Biography of John Hove

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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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JOHN HOVE an enterprising business man of Garretson. is a 
native of Fillmore county, Minnesota, where his birth occurred 
on the 25th day of September. 1864. reared on a farm he was 
early taught the dignity of honest toil and. growing up with 
habits of industry deeply imbedded in his nature, was well 
qualified at the proper time to assume the stern duties of life. 
He enjoyed the advantages of a common-school education, and 
after remaining with his parents and assisting with the labors 
of the × farm until attaining his majority he left the home 
circle and in 1885 came to Minnehaha county, South Dakota, where 
he followed agriculture for some years as a renter. Later. in 
1893 Mr. Hove purchased one hundred and Sixty acres of land in 
Edison township, which he reduced to cultivation, improved with 
good buildings and stocked with cattle and other domestic 
animals, in due time converting the land into a fine farm, on 
which he made his home during the nine years following. In the 
spring of 1902 he turned his place over to other hands and 
changed his abode to Garretson, where one year later he effected 
a co-partnership in the hardware business with Mr. Munson, 
which, under the firm name of Hove & Munson, is now one of the 
leading mercantile establishments in the city. By close 
attention to business and by judiciously consulting the demands 
of the trade, these gentlemen have secured a large and lucrative 
patronage, and, although but recently established, their house 
has steadily come to the front until, as stated in the preceding 
paragraph, it is now one of the successful and popular places of 
business in a city where competition in all lines is lively and 
where only the capable and far-seeing succeed. Mr. Hove served 
five years as a member of the Edison township official board and 
also filled the office of assessor, in both of which capacities 
his course was creditable to himself and satisfactory to the 
public.

Mr. Hove has faith in the future of his city and county, and 
to the extent of his ability is applying his energies to the 
promotion of the welfare of each. being interested in whatever 
concerns the material prosperity of +he community and a willing 
supporter of all enterprises having for their object the 
intellectual, social and moral well-being of the same.

Mr. Hove was united in marriage, in Minnehaha county, March 
25, 1888, to Miss Lovisa Munson, who, like himself, is a native 
of Minnesota, both having been born in the county of Fillmore, 
that state.