Carl Uecker Biography


	This biography appears on page 1880 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CARL UECKER was born in Anklam, Germany, and was reared and 
educated in the fatherland, where he learned in his youth the trade of 
ship carpenter, to which he there continued to devote his attention 
until he emigrated thence to America, believing that here were afforded 
superior opportunities for the gaining of independence through personal 
effort. In the following year he came to South Dakota and took up a 
tract of government land in Clark county, where he turned his attention 
to farming, this original homestead being a portion of his present 
estate. He was not conversant with the language of the country, was not 
experienced in agricultural pursuits and had to contend with the many 
hardships and privations which ever fall to the lot of the pioneer, but 
he pressed steadily forward, never flagging in courage and 
determination, and in the course of time prosperity crowned his efforts 
and he came into his just deserts. He was married to Carlina Nuske, who 
was born in Greifsvalt, Germany, and they have five children.