Milo Emerson Nettleton Biography


	This biography appears on page 944 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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MILO EMERSON NETTLETON, a successful farmer of Lincoln county, is 
a native of the Hawkeye state of the Union, having been born on a farm 
near Shellrock, Butler county, Iowa, on the 21st of December, 1869, and 
being a son of Amos and Louisa Nettleton, both of whom were born in the 
province of Ontario, Canada, while in the lineage are found English, 
Irish and Dutch strains. The ancestors in an early day emigrated from 
the state of New York to Ontario, Canada, and settled near Prescott, on 
the St. Lawrence river and thence the paternal grandparents of our 
subject removed to Ogle county. Illinois, where they took up their 
residence in 1855 being numbered among the pioneers of that section. 
There, in 1858, was solemnized the marriage of Amos Nettleton and 
Louisa Hart, and they later followed the western march of civilization 
and immigration into Iowa, where they remained until 1872, when they 
came to Lincoln county, South Dakota, which was then on the very 
frontier of civilization, and cast in their lot with the first settlers 
of this section, while it was theirs to endure the hardships, dangers 
and deprivations which marked the formative epoch of history in the 
great undivided territory of Dakota. The father here took up government 
land, and he and his wife are still residents of Lincoln county, having 
lived to witness the marvelous transformation which has here been 
wrought in the last quarter of a century, while with the development of 
the resources of the state they have become prosperous and are now 
enabled to pass the golden evening of their lives in peace and 
contentment and to rest from the strenuous labors which marked their 
early years in the territory.  

The subject of this sketch was a child of about three years at 
the time of his parents' removal to South Dakota, and he was reared 
under the influences and conditions of the pioneer era, assisting from 
his boyhood in the work of the farm and securing his educational 
training in the somewhat primitive common schools of the locality and 
period. He continued on the old homestead until 1892, when he purchased 
a quarter section of land in Dayton township, Lincoln county, where he 
has developed a good farm, upon which he has made substantial 
improvements, while he is now numbered among the prosperous farmers and 
stock growers of the county and is one of its steadfast and loyal 
citizens, meriting the confidence and esteem in which he is held in the 
section which has so long been his home. In politics he gives his 
support to the Republican party, and fraternally he is a charter member 
of Homestead No. 680, Brotherhood of American Yeomen, at Harrisburg, 
which was organized in 1901, and of which he has been master of 
accounts from the time of its inception.  

	On the 25th of November, 1897, Mr. Nettleton was united in 
marriage to Miss Clara Anna Lyon, who was born in Oakland, Illinois on 
the 28th of March, 1879, being a daughter of Henry and Ida Lyon, and 
they are the parents of four children whose names and dates of birth 
are here entered: Emma Ray, March 19, 1899; Henry Tawney, January 19, 
1901: Amos Arthur, September 13, 1902, and Floyd Lyman, February 16, 
1904.