Daily Martin Curl Biography


	This biography appears on pages 971-972 in "History of Dakota 
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				DAILY MARTIN CURL. 

	A growing district always offers an excellent field to the 
enterprising real estate mall and the efforts of Daily Martin Curl in 
this direction have been a patent force in bringing success to the 
Western Land Security Company since he became its secretary and 
treasurer in 1911. He had a good collegiate training and broad 
practical experience in business life ere entering upon his present 
connection and he has made creditable success for one of his years. 

	Mr. Curl was born upon a farm in Shelby county, Iowa, March 6, 
1880, and is a son of Martin Luther and Abigail (Barbee) Curl, both of 
whom were natives of Ohio. Both the father and the grandfather served 
as privates in the Civil war, being members of the same company. In the 
country schools of Shelby county the son began his education which was 
supplemented by a year's study in the Normal School at Logan, Iowa, and 
two years in the Iowa State College. He studied mechanical engineering 
while in college and afterward followed the profession for eight years, 
but in 1911 withdrew from that field of activity. He had been a 
resident of Sioux Falls since 1909 and realizing that there were 
excellent opportunities for the real-estate man, owing to the rapid and 
substantial growth of the city, he embarked in the real-estate business 
in 1911, becoming secretary and treasurer of the Western Land Security 
Company. He has thoroughly acquainted himself with realty values, knows 
the property that is upon the market and through his enterprising 
methods and close connection with the business has been able to 
negotiate many important realty transfers. 

	On the 19th of March, 1907, in Omaha, Nebraska, Mr. Curl was 
united in marriage to Miss Jennie Ann Wilson, a daughter of Andrew W. 
Wilson, and they have one child, Dorothy Mildred, born November 25, 
1910. 

	Mr. Curl holds membership with the Methodist Episcopal church and 
honorable principles actuate him in every relation of life. His 
political allegiance is given to the republican party and fraternally 
he is connected with the Masons and the Odd Fellows. In the York Rite 
of Masonry he has attained the Knight Templar degree and he has also 
crossed the sands of the desert with the nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 
His life exemplifies his Christian belief and the beneficent teachings 
of the Masonic fraternity which are based upon the principles of mutual 
helpfulness and brotherly kindness. He has gained many friends during 
his residence in Sioux Falls and high respect is everywhere accorded 
him by those who know him.