H. W. Bedford Bigoraphy


	This biography appears on page 648 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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				H. W. BEDFORD.  

	One of the progressive and active business men of Aberdeen is H. 
W. Bedford, president of the Dakota Wholesale Grocery Company, which he 
promoted and organized and which through his well directed efforts has 
already become one of the important mail order houses in this section 
of the state. Mr. Bedford was born at Port Huron, Michigan, in 1882, 
and acquired his early education in the public and high schools of that 
city, completing his studies at the University of Michigan. He 
afterward spent five years as steward in a hotel and shell became 
connected with a coffee concern as a traveling salesman. He remained in 
that line of business for a number of years, finally becoming manager 
of the Sellers Coffee Company of Minnesota.

	Mr. Bedford severed his connection with that concern in 1913 and 
on the 24th of January of that year organized the Dakota Wholesale 
Grocery Company, of which he has since been president. This concern has 
a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars and its officers are 
as follows: H. W. Bedford, president; H. E. Williams, secretary; arid 
John C. Summerville, treasurer. The company does a mail order business 
exclusively and has no competitor in this line closer than Minnesota. 
The business is housed in a modern building in Aberdeen and its growth 
has been rapid since its foundation. It is in the hands of men of 
insight and capacity and its future expansion is, therefore, assured.