Warren Dimock Biography


	This biography appears on page 1222 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	WARREN DIMOCK, of Menno, Hutchinson county, was born in Iowa 
county, Wisconsin, on the 14th of September, 1859, a son of Warren S. 
and Lucy J. (Munson) Dimock, of whose seven children the following named 
five are yet living: Harry A., a druggist of Muscoda, Wisconsin: Almena, 
the wife of E. G. Schwingle, of Avoca, that state; Asa B., who is 
likewise a resident of that place, being a farmer and manufacturer; 
Bertha R., wife of Oscar Spicer, of Mason City, Iowa; and Warren, 
subject of this sketch, who is eldest of the number. 

	The father of the subject was born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, 
in 1819, and was there reared and educated, removing thence to Wisconsin 
in 1855 and settling on a farm near Avoca, Iowa county, where he was 
engaged in agricultural pursuits until the spring of 1903, when he 
removed to the village mentioned, where he is now living retired, having 
attained the venerable age of eighty-four years, and being well 
preserved in mind and physical powers. He is one of the pioneers of the 
Badger state, where he purchased government land soon after his arrival 
within its borders, and he resided continuously on the one farm for 
forty-eight years. He is a Democrat in politics and is a man who has 
ever commanded the unqualified esteem of all who know him. His wife, who 
was born in the same town as was he, is still by his side, being sixty-
eight years of age at the time of this writing (1903).

	The subject of this review was reared on the homestead farm and 
after completing the curriculum of the public schools he continued his 
studies at the Plattville Normal school, at Plattville, Wisconsin. He 
taught school for three winter terms, working on the farm during the 
summer seasons. He continued to be identified with the operation of the 
home farm until 1886, but in the meanwhile had devoted careful attention 
to the reading of law. In the year mentioned he located in Muscoda, 
Wisconsin, where he was engaged in the real-estate and insurance 
business. until 1889, when he came to Hutchinson county, South Dakota, 
locating in Menno, where he was employed for the ensuing year as 
assistant cashier in the Menno State Bank. In March, 1890, he was 
admitted to the bar and forthwith began the practice of his profession 
in Menno, where he has since resided, having secured a representative 
clientele and established a high reputation as an able advocate and safe 
and conservative counsel. He is a stalwart adherent of the Republican 
party, and in the fall of 1890 he was elected state's attorney for his 
county, serving one term, while in 1898 he was again called to this 
office, serving two consecutive terms and making a most excellent record 
as prosecutor. He is a member of Muscoda Lodge, No. 70, Free and 
Accepted Masons, at Muscoda, Wisconsin; of Scotland Chapter, No. 31, 
Royal Arch Masons, at Scotland, South Dakota; and of Menno Camp, No. 
3071, Modern Woodmen of America. 

	On the 15th of December, 1886, Mr. Dimock was united in marriage 
to Miss Clara A. Stevens, of Monfort, Wisconsin, and they became the 
parents of two children; Murray S., who died at the age of fifteen 
months; and Lucy N.. who remains at the parental home.