John H. Lund Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1397-1398 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JOHN H. LUND, county judge of Day county, and a representative 
member of the South Dakota bar, is a native of Norway, where he was born 
March 31, 1859. He was an infant of nine months when his parents, Helge 
and Inga Lund, came to America. The parents first settled in Columbia 
county, Wisconsin, from where they removed to Emmet county, Iowa, in 
1867. Judge Lund passed through the common schools, and then entered 
Luther College at Decorah, Iowa, where he was graduated in 1884, with 
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1885 he went to Campbell county, 
South Dakota, and in 1886 he left his claim in that county and went to 
Aberdeen, and entered the law office of M. J. Gordon, subsequently chief 
justice of the state of Washington. After two years as a student in 
Judge Gordon's office he was admitted to the bar on April 4 1888. On the 
19th of June, 1888, Judge Lund located in Webster. In 1894 he was 
elected state's attorney for Day county, and in 1896 was re-elected to 
the same office. In 1900 he was elected county judge of the county. and 
was re-elected in 1902, and at the present time is the nominee of the 
Republican party for another term of the same office.