Frank Gabriel Herron Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1166-1167 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRANK GABRIEL HERRON, one of the successful business men of Sioux Falls, 
where he conducts a well-equipped grocery establishment, was born on a 
farm in Vernon county, Wisconsin, on the 16th of August, 1857, and is a 
son of William A. and Mira Herron, both of whom are now living in Sioux 
Falls, while both were natives of Athens county, Ohio and 
representatives of pioneer families of the old Buckeye state. When the 
subject was about twelve years of age his parents removed to Warren 
county, Iowa, and in the public schools of Indianola, the county seat, 
he received his early educational training. In 1875 he entered upon an 
apprenticeship to the printer's trade, in the office of the Indianola 
Herald, becoming a skilled workman and being engaged in the work of his 
trade for several years. In 1883 he came to South Dakota and took up his 
residence in Huron and was in business there for five years. In 1888 he 
removed to Sioux Falls and until March, 1902, he was employed as foreman 
in the Brown & Saenger printing establishment, but gave up that position 
and, with his son, Bert, established his present prosperous business 
enterprise, and they, under the firm name of Herron & Son, have gained a 
place of prominence in the commercial life of the city. In politics Mr. 
Herron is a staunch Republican but has never sought official preferment, 
and fraternally he is identified with the local organization of the 
Masonic order and its adjunct, the Order of the Eastern Star, and also 
with the Royal Arcanum, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
Fraternal Order of Eagles 

	n the 28th of November, 1883, Mr. Herron was united in marriage 
to Miss Ida A. Tisdale, who was born and reared in Lake City, Minnesota, 
being a daughter of Luther J. and Adaline Tisdale, and of this union 
have been born four children, of whom three are living; Bert F. was born 
October 11, 1884; Roy was born January 11, 1888, and died on the 7th of 
February of the following year; Mabel R. was born January 2, 1889; and 
Charles L., March 6, 1890.