Mrs. Phoebe McCollum Biography


	This biography appears on page 1502 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	MRS. PHOEBE L. McCOLLUM, of Sioux Falls, who is conducting a 
notable enterprise under the title of the North and South Dakota View 
Company, is a native of the state of Illinois, and a representative of 
one of its early and honored pioneer families. She was born in 
Granville, Putnam county, on the 8th of October, 1865, and is a daughter 
of Anton and Anna (Merryfield) Lowenberg, the former of whom was born in 
Illinois and the latter in Ohio. He was a farmer by vocation and both he 
and his wife are now at Hastings, Nebraska. They became the parents of 
seven children, of whom seven are living. The paternal grandfather of 
Mrs. McCollum was George Lowenberg, who was one of the first settlers in 
the vicinity of the present town of Granville, Illinois, where he took 
up his residence as early as 1835, and his large farm is now being 
platted into city lots. When he located there his nearest market place 
was Chicago, about one hundred and twenty-five miles to the east, and 
the great western metropolis was then represented by a straggling town 
of the most unpretentious kind. 

	Mrs. McCollum received her educational training in the public 
schools of her native state, having been graduated in the high school in 
the city of Ottawa as a member of the class of 1888. She was for two 
years successfully engaged in teaching in the schools of her native 
town. On the 20th of September, 1890, in the city of Chicago, was 
solemnized the marriage of the subject to Arthur C. McCollum, who was 
born in Ottawa, Illinois, on Christmas day of the year 1865, being a son 
of William and Doris McCollum, of Ottawa, where he was reared and 
educated. Mr. and Mrs. McCollum have one child, Ruth Esther. Immediately 
after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McCollum removed to San Jose, 
California, where the former was for nine years a clerk in the local 
postoffice, having been in the postoffice previous to the marriage. In 
the spring of 1894 Mr. and Mrs. McCollum came to Sioux Falls, and here 
the subject has since been engaged in business, as previously noted. Mr. 
Collum is now employed in the postoffice at Sioux Falls. Both she and 
her husband are members of the Congregational church.