George R. Sagar Biography


	This biography appears on pages 645-646 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GEORGE R. SAGAR is one of the popular and representative young 
business men of the thriving town of Colman, Moody county, being 
engaged in the drug and jewelry business, under the firm name of Sagar 
& Stetzel, while he personally devotes his attention to the drug 
department of the enterprise.  

	George Raymond Sagar was born in Plainville, Onondaga county, New 
York, on the 22d of September, 1873, and is a son of William Henry and 
Catherine Sagar, who settled in that county about 1850, having driven 
overland from near the city of Albany and taken up their residence 
about eighteen miles west of Syracuse, where the father was for a 
number of years engaged in agricultural pursuits, while later he gave 
his attention to the trades of carpentry and painting. The lineage is 
traced back to the sturdy Dutch stock who settled-in New Amsterdam, the 
nucleus of the present city of New York. The subject of this sketch 
secured his early education in the public schools of his native town, 
and at the age of fourteen years he entered Baldwinsville Academy, in 
which institution he continued his studies for two years. After leaving 
school he took a clerical position in the drug store of his brother. 
Charles H. Sagar, in Auburn, New York, and was thus employed for three 
years, gaining an excellent knowledge of the business in many of its 
details. In order to perfect himself in the profession of pharmacy he 
then entered, in the fall of 1892, the New York School of Pharmacy, in 
the national metropolis, where he completed a two-years course, being 
graduated in the spring of 1894. He remained in the city of New York 
until January, 1898, when he came west to the city of Duluth, 
Minnesota, and thereafter he traveled as salesman for the C. H. Sagar 
Drug Company until May of that year, when he located in Castlewood, 
South Dakota. In October of the following year he removed to Winfred, 
where he remained until April, 1900, which continued to be his abiding 
place until the following September, when he established himself in the 
drug business in Colman, where he has a select and comprehensive stock 
and where he has built up a flourishing business. In September, 1902, 
he admitted to partnership Roy L. Stetzel, a jeweler, and they have 
since been associated in the dual enterprise, Mr. Stetzel devoting his 
attention to the jewelry department principally. In politics Mr. Sagar 
is a Republican, and fraternally he is identified with the Modern 
Woodmen of America, which he joined in January, 1899, and since 
January, 1901, he has served as clerk of Colman Camp of this popular 
order. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church since 1891, 
having been received into the same in the city of Auburn, New York.  

	On the 2d of April, 1901, at Lawler, Iowa, Mr. Sagar was united 
in marriage to Miss Delina E. Miller, daughter of William C. Miller, of 
that place.