Duncan A. McGillivray Biography


	This biography appears on page 1677 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DUNCAN A. McGILLIVRAY; one of the representative business men and 
influential citizens of Hartford, Minnehaha county, comes of staunch 
Scotch extraction and was born in Glengarry county, province of Ontario, 
Canada, on the 4th of May, 1859, a son of John and Marv (McGillivray) 
McGillivray, the former of whom died in Lake county, South Dakota, in 
1894. The subject received such educational advantages as were afforded 
in the excellent public schools of his native province and was there 
identified with farming until 1878, when he removed to Wisconsin, where 
he remained about a year, being employed in connection with the 
lumbering industry. In May, 1879, he arrived in Lake county, South 
Dakota, where he took up a homestead claim and also a tree claim, 
developing and improving a good farm and being there engaged in 
agricultural pursuits and stock raising until the spring of 1902, when 
he came to Hartford and associated himself with John A. Phelps in the 
formation of the Hartford Milling Company. The finely equipped mill was 
erected by them in the same year, while they have built up an excellent 
business in the manufacturing of high-grade flour from selected spring 
wheat, the other products of the mill also being of marked superiority. 
The mill represents an investment of about fifteen thousand dollars, and 
has a capacity of one hundred and fifty barrels a day. the major portion 
of the output being sold in the local markets, while shipments are made 
at intervals to Illinois. 

	Mr. McGillivray has been a staunch supporter of the Republican 
party since attaining the right of franchise and has shown a proper 
interest in public affairs of a local nature. While a resident of Lake 
county he served four years as sheriff, giving a most able and 
satisfactory administration. Fraternally he is identified with Hartford 
Lodge, U. D., Free and Accepted Masons. and the Knights of Pythias. 

	On the 31st of March, 1885, Mr. McGillivray was married to Miss 
Delphemia Seaton, of Lake county, and she entered into eternal rest on 
the 31st of May, 1893, being survived by one son and three daughters, 
namely: Jessie, John, Della and May. On the 8th of October, 1894, was 
solemnized the marriage of Mr. McGillivray to Miss Mabel Phelps, a 
sister of his partner, John A. Phelps, and of this union has been born 
one son, Murdock J.