Delmont Goldsmith Biography

	This biography appears on pages 1031-1032 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DELMONT GOLDSMITH, who was the founder of the Commercial State Bank of 
Salem, McCook county, and who has been president of the institution from 
the time of its inception, was born in Webster City, Hamilton county, 
Iowa, on the 30th of August, 1871, and is a son of Charles D. and Delia 
( Borland) Goldsmith, the former of whom is still living, the mother 
having died in 1882. The father of the subject was a prominent and 
honored member of the bar of the Hawkeye state, where he was actively 
engaged in the practice of his profession for many years, while for four 
years he served as district judge, making a most enviable record on the 
bench.  

	When the subject was ten years of age his parents removed to Sac 
City, Sac county, Iowa, and in the public schools of that place he 
secured his early educational training, after which he was for one year 
a student in the Robbaugh Commercial College, in the city of Omaha, 
Nebraska, where he completed a thorough business course and ably 
equipped himself for the active duties of life. After leaving school he 
became assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Sac City, 
retaining this position three years and then coming to McCook county, 
South Dakota, in 1893. Shortly after his arrival he effected the 
organization of the Commercial State Bank of Salem, over whose affairs 
he has since presided as chief executive, while under his management the 
institution has been ably conducted and signally prospered, having ample 
capitalistic reinforcement and being one of the solid banking houses of 
the state. The bank was opened for business on the 1st of July, 1893, 
and the attractive and substantial bank building, of modern design and 
equipment, was erected by Mr. Goldsmith for the purpose to which it is 
now applied. In politics Mr. Goldsmith is an uncompromising adherent of 
the Democratic party, and fraternally he is identified with the blue 
lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity.  

	On the 23d of October, 1895, Mr. Goldsmith was united in marriage 
to Miss Lucile Schneider, of Salem, South Dakota, she being a sister of 
L. V., J. F. and H. W. Schneider, leading merchants of Salem. Mrs. 
Goldsmith was born in Huston county, Minnesota, being a daughter of 
Joseph and Frances Schneider, and she was reared and educated in Salem, 
South Dakota.