George W. Krum Biography


	This biography appears on page 1733 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GEORGE W. KRUM, a representative citizen and successful business 
man of Claremont, Brown county, is a native of the Wolverine state, 
having been born in Kent county, Michigan, on the 2d of August, 1844, 
and being a son of Abraham and Theresa (Holmes) Krum, both of whom were 
born in New York state, the former being of Holland Dutch extraction and 
the latter of English. Abraham Krum was born in Ulster county, New York, 
and removed to Kent county, Michigan, in 1837, being one of the very 
early settlers in that now populous and opulent section of the state, 
Grand Rapids, the second city of the commonwealth, being located in the 
county mentioned. In 1838 he returned to New York, where he married Miss 
Theresa Holmes, who returned with him to the pioneer farm in the midst 
of the primeval forests of Michigan, where they passed the remainder of 
their long and useful lives, retaining the uniform esteem of all who 
knew them. The subject was reared to the sturdy discipline of the 
homestead farm, in Vergennes township, and early began to aid in its 
work, while his educational advantages as a boy were those afforded in 
the common schools, while later he attended the high school in the city 
of Grand Rapids. He continued to reside on the old homestead until 1874, 
when he went to the south, where he remained six years, passing the 
major portion of this time in Texas and the Indian territory. He then, 
in 1881, came to what is now Brown county, South Dakota, and settled on 
a homestead claim three miles west of Groton, where he developed a good 
farm and continued to be engaged in farming and stock growing until the 
autumn of 1886, when he located in Claremont and opened a real-estate 
and loan office. He has built up a most prosperous enterprise, is 
recognized as an able and straightforward business man, and through his 
well-directed operations has done much to forward the development of the 
section of the state in which he conducts his enterprise, while he 
commands the unequivocal confidence and esteem of all who know him. He 
still owns his original homestead, besides other valuable properties in 
the county. In politics he gives his allegiance to the Prohibition party 
and fraternally he is a member of Cement Lodge, No. 103, Ancient Free 
and Accepted Masons, in Claremont, and of Aberdeen Chapter, No. 12, 
Royal Arch Masons, in Aberdeen.