J. E. McLane Biography


	This biography appears on page 1861 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	J. E. McLANE is a native of Wabasha county, Minnesota, and passed 
his boyhood days on the pioneer homestead. Owing to the exigencies and 
conditions of time and place his educational advantages were somewhat 
limited in his youth. He was about nineteen years of age at the time of 
his parents' removal to South Dakota, but instead of remaining with 
them on the new farm in Bon Homme county he came to Fort Pierre, 
Stanley county, where he entered the employ of wood and beef 
contractors engaged in supplying the military post. In 1880 he located 
on a ranch in Sully county, where he was engaged in the raising of 
stock until 1892, when he again came to Stanley county and located at 
Fort Bennett, near the mouth of the Cheyenne river and about forty 
miles distant from Fort Pierre, where he now has a well-improved ranch, 
and where he is successfully engaged in the raising of cattle and other 
stock upon a large scale.