John Fagan

	This biography appears on page 998 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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JOHN FAGAN. —The well-improved and valuable ranch of the subject 
is eligibly located, in Potter county, ten miles southeast of the 
thriving town of Gettysburg, and he is known as one of the energetic and 
successful farmers and stock growers of this section of the state.  

Mr. Fagan is a native of Iowa, and his father emigrated from the 
fair Emerald Isle to America, first locating in the city of 
Philadelphia, and later becoming a pioneer of Iowa.  

Mr. Fagan passed his youthful years in Iowa and Illinois, and his 
educational advantages were those afforded by the public schools. He 
came to South Dakota in 1884, and in the following spring he took up 
government land ten miles southeast of Forest City, Potter county, and 
there devoted his attention to farming and stock raising until 1900, 
when he disposed of his property in that location and purchased his 
present fine estate, which is one of the valuable places of this portion 
of the state, the same being equipped with substantial buildings and 
having excellent facilities for the raising of stock as well as for the 
raising of large crops of farm products best adapted to the soil and 
climate.