Samuel Edgar Forest Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1379-1380 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	SAMUEL EDGAR FOREST, cashier of the First National Bank of 
Britton, Marshall county, is a native of the city of Brooklyn, New York, 
where he was born on the 23d of April, 1865, being a son of Samuel A. 
and Lydia E. (Mortimer) Forest, the former of whom was born in England 
and the latter in the state of New York, while they are now living in 
St. Paul, Minnesota, moving there from Brooklyn in 1886, the father 
being a merchant by vocation. The subject of this sketch was reared to 
manhood in his native city, in whose public schools he secured his early 
educational discipline, while in 1880;he entered the celebrated 
Polytechnic Institute of that city, where he completed the collegiate 
course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1884. He initiated 
his business career in 1884, when he entered the employ of the Standard 
Oil Company, in New York city. He remained with that company for three 
years. In 1887 he came west to St. Paul, and in 1889 to Britton, South 
Dakota, and engaged in the lumber and coal business in the firm of 
Hamilton & Forest. He served as county treasurer of Marshall county in 
1896. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Bank, of which he 
was cashier, but when the Citizens' was succeeded by the First National 
Bank he continued as cashier of the latter. 

	In politics Mr. Forest is a member of the Republican party. 
Fraternally he is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
belonging to the chapter and commandery, and the Ancient Arabic Order of 
the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; also to the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen and the local organzation of the Mutual Benefit Association. 

	On the 24th of January, 1900, Mr. Forest was united in marriage to 
Miss Frances C. Hall, who was born in Canandaigua, New York, being a 
daughter of S. P. and Mary Hall. They have one daughter, Margaret 
Elizabeth.