Roland A. Fortune Biography


	This biography appears on page 1193 in "History of Dakota 
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				ROLAND A. FORTUNE. 

	Roland A. Fortune, a progressive and enterprising young 
agriculturist residing on section 26, Mapleton township, Minnehaha 
county, makes a specialty of live stock and has won well merited 
success in his undertakings. He is numbered among the worthy native 
sons of South Dakota, his birth having occurred in Sioux Falls 
township, Minnehaha county, on the 27th of December, 1890. His parents 
are John and Carrie (Ryder) Fortune, the former born in Lake county, 
Illinois, and the latter in Holland, Michigan. John Fortune came to 
this state as a young man in 1872, while the mother of our subject was 
brought here by her parents in 1875. In the year of his arrival the 
former preempted one hundred and sixty acres in Mapleton township, 
Minnehaha county, which is the farm on which our subject now lives, and 
subsequently homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres in Sioux Falls 
township and also purchased one hundred and twenty acres adjoining his 
preemption, making his holdings at one time four hundred and forty 
acres. In recent years, however, he has sold the homestead, and during 
the past two years Mr. Fortune has made his home in Palo Alto, 
California. 

	Roland A. Fortune was reared under the parental roof and acquired 
his education in the public schools, also pursuing a course of study in 
Toland's Business College of Sioux Falls. In 1910 he began farming the 
home place in Mapleton township in partnership with his father and a 
year later rented the property, which he has thus cultivated to the 
present time. He specializes in live stock, raising about one hundred 
hogs annually and feeding a car load of cattle each year. Success has 
attended his efforts in gratifying degree, and he is widely recognized 
as one of the representative and substantial young agriculturists of 
his community. 

	On the 27th of November, 1912, Mr. Fortune was united in marriage 
to Miss Frances McClosky, of Kinsman, Illinois, by whom he has one 
child, John Henry. In his political views Mr. Fortune is independent, 
supporting men and measures rather than party. Both he and his wife are 
devout communicants of the Catholic church and have many friends in the 
locality where they reside.