O. C. Dokken Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1439 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	O. C. DOKKEN, cashier of the Farmers' Exchange Bank at Toronto, 
Deuel county, was born in Eidsvold, Norway, in 1858. In 1869 he 
immigrated with his parents to the United States, where they took up 
their residence at Rushford, Minnesota, where they remained till 1873, 
when the family moved west and came to what is now the state of South 
Dakota, when they took a homestead near Fish Lake, Deuel county, being 
among the first settlers in that part of the state. After spending his 
youth on his father's farm in Deuel county, Mr. Dokken entered the 
normal school at Mankato, Minnesota, in 1882, and graduated from that 
institution as a member of the class of 1887. Before, as well as after 
finishing his course at the normal, he turned his attention to teaching, 
and in the fall of 1888 was elected to the office of superintendent of 
schools of Deuel county, which position he occupied for six years. 
Thereafter he was for seven or eight years engaged in the general 
merchandise business in Toronto and in 1902 he was made incumbent of his 
present position, that of cashier of the Farmers' Exchange Bank. In 
politics Mr. Dokken is Republican. He is married and has a family of 
four children.