Charles H. Fales


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	CHARLES H. FALES, who is now incumbent of the office of 
postmaster at Fort Pierre, is a native of the state of Missouri, having 
been born in the city of St. Joseph, Buchanan county, on the 16th of 
November, 1868, and being a son of Richard P. and Mary F. (Striblin) 
Fales, the former of whom was born in Indiana and the latter in 
Missouri. The parents of the subject came to Fort Pierre in 1881, and 
here the father continued to reside until his death, on the 30th of 
August, 1898, at the age of fifty-five years, his vocation here having 
been that of blacksmith. His widow still resides in Fort Pierre, and of 
their six children four are living at the present time. The subject of 
this sketch received his early educational discipline in the public 
schools of his beautiful native city, on the shores of the Missouri 
river, and was fifteen years of age at the time of the family removal 
to what is now the state of South Dakota, where he was reared to 
manhood. From the age of fifteen until 1894 he was in the employ of 
various stock growers in this section, and he then opened his present 
store in Fort Pierre, and has built up a prosperous business, while he 
has continued to be identified with the cattle industry from the time 
of establishing his store to the present, being the owner of much good 
land in this county. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the 
Republican party, to whose cause he has given his support from the time 
of attaining his legal majority, having cast his first presidential 
vote for Harrison and having been an active worker in the party ranks. 
In 1897 he was appointed postmaster at Fort Pierre, and has ever since 
continued in tenure of this office, whose affairs he has administered 
to the satisfaction of the local public. He is well known throughout 
the county in which he has maintained-his home for more than a score of 
years, and his friends are in number as his acquaintances. He is a 
Mason, being identified with Hiram Lodge No. 123, Free and Accepted 
Masons, and has attained to all the Scottish Rite degrees, being a 
member of Oriental Consistory No. 1, at Yankton, and also of the 
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Sioux Falls. 
He is also a member of Capital City Lode No. 37, Knights of Pythias.