Andrew J. Noble Biography


	This biography appears on pages 635-636 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

	This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit 
	organizations for their private use. 

	Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval 
	system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other 
	means requires the written approval of the file's author.

      This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside
      a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at

      http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm


	ANDREW J. NOBLE. - The gentleman to a brief review of whose 
career this article is devoted is a well-known farmer and stock-raiser 
of Bon Homme county, also an enterprising citizen who has done much to 
promote the material development of the community in which he resides. 
Andrew J. Noble, son of John and Betsy (Webber) Noble, was born at 
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on the 12th day of July, 1846. He received 
his education in the public schools of his native place, was reared on 
a farm and remained with his parents until thirty years of age, 
assisting his father the meanwhile and bearing his full share of the 
family's support. On leaving home, he engaged in agricultural pursuits 
at Mineral Point, but six years later came to Bon Homme county, South 
Dakota, and purchased a quarter section of land, which he has since 
reduced to cultivation and otherwise improved. His farm, which is one 
of the best in the neighborhood, contains a good modern dwelling, a 
substantial and commodious barn and other buildings in excellent 
condition and its general appearance indicates the energy and thrift 
displayed by the proprietor in all of his labors and undertakings. Mr. 
Noble has added greatly to the beauty and attractiveness of his place 
by planting evergreen trees, of which there are now nearly fifteen 
hundred fully matured, and he also devotes considerable attention to 
horticulture, having set out all kinds of fruits grown in this 
latitude, his orchards at this time being among the largest and most 
productive in the county of Bon Homme. In addition to cultivating his 
own place Mr. Noble rents about three hundred acres of land in the 
vicinity, the greater part of which is devoted to pasturage, as he 
raises live stock on quite an extensive scale, besides buying cattle 
and hogs, principally for the Chicago market. Mr. Noble devotes 
especial attention to the Hereford breed of cattle, of which he now 
owns a fine herd, and he also has a wide reputation as a breeder and 
raiser of thoroughbred Poland-China hogs and a fine grade of road and 
draft horses. He has succeeded in all of his business enterprises and 
is well situated to enjoy the fruits of his many years of endeavor, 
being the possessor of a fine country home and of a sufficiency of 
wealth to make him independent. Mr. Noble is a man of sound judgment 
and good practical sense, and his career since coming west presents a 
series of successes that demonstrate not only business ability of a 
high order, but tactfulness and fertility of resource with which few 
are endowed. He has contributed much to the growth and development of 
the part of country in which his home is situated and, like all 
enterprising citizens, takes an active part in promoting the public 
welfare, being interested in all progressive measures for the 
advancement of the community and for the general good of his fellow 
men.  

	In the year 1890 Mr. Noble contracted a marriage with Miss 
Armina, daughter of John McNiell, of Tyndall, South Dakota, and his 
family at this time consists of five children, namely: Percy, Beatrice, 
Howard, Myrtle and Gladys.  

	In politics the subject is a Republican, but his ambition has 
never led him to seek the honors and emoluments of office. He is 
content to be a plain common man of the people, but nevertheless a 
well-rounded man whose influence has always been on the right side of 
every moral question and whose presence has been felt for good in every 
relation with his friends and fellow citizens.  

	John and Betsy Noble, the subject's parents, were natives of Ohio 
and Pennsylvania respectively. They moved to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, 
a number of years ago, and the father farmed and dealt in real estate 
there until 1886, when he came to South Dakota and purchased eleven 
hundred acres of land in Bon Homme county, which he still owns. Since 
the death of his wife, in 1890, he has made his home with his son, the 
subject of this review, and is now spending the closing years of his 
life in honorable retirement. John Noble was twice married, his first 
wife having been Mary Ann Lieurance, by whom he had five children, only 
two of whom survive, namely: Mrs. Sarah Whitford, of Mineral Point, 
Wisconsin, and Henry, a real estate dealer, living in Iowa. The second 
marriage resulted in the birth of children as follows: Mary Ann, wife 
of William Thomas; Merilda, now Mrs. Oliver Matthews; Andrew J., of 
this review; Charles: Mrs. Nancy Parkinson and Clara, of whom the first 
and last named are deceased.