Henry Klindt Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	HENRY KLINDT comes of staunch German lineage and is himself a 
native of the fatherland, having been born in Holstein, Germany, on the 
29th of May, 1850, and being a son of Claus and Anna Klindt. He received 
his early educational training in the excellent national schools of his 
native land, continuing to attend school at intervals until he had 
attained the age of twenty-two years and thus gaining a knowledge of 
many of the higher branches of learning, while for some time he was a 
student in a prominent military school. After leaving school he turned 
his attention to fortification work, in which he was engaged until 1876, 
when, at the age of twenty-six years, he severed the ties which bound 
him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortunes in 
America. He settled in the city of Rock Island, Illinois, where he 
secured a position in a paper mill, in which he was employed for the 
following three years. He then, in 1879, came as a pioneer to what is 
now the state of South Dakota, locating in Aurora county, where he was 
engaged in farming until 1883, when he came to Buffalo county and took 
up a tract of government land in Grant township, where he has ever since 
made his home and where he has accumulated a valuable property. He at 
once instituted the improvement of his embryonic farm, and gradually 
added to its area by the purchase of adjoining tracts until he is now 
the owner of a well-improved ranch of sixteen hundred acres, all of 
which is available for cultivation, though the major portion is devoted 
to his live-stock enterprise, in which he conducts his operations on an 
extensive scale, having cattle of the best grade and also raising swine 
and horses. 

	Mr. Klindt is a man of broad views and distinctive 
intellectuality, and he is known as a public-spirited and enterprising 
citizen, while he has received many patent evidences of popular 
confidence and esteem. He is a Populist in his political proclivities 
and has been an active worker in the party cause in his section of the 
state. In 1887 he was elected a member of the board of county 
commissioners, in which capacity he served four years, and in 1894 he 
was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, where he 
made an excellent record, serving two terms, with credit to himself and 
his constituency. His religious affiliation is with the Lutheran church. 

	On the 28th of May, 1889, Mr. Klindt was united in marriage to 
Miss Mary Schultz, who was born and reared in Wisconsin, being a 
daughter of August and Louise Schultz, who were numbered among the 
sterling pioneers of Green county, that state. The subject and his 
estimable wife are the parents of four children, namely: August, Henry, 
Hazel and Lydia, all of whom: remain beneath the home roof tree.