Charles J. McLeod Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1480-1481 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHARLES J. McLEOD, publisher of the Daily and Weekly News at 
Aberdeen and sole proprietor of the business there conducted under the 
title of the News Printing Company, comes of Scotch-English lineage and 
is a native of Nova Scotia, where he was born on the 22d of March, 1863, 
being a son of John H. and Catharine McLeod. He received his early 
educational training in the public schools and at the age of fourteen 
years entered upon an apprenticeship at the printer's trade in the 
office of the Herald, at North Sidney, in due time familiarizing himself 
with all details of the "art preservative of all arts." He came to the 
territory of Dakota in 1883, locating in Brown county, where he has ever 
since maintained his home, having become proprietor of his present 
flourishing business in 1893. His paper is modern in letter-press and 
makeup and maintains a high editorial standard, well serving as an 
exponent of local interests and as guide and director of public opinion 
in its field, advocating the cause of the Republican party and being 
highly valued in the connection by the party leaders in the state. Mr. 
McLeod is a Republican, while as a progressive, loyal and public-
spirited citizen he is held in high estimation.