Damose Raymond Biography


	This biography appears on pages 922-923 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DAMOSE RAYMOND, one of the substantial and prosperous farmers and 
stock growers of Charles Mix county, comes of staunch French lineage, 
and is a native of St. Michel, Canada, where he was born in the year 
1857, his parents having passed their entire lives in the dominion. He 
secured a common-school education and early became dependent upon his 
own resources, having been engaged in various lines of work in Canada 
until he had attained the age of sixteen years, when he went to the 
northern part of the state of Michigan, where he remained four years as 
a workman in the great pineries, in connection with the lumbering 
operations of a large concern. He then returned to Canada and located 
in St. Philippe, where he conducted a meat market for the ensuing five 
years, at the expiration of which he again came to "the states," taking 
up his abode in Fremont, Nebraska, where he rented a farm of one 
hundred and fifty-seven acres to whose cultivation he continued to 
devote his attention for three years, when he came to South Dakota and 
took up a homestead claim in Jackson township, Charles Mix county, the 
same being an integral portion of his present finely improved ranch. He 
began life here in the primitive pioneer style, his first dwelling 
being a rude sod house, which in time gave place to his present 
comfortable and commodious frame residence, while he has made other 
well ordered improvements on the place. The major part of the place is 
under a high state of cultivation, while the balance is devoted 
principally to grazing purposes and to the raising of hay for his 
stock. He gives special attention to the raising of red polled cattle 
of high grade, and also keeps a good herd of Poland China hogs. In 
politics he maintains an independent attitude, and both he and his wife 
are communicants of the Catholic church, in whose faith he was reared.  

	In the year 1877 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Raymond to 
Miss Olivine Brindamour, who was born in 1862 in St. Philippe, and of 
this union were born the following children: Millen, Mary, Rosa, 
William, Casimir, Damase, Josephine, Victoria and Florence. Mrs. 
Olivine Raymond died in 1899 and in 1900 the subject married Miss Zelia 
Cote.