Gen. C. H. Englesby Biography


	This biography appears on pages 672, 673 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				GENERAL C. H. ENGLESBY.

	General C. H. Englesby, of Watertown, formerly adjutant general 
of the state, has a splendid record as soldier and legislator and is 
one of the men who are widely known throughout the confines of South 
Dakota. He was born in Brown county, Minnesota, in 1869, a son of Philo 
F. Englesby, of Minnesota and Dakota, a pioneer and a veteran of the 
Civil war. The military spirit characterized the family for many 
generations and the subject of this review is a direct descendant of an 
officer of the Revolutionary war. 

	The General came with his parents to Watertown, South Dakota, in 
1879 and was educated in the public schools in that town and in the 
State College at Brookings. After leaving school he entered the field 
of journalism and became the editor and publisher of the Watertown 
Kampeskian, a weekly newspaper which he conducted successfully for five 
years, from 1893 to 1898. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American war 
he became captain of Company H, First South Dakota Volunteers, and for 
a year served with his regiment in the Philippines. During the 
Philippine insurrection he participated in twenty-two engagements. with 
the natives and commanded a battalion throughout the campaign. He was 
slightly wounded in one of the engagements during the American advance 
on Malolos.

	After the close of his service in the army General Englesby 
returned to South Dakota and in 1901 took his seat as a member of the 
state senate, serving as such until 1905. In 1909 he was honored by 
election to the lower house of the state legislature. He did much 
valuable work both in the committee room and upon the floor of the 
house and aided in securing the enactment of a number of laws that have 
proved of great value to the people of the state. In 1905 he was 
appointed adjutant general of the state, being reappointed three times 
and serving in that capacity until March, 1912. 

	General Englesby was married in 1895 to Miss Julia E. Parker, a 
daughter of the Rev. G. H. Parker, a Baptist clergyman of Watertown. 
Four children have been born to this union, of whom three are living: 
Adaline, now sixteen years of age; Ruth, twelve years of age, and 
Charles P., eight years old. One son, Hugh, died in infancy. 

	General Englesby has been active in the Masons, the Elks, the 
Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen and is 
widely known in fraternal circles of the state. He has served his 
country with unselfish devotion as a soldier in time of war and his 
state as a legislator in the time of peace, and his life record is a 
credit to himself and to the family name.