Aaron S. Stuver Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	AARON S. STUVER, a well-known and honored citizen of Kimball, 
Brule county, is a native of the old Keystone state, having been born in 
Northampton county, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of January, 1842, a son of 
Charles and Mary (Santee) Stuver, of whose twelve children ten are yet 
living. The parents removed to Summit county, Ohio, when the subject was 
but seven years of age, and there he received his preliminary 
educational discipline in the common schools, after which he continued 
his studies in Hiram College, at Hiram, that state, the late Presidenit 
James A. Garfield having been at the head of the institution at the 
time. In August, 1862, Mr. Stuver manifested his loyalty and patriotism 
by enlisting as a private in Company I, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, 
and he continued in active service until the close of the war, having 
participated in several important battles and having ever been found at 
the post of duty, while the history of his regiment is the history of 
his military career. He received his honorable discharge at 
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, June 22, 1865. He retains his interest in his 
old comrades in arms and manifests the same by holding membership in the 
Grand Army of the Republic. 

	After the close of the war Mr. Stuver went to Illinois, where he 
followed the vocation of land surveyor about two years, at the 
expiration of which he located in Jasper county, Iowa, where he 
completed a thorough course of study in the law, being admitted to the 
bar of the state in 1871. He then entered upon the active practice of 
his profession in Newton, Iowa, where he remained until 1880, when he 
removed to Colorado and turned his attention to mining and civil 
engineering. On the 20th of October, 1882, he arrived in Brule county, 
South Dakota, and the attitude which he held in regard to his mining 
operations may be understood when we revert to the fact that he admits 
that at that time, he considered a quarter section of Dakota land worth 
more than an average mine in Colorado. He has been actively engaged in 
the practice of his profession ever since coming to the county and he is 
also engaged in the abstract business at the present time, having 
maintained his home and business headquarters in Kimball since 1885. He 
is at the present time a member of the board of commissioners of the 
State Soldiers' Home, at Hot Springs, having been appointed to this 
position by Governor Herreid, in 1904, for a term of six years. In 
politics Mr. Stuver is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the 
Republican party, taking an active part in the party councils in his 
county and state and fraternally he is identified with the Masonic 
order. 

	In 1872 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Stuver to Miss 
Josephine Hough, who died in Chamberlain, this state, in August, 1883. 
In 1887 he married Miss Ellen Pratt, who was summoned into eternal rest 
in 1896, the family home at the time having been on a farm owned by the 
subject near Kimball. On the 26th of June, 1900, Mr. Stuver married Miss 
Flora Weitzel, at Warsaw, Indiana. They have no children, nor were any 
born of the preceding marriages.