Fred Lewis Tiffany Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1749-1750 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRED LEWIS TIFFANY, one of the able and popular young members of 
the bar of Walworth county, and now incumbent of the office of United 
States court commissioner for the northern district of the state, was 
born in Mason City, Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, on the 20th of May, 1877, 
and is a son of David M. and Addie R. Tiffany, the former of whom was 
born in the state of New York and the latter in that of New Hampshire, 
while they are now residents of Mitchell, South Dakota, the father being 
a merchant by vocation. The subject passed his boyhood days in his 
native town, where he completed the curriculum of the public schools, 
having been graduated in the high school as a member of the class of 
1896. He then entered the University of Minnesota in the city of 
Minneapolis, where he continued his studies in the academic department 
for two years and later completed the prescribed course in the law 
department, in which he was graduated in June, 1901, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws, being simultaneously admitted to the bar of the state, 
as was he to that of South Dakota a short time afterward. In June of the 
same year he came to Mitchell, this state, and there initiated the 
active practice of his profession! remaining there until March, 1902, 
when he located in Selby, Walworth county, where he was engaged in 
practice until June 16, 1903, when he was appointed to his present 
office, by Judge J. H. Carland, of the United States district court, and 
then removed to Everts, where he has since given his attention to his 
official duties, while he also continues the practice of the law, in the 
minutiae of which he is thoroughly well informed. In politics Mr. 
Tiffany gives his allegiance to the Republican party and he takes a 
lively interest in the questions and issues of the hour. Fraternally he 
is identified with the Masonic order, while he is also affiliated with 
two college fraternities, the Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Phi. 

	On the 20th of May, 1902, was consummated the marriage of Mr. 
Tiffany to Miss Florence Gregory, who was born in Racine, Wisconsin, on 
the 10th of December, 1877, being a daughter of William H. and Ellen R. 
Gregory, now residents of Mitchell, South Dakota. Of this union has been 
born a fine little son, Lewis Gregory Tiffany, who was ushered into the 
world on the 10th of April, 1903.