Adolph W. Ewert Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ADOLPH W. EWERT, cashier of the National Bank of Commerce, No. 
4279, at Pierre, is a native of the Badger state, having been born in 
Burr Oak, La Crosse county, Wisconsin, on the 18th of June, 1865, and is 
a son of Edward and Mina (Habermann) Ewert, the former of whom was born 
in Prussia, Germany, of staunch German lineage while the latter came of 
French and German stock. They accompanied their respective families to 
America when children, and their marriage was solemnized at La Crosse, 
Wisconsin, where they remained until about 1857, being thus numbered 
among the pioneers of that state. The father of the subject acquired the 
trade of blacksmith in his youth, and he followed the same for several 
years in Burr Oak, Wisconsin and then removed to West Salem, that state, 
where he became a successful manufacturer of wagons, sleighs and various 
types of farming implements, there conducting a prosperous wholesale and 
retail business along these lines for about a decade, at the expiration 
of which he removed to Pipestone, Minnesota, where he continued to bt. 
engaged in the agricultural implement business until I89I, when he 
retired to his farm near that place, where he and his estimable wife 
still reside, being well advanced in years and being honored and 
influential citizens of their community. 

	The subject of this review secured his early educational 
discipline in the public schools of West Salem, Wisconsin, completing a 
course in the high school. At the age of fifteen years he began to 
render active assistance to his father in his business operations, and 
later devoted two years to the study of law, under the direction of able 
attorneys of Pipestone, Minnesota. Before completing his technical 
studies he accepted a position in the counting room of the Pipestone 
County Rank, retaining this incumbency two years and gaining an intimate 
knowledge of the practical details of the business. In 1890 he came to 
Pierre and accepted his present position as cashier of the National Bank 
of Commerce, and he has proved a most able and discriminating executive 
officer and has done much to further the interests of the institution, 
in which he is a stockholder. The bank is capitalized for one hundred 
thousand dollars and its stockholders are numbered among the leading 
capitalists and substantial business men of the state. 

	Mr. Ewert enjoys marked popularity in both business and social 
circles, and no better mark of the confidence reposed in him by the 
people of the capital city could be asked than that shown in his 
election to the mayoralty of Pierre in 1902, and his re-election, 
without opposition, in 1904. He is one of the most progressive 
executives the municipal government has ever had, and directs the 
affairs of the city with much discernment, scrupulous care and fidelity 
and upon the strictest of business principles. In politics the mayor 
gives an unqualified allegiance to the Republican party, and fraternally 
he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights 
of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of the 
Maccabees, and the Modern Brotherhood of America. Both he and his wife 
are valued members of the Baptist church. 

	On the 30th of September, 1890, Mr. Ewert was united in marriage 
to Miss Caroline E. Dutcher, who was born in Sanilac county, Michigan, 
being a daughter of Byron M. and Rebecca Dutcher. Mr. and Mrs. Ewert 
have two sons, Winfred Edward and Mark H.