Daniel Bruner Getty Biography


	This biography appears on pages 722-725 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				DANIEL BRUNER GETTY. 

	Daniel Bruner Getty, successfully engaged in the abstract 
business in Sioux Falls, has the social qualities, business ability and 
public spirit that render him a valued citizen of his adopted state. He 
was born in Providence Square, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 
February 10, 1865, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. David Todd Getty. The 
father, also a native of Pennsylvania, was of German and Irish descent. 
About 1867 he removed with his family to Iowa, establishing his home at 
Belle Plaine, where Daniel Bruner Getty became a public school pupil on 
reaching the required age. There he passed through consecutive grades 
until his text-books were put aside and he made his initial step in the 
business world. In the spring of 1885 he became a clerk in the office 
of the Iowa Mutual Benefit Association, an assessment life insurance 
company at Toledo, Iowa, where he remained until the autumn of 1886, 
when he removed to Sioux Falls to enter the employ of the Fargo 
Insurance Company, fire underwriters. 

	In the spring of 1887 he accepted a clerical position under Hon. 
Nyrum E. Phillips, then register of deeds of Minnehaha county. He was 
retained in the register's office much of the time until the spring of 
1893 and during that period practically had control of the abstract 
work in connection with the office. 

	When Mr. Phillips was appointed warden of the South Dakota State 
Penitentiary at Sioux Falls in the spring of 1893 he made Mr. Getty a 
clerk in the institution and both occupied their respective positions 
until May 10, 1899, when they resigned following the election of a 
populist governor. On the 27th of August of the same year Mr. Getty 
opened an abstract office in Sioux Falls and his long experience in 
connection with the practical work of the office of register of deeds 
has made his judgment in regard to real estate in his section 
authoritative and, according to a contemporary biographer; "he has 
gained a high reputation for accurate, neat and altogether admirable 
abstract work, while this fact, coupled with his personal popularity, 
has gained him a distinctively representative support." 

	Mr. Getty was married June 27, 1899, to Miss Blanche I. Metcalf, 
who was born at Lake Benton, Minnesota, June 27, 1873, a daughter of 
Edward S. and Anna Metcalf. Mr. and Mrs. Getty are widely known in 
Sioux Falls where they have an extensive circle of warm friends. Mr. 
Getty votes with the republican party of which he has always been a 
stalwart supporter, believing that its platform contains the best 
elements of good government. He is also identified with the Masonic 
order, the Elks lodge and with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and 
has many friends in those organizations.