Fred Andrew Seaman Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1776-1777 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRED ANDREW SEAMAN, secretary of the Big Four Land and Cattle 
Company, incorporated, of Faulkton, was born at Arcade, Wyoming county, 
New York, on March 11, 1857. His parents were Andrew and Mary A. (Jack-
man) Seaman, the former a native of Holland, who came to America when he 
was seventeen years old with his people. The mother was born in 
Sardinia, Erie county, New York. The father died in 1882, and the mother 
has made her home in Faulkton, being now in her seventieth year. Her 
mother resides at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and is in her ninety-first year.

	Fred A. Seaman resided in Arcade, New York, until he was twenty-five 
years of age. He received a common-school and academic education. He 
then took a four-years course at reading law in the office of the 
district attorney's office of Wyoming county, and was admitted to prac-
tice both in New York and South Dakota. He came to South Dakota in 1883, 
and located at La Foon, which afterwards became the first county seat of 
Faulk county. He organized the Faulk County Bank in La Foon in 1885, of 
which he became cashier. He removed to Faulkton in the fall of 1886, 
moving the bank from La Foon. The bank was closed in 1890. He was on a 
ranch for five years, which ranch he still owns, it being seven miles 
southeast of Faulkton, and containing six hundred and forty acres.

	Mr. Seaman was married December 2, 1886, to Miss Julia E. Smith, of 
La Foon, the daughter of Hon. D. S. Smith, who served in the South 
Dakota state senate. To the union two sons and five daughters have been 
born, of whom only the sons are living, Leonard A. and Paul S. - Mr. 
Seaman is a Mason, being a member of -the blue lodge and chapter, Modern 
Woodmen of America, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Royal 
Arcanum. He is a member of the Congregational church, and is superin-
tendent of the Sunday school for the past three years. For the last 
three years he has been secretary of the Big Four Land and Cattle Com-
pany. For seven years he was district collector for the Deering and 
McCormick Harvester Companies.