George G. Lasell Biography


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	GEORGE G. LASELL, one of the representative members of the bar of 
Grant county, is incumbent of the position of cashier of the State Bank 
of Twin Brooks, and is one of the highly honored and influential 
citizens of this section  

	Mr. Lasell was born in Spring Valley, Minnesota, on the 22d of 
November 1867, and is a son of Z. D. and Roxana M. (Lund) Lasell. The 
father of the subject was born in the province of Quebec, Canada, of 
staunch French lineage, being a direct descendant of the Sieur de La 
Salle, the famous explorer of the Mississippi river, whose name is 
honored in history. The mother of our subject was born in Vermont, 
being of Irish descent in the agnatic line, while the Lund family was 
founded in New England in the early colonial epoch, representatives of 
the same having been valiant soldiers in the Continental line during 
the war of the Revolution. Z. D. survives his wife, living at Waubay, 
South Dakota. In the family were four sons and five daughters, all 
living. Three of the brothers are associated in the banking business,-
Silas T. is cashier of the State Bank of Waubay, Day county, and 
president of the State Bank of Twin Brooks; Dana A. is a farmer near 
Waubay; George G. is the next youngest, and Marion C. is engaged in the 
practice of law at Lamoure, North Dakota, and is one of the 
stockholders in the State Bank of Twin Brooks.  

	George G. received his early educational discipline in the public 
schools of Minnesota, having accompanied his parents on their various 
removals, and was graduated in the high school at Spring Valley, that 
state, as a member of the class of 1888, while thereafter he devoted 
five years to teaching in the public schools, having met with excellent 
success in his pedagogic work, while he was for a time a student in the 
law department of the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, 
Indiana. He gave careful attention to the study of law while teaching, 
and in 1900 was admitted to the bar of South Dakota. He came to this 
state in 1888, and purchased the plant and business of a newspaper 
called the Clipper, at Waubay, continuing as editor and publisher of 
the same for one year, when he disposed of the enterprise and 
identified himself with the general merchandise business in that town, 
being thus engaged about five years, at the expiration of which, in 
1900, he sold out and began the practice of law in Waubay. In the 
winter of 1901-2 he became associated with his brothers in the 
establishing of the bank at Waubay, while in the following winter they 
established the Bank of Twin Brooks, of which he has been cashier from 
its inception. The Lasell brothers are also the interested principals 
in the Lasell Lignite Coal Company, of North Dakota, with headquarters 
at Aberdeen, South Dakota, and are also prominently interested in the 
lumbering business in the state of Washington, as members of the 
Washington Fir & Cedar Lumber Company, of Cosmopolis, that state. They 
are active and progressive business men and have attained prominence 
and success through their well directed efforts. George G. is a staunch 
Democrat in his political proclivities, but has never been an aspirant 
for public office. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America.  

	On the 24th of March, 1888, Mr. Lasell was united in marriage to 
Miss Effie M. Toogood, who was born and reared in Minnesota, being a 
daughter of Dwight and May (Williams) Toogood, both of whom were born 
in Massachusetts, while they now reside at Pleasant Grove, Minnesota.