Zell Guthrie Biography


	This biography appears on page 902 in "History of Dakota 
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				ZELL GUTHRIE. 

	Zell Guthrie, a practicing attorney of Pierre, enjoys a well 
merited reputation as one of the able and successful representatives of 
the legal profession in South Dakota. His birth occurred at Lincoln, 
Illinois, on the 24th of June, 1879, his parents being Alfred S. and 
Julia A. Guthrie, the former of Scotch descent and the latter of 
Pennsylvania-Dutch stock. The Guthrie family was first represented in 
this country among the early settlers of Connecticut, later removed to 
New York and thence to Ohio. 

	Zell Guthrie pursued his education in the Pierre high school, the 
University of South Dakota, Valparaiso University and the University of 
Minnesota, preparing for the practice of law, which profession he had 
chosen as a life work. His success in a professional way affords the 
best evidence of his capabilities in this line. He is a strong advocate 
with the jury and concise in his appeals before the court. Much of the 
success which has attended him in his professional career is 
undoubtedly due to the fact that in no instance will he permit himself 
to go into court with a case unless he has absolute confidence in the 
justice of his client's cause. Basing his efforts on this principle, 
from which there are far too many lapses in professional ranks, it 
naturally follows that he seldom loses a case in whose support he is 
enlisted. Mr. Guthrie is extensively interested in Pierre city 
property. During the period of the Spanish-American war he served as 
lieutenant in the famous First South Dakota Infantry of United States 
Volunteers. Mr. Guthrie has served as secretary of the Old Settlers 
Association of Pierre since 1910. Politically he is a republican.