Edward LaDick Biography


	This biography appears on page 1867 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	EDWARD LADICK, one of the successful farmers and stock raisers of 
Charles Mix county, was born in the city of Rochester, New York, in 
1852, and when he was four years of age his parents removed to 
Michigan, and in that state they passed the remainder of their lives. 
The subject attended the public schools of Michigan, while he learned 
the trade of blacksmith under the direction of his father, but was 
principally engaged in farm work until he had attained his legal 
majority. At the age of twenty-two years he went to Franklin, 
Pennsylvania, where he served an apprenticeship at the trade of boiler 
making, to which he devoted his attention for five years. In 1874 he 
was married to a Miss Campbell, who was born and reared in 
Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of one child. Mrs. LaDick was 
summoned into eternal rest and Mr. LaDick contracted a second marriage, 
being then united to Miss Lizzie Volland, of Yankton county, this 
state, and of this marriage were born three children.

	Mr. LaDick came to South Dakota in 1884 and entered claim to a 
homestead in Charles Mix county, near the Missouri river, and here he 
has ever since maintained his home, having made excellent improvements 
on his farm, which is principally devoted to the raising of live stock, 
though a portion of the tract is maintained under a high state of 
cultivation, the land being particularly fertile. In politics Mr. 
LaDick is a stalwart advocate of the principles and politics of the 
Republican party, and his religious faith is that of the Catholic 
church, of which both he and his wife are communicants.