A. H. Henneous Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1678-1679 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	A. H. HENNEOUS is one of the honored and representative business 
men of White Lake, while he has also served as state's attorney of 
Aurora county and as county judge, being held in the highest esteem in 
the community. in which he has maintained his home for more than a score 
of years, while he is now engaged successfully in the lumber business 
here. Mr. Henneous is a native of Erie county, Pennsylvania, where he 
was born on the 13th of November, 1859, being a son of Frederick and 
Carrie (Sanders) Henneous, the former of whom has long been one of the 
prominent farmers and honored citizens of Erie county, where he still 
resides, being eighty-three years of age. His devoted wife passed away 
in 1900, at the age of seventy years, having been a zealous member of 
the Presbyterian church, with which he also has been prominently 
identified for many years, while he is a staunch Republican in politics. 

	Judge A. H. Henneous was reared on the homestead farm and after 
completing the curriculum of the public schools became a student in 
Allegheny College, where he remained five years, thereafter taking a 
course in the Pennsylvania State Normal School, at Edinboro, 
Pennsylvania. He thereafter devoted his attention for a full decade to 
teaching in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Iowa, to which latter 
state he removed in 1880. In the spring of 1882 he came to White Lake, 
where he has ever since resided. For a short time after his arrival he 
was engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. In 1890 he was 
elected state's attorney far this county, and after the expiration of 
his term served three successive terms as county judge. He was not then 
permitted to retire from public office, since he was again elected to 
the position of state's attorney, in which he served one term. He had 
given considerable attention to the study of law and was eminently 
qualified for the duties devolving upon him in each of these responsible 
offices. He was admitted to the bar January 5, 1891. In 1898 Judge 
Henneous opened a lumber yard in White Lake, and in this line of 
enterprise he has built up a large and successful business. He has ever 
given a staunch allegiance to the Republican party and has wielded no 
little influence in promoting its cause. He is a member of White Lake 
Lodge, No. 85, Free and Accepted Masons, and both he and his wife are 
valued members of the Presbyterian church in White Lake, our subject 
being a member of its board of trustees. 

	On the 27th of August, 1887, Judge Henneous was united in marriage 
to Miss Minnie M. Ponto, of Floyd county, Iowa, and they have three 
children, Agnes, Ralph and Fern.