T. S. Teed Biography


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	T. S. TEED, a successful farmer and stock raiser of Brown county, 
is a native of Erie county, Pennsylvania, and dates his birth from the 
7th day of October, 1852. On coming to Brown county, in the spring of 
1888, Mr. Teed settlecl on a tract of land west of the town of 
Westpoint, and engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising. He 
improved his farm, rendered it highly tillable and continued to live 
thereon until 1893, when he purchased the place, twelve miles north of 
Aberdeen, where he has since lived and prospered. As an agriculturist he 
has made a creditable record, being up-to-date in his methods of tilling 
the soil, progressive in all he undertakes and his well-directed labors 
and judicious management have resulted so greatly to his advantage that 
he is now recognized as one of the leading farmers of the community in 
which he resides. While devoting considerable attention to farming, he 
relies chiefly upon stock raising, being largely interested in cattle, 
especially cows, from which he derives every year a handsome income. He 
keeps nothing but first-class stock, selects or raises his animals with 
especial reference to their value as milkers and for some time past has 
supplied several creameries with the larger part of the cream used in 
their business, besides selling considerable quantities to individual 
customers. Mr. Teed was raised in a country where great attention is 
given to the manufacture of butter and cheese, and he came west with the 
intention of engaging in the cheese business, but failed to secure 
enough cows to justify him in the attempt. Failing to carry into effect 
his original object, he turned his attention to dairying and being 
thoroughly conversant with the business has made it quite profitable. 
The farm on which Mr. Teed now lives consists of one hundred and sixty 
acres, lying contiguous to Elm river, all of it bottom land with a soil 
of great depth and remarkable fertility. It is admirably adapted to 
general agriculture, producing abundantly all the crops of grains, 
fruits and vegetables grown in this latitude, the part devoted to 
pasturage being thickly covered with grasses and herbage, noted for 
nutritious qualities. 

	Financially Mr. Teed has met with success commensurate with the 
energy and ability displayed in the prosecution of his various interests 
and he is now classed with the enterprising, well-to-do men of Brown 
county. Politically he is independent. in all the term implies, adhering 
to men and measures best calculated to further the interests of the 
people. Mr. Teed has made a careful study of sociology and kindred 
subjects and entertains views relative to present social and political 
conditions which some people would pronounce radical and heterodox. 
Convinced of the justness of his position, however, he expresses himself 
fearlessly and is able at all times to maintain the soundness of his 
opinions. He is identified with the Tacoma Park Association, an 
organization for the purpose of awakening an interest in social 
questions and disseminating knowledge pertaining thereto, being one of 
the leaders of this school of thought in his part of the country.