Charles Thomas Charnock Biography


	This biography appears on pages 878-881 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				CHARLES THOMAS CHARNOCK. 

	Charles Thomas Charnock, a progressive and successful real-estate 
dealer of Sioux Falls, was born on a farm in Mahaska county, Iowa, 
October 6,1869, and is a son of William T. and Elizabeth (Nicholson) 
Charnock. The father was a native of West Virginia, born in 1836, and 
heel three brothers in the Union army during the Civil war, he being 
the youngest son in the family. He now makes his home with his 
children. His father was a native of England, who came to America at 
the age of six years with the great-grandfather of the subject of this 
review. 

	Charles T. Charnock acquired his education in the country schools 
of Mahaska county, Iowa, but his advantages along this line were 
limited, as he never attended school during the summer months after he 
was nine years of age. In his youth he learned the blacksmith's trade 
and when twenty-one years of age established a shop of his own at 
Wright, Iowa, conducting this for three years. At the end of that time 
he removed to South Dakota and homesteaded land, engaging in ranching 
thereafter for four years. Following this he went to Lincoln county, 
South Dakota, and became a stock raiser and dealer on an extensive 
scale. In 1900 he removed to Sioux Falls and continued in the stock-
raising business until 1910, when he turned his attention to dealing in 
real estate. He has handled a great deal of valuable property and it 
was he who negotiated the sale of the Kaufman lands for two hundred 
thousand dollars, this being the largest deal in farming lands ever 
made in Sioux Falls. Mr. Charnock has built up a large and 
representative business, for he has become known as an expert judge of 
land values and as a man whose sagacity is far-reaching and whose 
integrity is beyond question. 

	On the 26th of August, 1890, at Fremont, Iowa, Mr. Charnock was 
united in marriage to Miss Rosa Roberts, a daughter of Ephraim Roberts, 
and they have become the parents of three children, Hartie B., Nina J. 
and Hazel E. 

	Mr. Charnock is a member of the Baptist church, belongs to the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and gives his political allegiance to 
the republican party In 1914 he was nominated for county commissioner 
and elected for a term of four years after a strenuous fight in both 
primary and election. He is preeminently a business man, energetic, 
determined and progressive, and an alert and enterprising spirit has 
kept him in touch with everything pertaining to his chosen line of 
work.