John Francis Hulseman, Jr. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1518-1519 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JOHN FRANCIS HULSEMAN, JR., who is engaged in the hardware 
business at Chamberlain, Brule county, is a native of the beautiful old 
city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 26th of 
June, 1868, being a son of John F. and Louisa Hulseman, who were 
likewise born and reared in Philadelphia, being representatives of 
staunch old families of the Keystone state, whither the original 
progenitors in the new world came from Germany. The father of our 
subject is a leather merchant by vocation and at present resides in 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

	John F. Hulseman, Jr., secured his early educational training in 
the public schools of his native city, after which he engaged in the 
saddlery and heavy hardware business in Philadelphia with Kennedy, 
Nilling & Company. In 1889 he went to Chicago and was house salesman for 
A. F. Resser & Company, wholesale saddlery and hardware. In 1892 he 
moved to Milwaukee, as city salesman for B. Young estate, wholesale 
saddlery and hardware, remaining with them, until 1894. At that time he 
changed firms to travel through the state of South Dakota and 
northwestern Iowa, with headquarters at Sioux Falls South Dakota, for 
Scheffer & Rossum, of St. Paul, Minnesota, wholesale saddlery and 
hardware. The following year he accepted a position with Wallace Smith & 
Company, wholesale saddlery and hardware, Milwaukee, Wisconsin remaining 
with them until January 1, 1903, when he engaged in the hardware 
business at Chamberlain, South Dakota, with B. G. Wattson, under the 
firm name of Wattson & Hulseman, hardware, harness, farm implements, 
etc. 

	In politics Mr. Hulseman is a staunch Democrat, his religious 
faith is that of the Catholic church and fraternally he is identified 
with the Catholic Order of Foresters, the United Commercial Travelers 
and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 

	On the 1st of September, 1895, at Sioux Falls, was solemnized the 
marriage of Mr. Hulseman to Miss Anna A. Donahoe, who was born in 
Decorah, Iowa, and reared in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, being a daughter 
of Daniel Donahoe, and of this union have been born three children, 
namely: Giles Daniel, Leo John and Raymond Francis.