Gustavus R. Krause Biography


	This biography appears on page 923 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GUSTAVUS R. KRAUSE, who is engaged in the practice of his 
profession in the city of Dell Rapids, Minnehaha county, is known as 
one of the successful and representative members of the South Dakota 
bar. He is a native of the Badger state, having been born in Dodge 
county, Wisconsin, on the 9th of February, 1859, and being a son of 
Godfrey H. and Amelia (Schmidt) Krause, who were born in Germany, and 
who early located in Wisconsin, where the father devoted his life to 
farming. The subject received his preliminary discipline in a German 
private school in his native county, and thereafter was for two years a 
student in the Baptist college at Monee, Illinois, being there 
graduated as a member of the class of 1873, in which year his parents 
removed to Columbus, Nebraska, where he continued his studies for a 
time in the public high school, later entering a business college in 
the city of Burlington, Iowa, where he was graduated in 1878, after 
which he returned to his home in Columbus. Nebraska, in which town he 
eventually engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued 
for a period of several years. In 1889 he disposed of his interests 
there and came to South Dakota, locating in Dell Rapids, where he 
engaged in the real-estate and loan business, and later took up the 
study of law under excellent preceptorship, and he was admitted to the 
bar of the state upon examination before the supreme court during the 
October session of 1897. After his admission to the bar Mr. Krause at 
once established himself in practice in Dell Rapids, and here, through 
his ability, devotion to his profession and unflagging energy and 
application, he has succeeded in attaining high prestige at the bar of 
the county and controls a large and important business. Though he has 
never been ambitious for personal preferment in an official way Mr. 
Krause has long been an active and loyal worker in the ranks of the 
Republican party, of whose principles and policies he is an able 
advocate, while fraternally he is identified with the Ivanhoe Lodge, 
Knights of Pythias, and is an active member of the Presbyterian church 
in his home town, where he is held in high regard as a lawyer and 
citizen. Since coming to the state Mr. Krause has accumulated here 
several pieces of valuable land, besides a fine home and valuable 
business property. He has won success through his own efforts, having 
been dependent upon his own resources since he attained the age of 
fifteen years.  

	On the 8th of October, 1881, Mr. Krause was united in marriage to 
Miss Delia P. Christison, of Trempealeau county, Wisconsin, daughter of 
Rev. Dr. Christison. They are the parents of two sons, Homer G. and 
Claude G., both bright young men now away from home receiving a college 
education.