Norman O. Hamlin Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1049-1050 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				NORMAN O. HAMLIN.  

	Norman O. Hamlin, one of the foremost citizens and enterprising 
agriculturists of Sioux Falls township, Minnehaha county, residing on 
section 34, is busily engaged in the cultivation of about four hundred 
and sixty acres of land and also conducts a dairy business. His birth 
occurred in Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d of October, 1871, his parents 
being William B. and Eva A. (Barney) Hamlin, who were born, reared and 
married in the. state of New York. About 1870 they removed to Toledo, 
Ohio, where the father was employed as foreman in a planing mill for 
about five years. On the expiration of that period he removed to 
Chicago, where for about eight years he was identified with the retail 
grocery business. In 1883 he located in Hyde county, South Dakota, and 
there entered a homestead, took up a tree claim and also preempted a 
quarter section of land. In 1895 or 1896, however, he sold his holdings 
and took up his abode in Highmore, where he has since made his home. 
William B. Hamlin is a veteran of the Civil war, serving for two years 
in the Twenty-fourth New York Infantry and subsequently reenlisting 
with the First New York Veteran Cavalry. He remained with the army 
during the entire period of hostilities between the north and the south 
and held the rank of first sergeant of his troop at the time of his 
discharge. For a number of years he served as police justice and chief 
of police at Highmore, Hyde county, where he is most widely and 
favorably known, having now lived in the county for more than three 
decades.  

	Norman O. Hamlin was reared at home and acquired a common-school 
education in his youth, also pursuing a commercial course in the Sioux 
Falls Business College. Following the completion of his studies he 
secured a position with the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company as 
cashier and bookkeeper, remaining with that concern for two years and 
being appointed assistant manager of the Sioux Falls branch shortly 
prior to his resignation in 1903. In that year he rented a tract of 
land near Colman, in Moody county, and turned his attention to general 
agricultural pursuits, farming there for four years. In 1908 he located 
in Minnehaha county and has since resided in Sioux Falls township, 
where he is engaged in farming on an extensive scale, cultivating a 
tract of rented land comprising about four hundred and sixty acres. He 
also conducts a dairy business, milking about twenty-five cows, and in 
both branches of his business has met with a gratifying measure of 
success. He has recently purchased a farm of forty acres one mile south 
of the city limits of Sioux Falls.  

	On the 17th of August, 1901, Mr. Hamlin was united in marriage to 
Miss Nellie A. Dunlap, a native of Colman, South Dakota, and a daughter 
of R. J. Dunlap, Jr. The latter is a prominent stock buyer and farmer 
of Colman who came to this state in 1877. Our subject and his wife have 
two children, Gladys E. and Norman William. Mr. Hamlin gives his 
political allegiance to the republican party and is identified 
fraternally with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He has many 
attractive social qualities which have gained him warm friends, and he 
deserves to be ranked among the representative citizens of the state.