Alois Jezewski Biography

	This biography appears on pages 727-728 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ALOIS JEZEWSKI is one of the progressive young business men of 
the state, being manager of the lumber yards of the firm of J. H. Queal 
& Company, at Tabor, Bon Homme county, while he has previously held 
other important positions demanding marked executive ability and 
discrimination.  

	Mr. Jezewski is a native of Winona, Minnesota, where he was born 
on the 24th of November, 1880, being a son of Andrew and Pauline 
(Jajesky) Jezewski, both of whom were born in Poland. There the father 
of our subject was reared and educated, and when about seventeen years 
of age came to the United States in company with his parents, locating 
in Minnesota, where his father took up a tract of land and engaged in 
farming. On attaining manhood he became identified with the lumbering 
industry of that state, securing a position in the sawmills of the firm 
of Laird, Norton & Company, at Winona. Here his skill and fidelity met 
with appreciative recognition and he was soon advanced to the position 
of edger, and has ever since remained in the employ of the same 
concern, having filled the position noted for nearly a quarter of a 
century. He is a Republican in politics, a man of sterling character 
and both he and his wife are devout communicants of the Catholic 
church.  

	The subject of this sketch was reared to maturity in his native 
town of Winona, where he completed the curriculum of the public 
schools, including the high school. At the breaking out of the Spanish-
American war he was a member of Company E, Second Regiment of the Union 
State Militia, and when his command was called into service Mr. 
Jezewski became a member of Company E, Twelfth Minnesota Volunteer 
Infantry, remaining in service for six months and then receiving his 
honorable discharge, the regiment having been stationed at Chickamauga 
Park. He was discharged as corporal of his company and while in active 
service he was on detail duty in the hospital, also serving as company 
clerk, while he also did effective work as battalion correspondent for 
the St. Paul Globe. After his return home he became second man at 
Minnesota, Minnesota, for the Winona Lumber Company. After a short time 
he resigned this position to accept a place as machine salesman and 
stock buyer with Herman Dahl, in whose employ he remained until the 
winter of 1899-1900, during which he was in the employ of the Lunds 
Land Agency as traveling representative For a time, then engaging in 
selling implements and buying stock for C. M. Anderson, of Canby, 
Minnesota. In the winter of 1900-1901 he engaged in teaching school and 
was also leader of the band at Wilmo, Minnesota, being an accomplished 
musician in this line of renditions. In the spring of 1901 he accepted 
a position as salesman for the Dawson Lumber Company, at Ivanhoe, 
Minnesota, and in the following August the company disposed of its 
interests at that point. Our subject was then offered a position with 
the company in connection with their business at Madison, that state, 
but he did not accept the same but entered the employ of the Chicago & 
Northwestern Railroad Company, continuing in service during the busy 
season of stock transportation. In December, 1901, he accepted a 
position with the lumber firm of J. H. Queal & Company, of Minneapolis, 
and forthwith came to Tabor, South Dakota, to assume the management of 
their yards here, and he has since retained this incumbency, having 
been most successful in forwarding the local interests of the company 
and having control of a large and constantly increasing business. He is 
a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and takes a lively 
interest in public affairs of a local and general nature. He and his 
wife are both communicants of the Catholic church. He has recently 
completed a course in architecture through the International 
Correspondence Schools, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, finding the 
knowledge of great value to him in his present position, while he is 
also well equipped for following the business as a profession should 
circumstances justify a change at any time.  

	On the 3d of June, 1902, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Jezewski to Miss Stella Hakl, daughter of Frank Hakl, a well-known and 
honored farmer of Bon Homme county.