Philip Schamber Biography


	This biography appears on page 1845 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	PHILIP SCHAMBER.-On another page of this work appears a sketch of 
the subject's brother, Fred W., and as in the connection is entered an 
outline of the family history it will not be necessary to give a 
supplementary review at this point. He whose name initiates this 
paragraph is one of the able and popular young business men of Eureka, 
McPherson county, and was born in Russia, on the 1st of June, 1870, and 
was about four years of age at the time of his parents' immigration to 
America, whither they came in 1874 and forthwith took up their 
residence in what is now the state of South Dakota, where the subject 
was reared to maturity, securing his educational training in the public 
schools and under the able direction of his father. He became 
identified with the hardware business at Tripp, Hutchinson county, 
where he was associated with his father and brothers, and in 1889 this 
business was sold and the brothers removed to Eureka, where they 
engaged in the hardware and farming implement business under the firm 
name of Martin Schamber & Sons, the interested principals being the 
honored father, Martin Schamber, and his sons, Fred W., Julius, Emil 
and Philip. Subsequently the subject disposed of his interests in the 
business and entered the employ of the well-known firm of Wardner, 
Bushnell, Glessner & Company, of Chicago, as traveling representative, 
selling agricultural machinery. He was thus engaged for two seasons and 
then established himself in the grain business in Eureka, buying an 
elevator. Later he disposed of the elevator and practically retired 
from the grain business to give his attention to the buying and 
shipping of live stock, with which line of enterprise he has since been 
prominently and successfully concerned. He is also the owner of an 
interest in the Golden Rule department store in the city of Aberdeen. 
In politics Mr. Schamber has ever been known as a stanch Republican, 
and he was appointed postmaster of Eureka, in which capacity he has 
since continued to render effective service.

	Mr. Schamber was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hezel, and 
of this union have been born two children.