Henry Roth Biography


	This biography appears on pages 638-639 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	HENRY ROTH, who is one of the successful farmers and stock 
growers of Hanson county, is a representative of one of the honored 
pioneer families of the county, his parents having been the first 
permanent settlers in Spring Lake township. Mr. Roth was born in 
Houston county, Minnesota, on the 2d of July, 1862, and is a son of 
Jacob and Mary E. (Fry) Roth, who were born in Germany and are 
prominent and valued members of the Lutheran church. Jacob Roth was 
reared and educated in the fatherland, where he learned the trade of 
tailoring, and in 1850 he emigrated from Germany to the United States, 
being engaged in the work of his trade in New York city until 1854, 
when he removed to Wisconsin, where he worked in a sawmill and was 
otherwise employed until 1858, when he took up his residence in Houston 
county, Minnesota, where he was numbered among the pioneer farmers and 
where he continued to make his home until 1879 and where he has served 
eighteen years as school treasurer of district No. 46. In that year he 
came to what is now the state of South Dakota, taking up government 
land in Hanson county, where he has ever since resided, having become 
one of the prosperous and honored citizens of this section, where he 
owns a fine farm of three hundred twenty acres. Mr. Roth also has held 
the office of school treasurer in South Dakota for twenty-two years. 
Jacob and Mary E. Roth became the parents of nine children, all of whom 
are living except one.  

	The subject of this review received his early educational 
training in the district schools of Minnesota and was seventeen years 
of age at the time of the family removal to South Dakota, where he has 
been intimately associated with his father in his industrial 
enterprises, now having a farm of four hundred thirty acres, in Spring 
Lake township, in which the family were the first settlers, while he 
has made excellent improvements of a permanent nature, including good 
buildings, fences, etc., and also a fine grove of trees which were 
planted by him. He devotes special attention to the raising of red 
polled cattle and a high grade of hogs, in which latter lines he has an 
average herd of one hundred head. Of the farm two hundred acres are 
maintained under a high state of cultivation, and the place is known as 
one of the best in the county. He is a Republican in politics, having 
been a member of the township board for the past six years, while he 
has served two terms as a member of the school board of his district. 
He and his wife are prominent and valued members of the Lutheran 
church, and fraternally he is identified with the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors, 
of which last Mrs. Roth also is member.  

	On the 16th of December, 1890, Mr. Roth was united in marriage to 
Miss Minnie Beach, who was born in Houston county, Minnesota, being a 
daughter of John and Annie E. Beach, now representative citizens of 
Hanson county. Mr. and Mrs. Roth have five children, namely: Matilda, 
Eldon, Annie, Bernie and Edna.