Frederic Alan Mix Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1684-1685 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FREDERIC ALAN MIX, publisher and editor of the Fairplay, at Fort 
Pierre, Stanley county, was born on a farm in Hall county, Nebraska, on 
the 8th of November, 1875, being a son of Eugene Jesse and Caroline O. 
(Mann) Mix, both families having been early established in the state of 
New York, while the parents of the subject were numbered among the 
pioneers of Nebraska. In 1881 they removed to Smith Center, Kansas, 
where the father was engaged in mercantile pursuits until his death, 
which occurred in 1894. His widow and her two children then returned to 
Nebraska, and she now resides at Cairo, Hall county, that state, with 
her daughter, Miss Sadie J. The subject secured his early educational 
training in the public schools of Smith Center, Kansas, and after the 
death of his father accompanied his mother on her return to Nebraska, 
where he was for a time employed on the Burlington & Missouri River 
Railroad and also identified with farming operations. In 1896 he entered 
the Grand Island Business College, at Grand Island, Nebraska, where he 
was graduated as a member of the class of 1897. Shortly afterward, in 
August of that year, he went to the city of Omaha, where he was engaged 
in stenographic work and job printing until 1901, when he came to South 
Dakota, arriving in Fort Pierre, Stanley county, on the 20th of January 
of that year. Here he effected the purchase of the Fairplay, which he 
has made an exponent of the principles of the Republican party, while 
through his energetic and capable management the paper has gained a high 
standing and its business has been increased fourfold in the short 
intervening period, while the cumulative tendency in the enterprise is 
still to be marked in a significant and gratifying way. Mr. Mix was 
reared in the Republican party and has ever given the same his 
allegiance since attaining his majority, while both he and his wife are 
communicants of the Catholic church. Fraternally he is identified with 
the Modern Brotherhood of America and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. 

	On the 30th of May, 1900, in St. Philomena's church in the city 
of Omaha, Nebraska, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Mix to Miss 
Marguerite W. Weinrich, who was born in Saxony, Germany, and who is 
associated with him in the newspaper business, while he attributes to 
her co-operation and influence much of the success which has attended 
his efforts.