Martin G. Sinon Biography


	This biography appears on page 1885 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	MARTIN G. SINON, one of the representative members of the bar of 
South Dakota, being established in the practice of his profession in 
Fort Pierre, was born in Addison county, Vermont. He received his 
preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of his native 
state, having been graduated in the high school at Vergennes, Vermont, 
and having thereafter continued his studies in an excellent classical 
school in the same town. He then began reading law under the effective 
direction of a leading member of the bar of that place, and under these 
conditions continued his technical studies for three years. In 1875 he 
came to the west and located in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, being 
duly admitted to the bar of the state, and being there engaged in 
practice until he located in Highmore, the county seat of Hyde county, 
South Dakota, where he continued to be successfully engaged in the work 
of his profession until 1889, when he located in Pierre, where he 
remained one year, at the expiration of which he established his home 
and professional headquarters in Fort Pierre, where he has since 
continued in general practice and where he has built up a large and 
representative business. Mr. Sinon is a staunch adherent of the 
Democratic party, and has been an active worker in its cause, while he 
has been prominent in its local councils. He was elected register of 
deeds of Hyde county, and was elected as his own successor two years 
later, thus serving four consecutive years. He was also elected state's 
attorney of Stanley county, making a most excellent record as public 
prosecutor and being chosen to succeed himself, while later he was 
appointed to the same office, to fill a vacancy.

	Mr. Sinon was married to Miss Mary Scott, of Polk county, Iowa, 
who is now deceased, she being survived by four children.