomley, a daughter of James and 
Mary Bottomley, both of whom were born and reared in England, while they 
were numbered among the pioneers of Minnesota, where Mr. Bottomley 
served in various positions of public trust, including that of probate 
judge of Martin county. Mr. and Mrs. Day have two children, Lula C., who 
was born June 22, 1886, and Mark M., who was born January 9, 1893.