Adrian L. Fish Biography

	This biography appears on pages 1072-1073 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ADRIAN L. FISH, the able and popular clerk of the courts of Bon Homme 
county, was born in Adel, Dallas county, Iowa, on the 15th of November, 
1867, being a son of Abner K. and  Margaret E. (Wallace) Fish, of whose 
five children he is the eldest of the four surviving, the  others being 
as follows: Oliver, who is a resident of Good Springs, Nevada; Lillian, 
who is the  wife of James Farran, of Sioux City, Iowa; and Alice, who 
remains at the parental home. Abner  K. Fish was born in Reading, 
Pennsylvania, in the year 1845, and when he was a boy he  accompanied 
his parents on their removal to Iowa, where he was reared to maturity. 
His father,  Abner H. Fish, was one of the pioneer settlers of Dallas 
county, that state, where he took up  government land and engaged in 
farming, becoming one of the prominent citizens of that section. He 
lived to attain a patriarchal age, having died in the home of his son, 
Peter Fish, in the city of Chicago, at the age of ninety-eight years, 
having been a resident of Chicago about twenty years prior to his 
demise. The father of our subject enlisted for service in the Union army 
in 1863, being at the time eighteen years of age and going as a 
substitute for an elder brother, who had been drafted. He served until 
the close of the Rebellion, under command of General Sherman, and soon 
after his return to Iowa he was married, and he there continued to 
devote his attention to agricultural pursuits until 1873, when he came 
to Union county, South Dakota, which was yet a portion of the undivided 
territory of Dakota, and here he purchased a tract of land near Elk 
Point. where he continued to be engaged in farming and stock growing 
until 1881, when he removed to Sioux City, Iowa, where he engaged in the 
coal and wood business. In 1891 he removed thence to Texas county, 
Missouri, where he has ever since been engaged in the culture of fruit, 
being one of the honored and successful citizens of that locality. He is 
a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities and is a member of 
the Grand Army of the Republic.  

	Adrian L. Fish, whose name initiates this sketch, secured his 
preliminary education in the public schools of his native county, and he 
then entered the normal school at LeMars, Iowa, where he was graduated 
as a member of the class of 1889. He later attended the university at 
Vermillion South Dakota, for two years, and in 1890 he took a business 
course in the University of the Northwest, at Sioux City, Iowa. As early 
as his nineteenth year he inaugurated his efforts as a teacher in the 
public schools, and through his efforts in the pedagogic profession he 
earned the funds which enabled him to complete his collegiate work. In 
1891 he entered the law office of Carter & Brown, of Sioux City, and 
under their preceptorship continued the technical reading of the  about 
two years, becoming well grounded in the principles of the science of 
jurisprudence. In the spring of 1892 he came to Tyndall, South Dakota, 
and here was associated for one year with P. W. Smith, in the abstract 
business. At the expiration of this time he was appointed deputy 
register of deeds for Bon Homme county, in which capacity he rendered 
most efficient service for the ensuing four years, and in 1897 he was 
elected to his present responsible and exacting office of clerk of the 
courts, in which he has since served consecutively, which fact indicates 
the appreciative estimate placed upon his services. He was elected for a 
fourth term in the autumn election of 1902. In politics he accords an 
unfaltering allegiance to the Republican party. taking an active 
interest in the cause and contributing to the furtherance of the same in 
a local way. His religious faith is that of the congregational church, 
of which his wife likewise is a devoted member, and fraternally he is 
identified with Tyndall Lodge, No. 95, Independent Order of Odd Fellows: 
Istaska Tribe, No. 32, Improved Order of Red Men; and Tyndall Camp, No. 
2463, Modern Woodmen of America.  

	On the 31st of October, 1892, Mr. Fish was united in marriage to 
Miss Alice Renbow, of Sheldon, Iowa and of their four children two are 
living, Warren D. and Francis F.