Michael J. Dougherty

	This biography appears on pages 1037-1038 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	MICHAEL J. DOUGHERTY, one of the enterprising and popular young 
business men of Mount Vernon, Davison county, was born in Schuylkill 
county, Pennsylvania, on the 4th of June, 1868, and was there reared to 
the age of eight years, when, in 1876, he accompanied his parents on 
their removal to Wisconsin, the family locating in Waukesha county, 
where he received his educational training in the public schools, his 
father being- there engaged in farming until 1880, when he came to what 
is now the state of South Dakota and took up his residence in Davison 
county, being the first to enter claim to government land in this county 
and being the first settler in the present thriving village of Mount 
Vernon. He and his wife still reside here, honored pioneers, and he is 
sixty-six years of age at the time of this writing. The subject is a son 
of Michael and Mary (Flannagan) Dougherty, the former of whom was born 
in Pennsylvania and the latter in Ireland, and they are the parents of 
five children. They are members of the Catholic church, and in politics 
Mr. Dougherty is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic 
party. 

	Michael J. Dougherty, the immediate subject of this sketch, was about 
twelve years of age at the time of his parents' immigration to South 
Dakota, in the spring of 1880, and here he continued his studies in the 
public schools, while he assisted in the development of the homestead 
farm, being identified with the great basic art of agriculture until 
1899, when he established himself in the hardware business in Mount 
Vernon, where he has built up an excellent trade and is honored as one 
of the progressive and representative citizens of the town. In politics 
he gives his allegiance to the Democratic party, and his religious faith 
is that of the Catholic church, while fraternally he is identified with 
the Brotherhood of American Yeomen and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. In 1901, as candidate on the Citizens' ticket, he was elected 
village clerk of Mount Vernon, in which capacity he served three years.  

	On the 1st of November, 1899, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Dougherty to Miss Nellie Pollard, of Mt. Vernon, a daughter of Joseph 
Pollard, and of this union has been born, one son, Eugene.