Charles F. Holmes Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1470-1471 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES F. HOLMES, one of the well-known business men of Aberdeen, 
is a native of the Badger state and a representative of one of its 
pioneer families, having been born in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, on 
the 5th of June, 1852, and being a son of Anson L. Holmes, who was born 
in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, coming of staunch old Scottish 
lineage. Anson L. Holmes removed with his family to Wisconsin in an 
early day and there passed the remainder of his life, which was-devoted 
principally to agricultural pursuits and lumbering. The subject of this 
sketch was reared and educated in Wisconsin, and in 1876, as a young man 
of twenty-four years, he removed to Nevada, becoming one of the pioneer 
gold miners in that section of the Union. He followed placer mining for 
a number of years and was fairly successful in his efforts. In 1879 he 
returned to Wisconsin, where he passed the winter of that year, and in 
the spring of 1880 he came to the present state of South Dakota and 
located in Watertown, where he continued to reside until the spring of 
1882, when he came to Aberdeen, taking up land in the vicinity and in 
due time perfecting his title to the same. He then engaged in the cigar 
business in the city, while he was also identified with the police 
department for eight years, during a portion of which he was chief of 
the same, proving a most able executive. In 1897 he engaged in the drug 
business at the corner of Main and Third streets, where he continued 
operations until March, 1904, when he sold out. In politics he is a 
stalwart Republican and fraternally is affiliated with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.