Christian Friederich Biography


	This biography appears on page 930 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHRISTIAN FRIEDERICH, a successful banker of the town of Tripp, 
Hutchinson county, was born in the southern part of Russia, on the 14th 
of November, 1854, and was there reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
farm, receiving a common-school education. In 1876 he emigrated to 
America, arriving in Yankton, South Dakota, on the 5th of May of that 
year. Shortly afterward he took up a homestead claim four miles east of 
the present village of Tripp, Hutchinson county, and there he took up 
his abode and turned his attention to the improving of his farm, being 
dependent upon his own exertions for a livelihood. He was there engaged 
in farming and stock growing about ten years, and his success was 
cumulative, owing to his energy and good management. In 1886, when the 
town of Tripp was founded, he came here as one of the first settlers. 
He had learned the trade of shoemaking in his native land, and upon 
locating in the new town he opened a shoe and harness shop and thus 
became numbered among the first business men of the village. He carried 
on this enterprise one year, after which he was employed as clerk in a 
local hardware establishment about six months. He then engaged in the 
buying and shipping of hogs and grain. In 1893 Mr. Friederich embarked 
in the hardware and farming-implement business, which he continued 
about two years, in the meanwhile carrying on the operation of his 
grain elevator and the shipping of hogs, with which enterprise he was 
prominently concerned until 1901, having built up an extensive and' 
prosperous business. In 1897 the subject also established himself in 
the general merchandise business, and this branch of his enterprise he 
continued until the fall of 1899, when he disposed of his interests in 
the same. In March, 1903, he purchased the Tripp State Bank, and he is 
now devoting his attention primarily to the management of the 
institution, which stands in high favor and controls a large and 
representative business. He is a stalwart supporter of the Republican 
party, but has never sought or desired official preferment. He and his 
wife are prominent and honored members of the Lutheran church.  

	In the year 1875 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Friederich to 
Miss Christina Vetter, who was born and reared in southern Russia, and 
of their ten children six are yet living, namely: Christiana, Jr., 
George, Edward, Carl O. Lydia and Leonora.