Clinton D. Hoskin Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1111-1112 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CLINTON D. HOSKIN, who is the present popular and able incumbent 
of the office of register of deeds of Hand county, claims the fine old 
Buckeye state as the place of his nativity, having been born in the 
county of Ashtabula, Ohio, on the 29th of October, 1867, and being a son 
of Hilan J. and Nancy (George) Hoskin, who were likewise born in that 
state. The subject is the elder of their two children, his sister Maud 
being now the wife of A. R. Hannum, of Hand county, South Dakota, while 
his parents are residents of Huron, South Dakota. When Clinton D. was 
but two years of age his parents removed to Wheatland, Clinton county, 
Iowa, where his father engaged in teaming, and seven years later they 
removed to Buena Vista county, that state, where the father turned his 
attention to farming. The subject secured his educational training in 
the public schools of the Hawkeye state, where he was reared to 
maturity, and in 1884, at the age of sixteen years, he came to Hand 
county, South Dakota, where his father took up a homestead claim, in 
Gilbert township, and here he turned his attention to farming, in which 
he was engaged until his election to his present office. 

	Mr. Hoskin has given a staunch allegiance to the Republican party 
from the time of attaining his majority, has evinced a lively interest 
in public affairs of a local nature and been a prominent worker in the 
party cause. He served as treasurer of his school district for a period 
of thirteen years, and in the fall of 1902 was elected to the office of 
register of deeds of Hand county, for a term of two years, assuming his 
official functions in January, 1903. He is well known in the county, and 
his personal popularity is attested by his having been chosen to fill 
his present office. Fraternally he is identified with St. Lawrence 
Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, in St. Lawrence. 

	On the 29th of October, 1889, Mr. Hoskin was united in marriage to 
Miss Florence A. Scovill, daughter of B. P. Scovill, a prominent farmer 
of this county. She was born in Mason county, Illinois, and was twelve 
years of age at the time of her parents' removal to South Dakota. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hoskin have four children, Mabel I., Hilan J., Mina F. and 
Benjamin P.