David E. Ward Biography (SD)


	This biography appears on pages 630-631 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DAVID E. WARD, the efficient and popular postmaster at Dell 
Rapids, Minnehaha county, and also editor and publisher of the Dell 
Rapids Times, is one of the progressive and public-spirited citizens of 
this thriving town and is well entitled to representation in this work. 
Mr. Ward was born in Darlington, Lafayette county, Wisconsin, on the 
7th of August, 1864, being a son of William and Barbara (Cook) Ward, 
the former of whom was born in Lester, England, and the latter in 
Plainfield, New Jersey, while they took up their residence in Wisconsin 
about 1851, where he was engaged in farming until 1885, when he removed 
to Cherokee county, Iowa, and farmed for two years. He then moved to 
Larnais, Iowa, and then to Sioux City, Iowa. In 1899 he moved to Dell 
Rapids, where both parents now reside.  

	The subject of this brief review received his educational 
discipline in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of 
twenty-one years he entered upon an apprenticeship at the printer's 
trade, in which he became proficient in due course of time, following 
the same as a vocation for a number of years. In 1887 he came to Dell 
Rapids, where he followed his trade until 1892, when he became 
associated with his brother, Henry W., in the purchase of the Dell 
Rapids Times, which they conducted until 1901, when he purchased his 
brother's interest in the enterprise and has since been the sole owner 
of the business, while he has made the paper an excellent exponent of 
local interests and one of no little influence in political affairs. 
The Times is a six-column quarto and is published on Friday of each 
week, while the plant is well equipped not only for the proper handling 
of the newspaper work but also has an excellent job department, in 
which the best class of work is turned out. In politics Mr. Ward has 
accorded an unvacillating allegiance to the Republican party from the 
time of attaining his majority, and both personally and through the 
columns of his paper he has done much to further its cause in a local 
way, while he has been a delegate to various state, county and 
congressional conventions in South Dakota. In 1894 he was appointed 
city auditor of the city of Dell Rapids, in which capacity he served 
nearly two years, while at all times he has shown a lively interest in 
all that makes for the progress and material prosperity of his home 
town, county and state, the while commanding the unreserved esteem of 
those who know him. In December, 1899, Mr. Ward was appointed 
postmaster at Dell Rapids, of which position he has since remained 
incumbent, having received his commission on February 16, 1900, and 
being reappointed January 7, 1904. Fraternally he is affiliated with 
Dell Rapids Lodge, No. 8, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Ivanhoe 
Lodge, No. 41, Knights of Pythias, and Sioux Falls Lodge, No. 262, 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.  

	In Dell Rapids, on the 10th of September, 1891, was solemnized 
the marriage of Mr. Ward to Miss Pearl A. Bryant, daughter of Clinton 
T. and Orilla Bryant, of this place, and they have one child, Howard 
E., who was born on the 28th of December, 1892.