E. E. Soper, Jr. Biography


	This biography appears on page 1900 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	E. E. SOPER, JR., cashier of the Citizens' National Bank of 
Woonsocket, was born in Esterville, Iowa. He secured his early 
educational discipline in the public schools and was matriculated in 
Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, Iowa, where he was graduated. In the 
autumn of the following year he entered Columbia College, in the city 
of New York, and in this celebrated institution he secured the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts. He remained one year in the law department of the 
same institution, and then entered the law department of the University 
of Iowa, where he was graduated in the spring of the following year, 
being duly admitted to the bar of the state. In the following June he 
was united in marriage to Mrs. Clarissa (Robbing) Jackson, of 
Emmettsburg, where soon after his graduation he became a member of the 
law firm of Soper, Allen & Alexander, and there he continued in the 
active practice of his profession until the present Citizens' National 
Bank of Woonsocket, South Dakota, was organized, and he was called here 
to accept the position of cashier and general executive manager, in 
which capacity he has since served. Mr. Soper is a staunch Republican 
in his political proclivities and is a communicant of the Protestant 
Episcopal church, being at the present time junior warden of St. Luke's 
mission at Woonsocket. He is a member of the Sigma Nu college 
Fraternity, and is also identified with the Loyal Legion.