Charles A. Stephens Biography


	This biography appears on page 1886-1887 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	CHARLES A. STEPHENS, one of the prominent and successful young 
farmers and stock growers of Beadle county, was born in Grant county, 
Wisconsin. His parents were numbered among the early pioneers of 
Wisconsin, and there the father attained prominence as a farmer and a 
raiser of and dealer in live stock, especially horses. He came to the 
territory of Dakota, in company with the subject of this sketch, in 
1886, and the subject has since visited the state each successive year, 
he and his father having been engaged in shipping horses from Wisconsin 
to South Dakota during the intervening years, and in the connection 
they accumulated a large tract of land in Beadle county, the 
development and improvement of the same leading the entire family to 
remove to the county and take up a permanent residence, while the 
subject has continued to be actively associated with his father in the 
management of the fine property here. The subject secured his 
educational training in the public schools of his native county and has 
had most excellent business discipline through his intimate association 
with his honored father from his youth up. In politics he is a staunch 
Republican, as is also his father, and both are known as progressive 
and public-spirited citizens.

	Mr. Stephens was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Ziegler, who 
was likewise born and reared in Grant county, Wisconsin, and they have 
two children.