H. J. Draheim Biography


	This biography appears on page 744 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				H. J. DRAHEIM. 

	H. T. Draheim, who has devoted his attention to the lumber 
business throughout the entire period of his active career, is well 
known in Aberdeen as the founder and head of the H. J. Draheim Lumber 
Company, retail dealers in lumber and fuel. He was born in Wisconsin in 
1874, and acquired his education in the public schools of Fennimore, 
that state. Following the completion of his high-school course he 
engaged in the lumber business there, and afterward was connected with 
lumber interests in Storm Lake, Webster City and Waterloo, Iowa. From 
the latter city he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was in the 
lumber business there for ten years. He located in Aberdeen in 1912 and 
bought out the business controlled by the Hollinsworth-Hart Lumber 
Company, which was established about 1898. On the 15th of March, 1912, 
Mr. Draheim organized the H. J. Draheim Lumber Company and he has since 
given practically his entire time to the affairs of this concern, which 
by reason of his able management has become one of the most important 
of its kind in the city. The yards occupy fifteen lots at the corner of 
Washington street and First avenue and the enterprise furnishes 
employment to eight men regularly. The company deals in fuel and lumber 
and controls an important and growing patronage. Mr. Draheim has 
directed the policy of the concern along progressive and modern lines 
and is today at the head of a large industrial enterprise. During his 
long connection with the lumber trade he has become thoroughly familiar 
with every department of the business and has met with most excellent 
success. 

	On the 27th of October, 1897, Mr. Draheim was united in marriage 
to Miss Minnie Fischer, of Stitzer, Wisconsin. He holds membership in 
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is able, energetic and 
resourceful and his name stands high in both business and social 
circles.