Theodore M. Antony Biography


	This biography appears on page 627 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				THEODORE M. ANTONY.

	Theodore M. Antony is cashier of the First National Bank at Gary, 
which position he has filled through ten consecutive years. He is 
actuated in all that he does by a spirit of progress and enterprise and 
is accounted one of the representative citizens of the community in 
which he makes his home. His birth occurred in Germany on the 23d of 
November, 1878, his parents being Franz and Maria Antony, both of whom 
survive. After acquiring a public school education Theodore M. Antony 
pursued a commercial course and when his school days were over became 
connected with his father in farm work and in the conduct of. a store. 
It was in 1884 that the family came to the new world, settling in 
Yellow Medicine county, Minnesota. After leaving his father's employ 
Theodore M. Antony became an employee in the First State Bank of Harvey 
and after three months entered the bank at Canby, Minnesota, where he 
remained for two years. He afterward went to Goodwin, where he spent 
three years in connection with banking interests, and in 1905 he 
entered the First National Bank of Gary as cashier. He has since 
continued in that position, making an excellent record as a popular, 
obliging and reliable offical, extending every possible courtesy to the 
patrons of the bank and at the same time safely guarding the interests 
of stockholders.  

	On the 4th of February, 1913, Mr. Antony was united in marriage 
to Miss Florence Travels, a daughter of Thomas Travers, of Clark, South 
Dakota. Mr. Antony and his wife are members of the Catholic church and 
he belongs to the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent Protective 
Order of Elks. In polities he is a republican and has frequently been 
called upon to serve his fellow townsmen in public office, having been 
treasurer, clerk and trustee. He cheerfully and willingly aids any 
measure for the public good and has cooperated in various movements 
which have been directly beneficial to his community. His attention is 
chiefly concentrated, however, upon his business affairs and aside from 
being a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of Gary, in 
which he has for ten years served as cashier, he is also a stockholder 
in the Bank of Goodwin.