William Jayne Biography


	This biography appears on page 855 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	WILLIAM JAYNE, first territorial governor of Dakota, was born at 
Springfield, Illinois, in 1826. Graduate of the University of Illinois 
and of the Missouri Medical School. Appointed governor by Lincoln in 
1861 and served until March, 1863, when he resigned to take his seat as 
delegate in congress, from which he was ejected upon the contest of 
Gen. J. B. S. Todd. Returned to Springfield, where he engaged in his 
profession and amassed a fortune. He is president of the First National 
Bank of Springfield and has held many places of honor at the Illinois 
capital.