Daniel Bruner Getty Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1464-1465 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DANIEL BRUNER GETTY, of Sioux Falls was born in Providence Square, 
Mbntgomery county, Pennsylvania, on the 10th of February, 1865, and is a 
son of David Todd Getty, who was likewise born in the old Keystone 
state, the lineage being of German and Irish extraction. When our 
subject was about two years of age his parents removed to Iowa, and in 
the public schools of Belle Plain, that state, he received his early 
educational discipline. In the spring of 1885 he secured a clerkship in 
the office of the Iowa Mutual Benefit Association, an assessment life-
insurance company, at Toledo, Iowa, where he remained until the autumn 
of 1886, when he came to Sioux Falls, to enter the employ of the Fargo 
Insurance Company, fire underwriters. In the spring of the following 
year he accepted a clerical position in the office of Hon. Nyrum E. 
Phillips, register of deeds of Minnehaha county, and he continued to be 
thereafter identified with the work of the register's office during the 
major portion of the time until the spring of 1893, having had practical 
control of the abstract department of the office during this interval. 
In the spring of the year mentioned Mr. Phillips was appointed warden of 
the South Dakota state penitentiary, in Sioux Falls, and the subject of 
this sketch was appointed clerk in the same institution, and both 
retained these respective offices until May 10, 1899, when they 
resigned, owing principally to the fact that a Populist governor had 
been elected the preceding autumn. Mr. Getty has been successfully 
established in the abstract business since August 27, 1899, and his long 
experience in connection with the practical work of the office of 
register of deeds has made his judgment in regard to real-estate in this 
section authoritative, and he has gained a high reputation for accurate, 
neat and altogether admirable abstract work, while this fact, as coupled 
with his personal popularity, has gained to him a distinctively 
representative support. In politics Mr. Getty is a staunch advocate of 
the principles and policies of the Republican party, in whose cause he 
takes a lively interest, and fraternally he is affiliated with the local 
organizations of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen. Both he and his wife hold membership in 
the Congregational church. 

	On the 27th of June, 1899, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Getty to Miss Blanche I. Metcalf, who was born at Lake Benton, 
Minnesota, on the 27th of June, 1873, being a daughter of Edward S. and 
Anna Metcalf.