Samuel Iossi Biography


	This biography appears on page 1246 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				SAMUEL IOSSI. 

	Samuel Iossi, an agriculturist residing on section 19, Taopi 
township, is the owner of two hundred and ninety-seven acres comprising 
one of the most fertile farms in Minnehaha county. His birth occurred 
in Switzerland on the 20th of November, 1862, his parents being Christ 
and Elizabeth Iossi. The mother died when our subject was but four 
years of age, and in 1890 the father joined his son Samuel in the 
United States, making his home with him until his death in 1903. 

	Samuel Iossi was reared under the parental roof and in the 
acquirement of an education attended the public schools of his native 
country. He learned the trade of a stonemason in early manhood and in 
1887, when twenty-five years of age, emigrated to the United States, 
taking up his abode in Linn county, Iowa. There he worked in the 
creamery business for five or six years and subsequently turned his 
attention to agricultural pursuits, cultivating rented land in Iowa for 
five years. In 1899 he removed to Nebraska and purchased one hundred 
and sixty acres of land in Cedar county, residing on that property for 
thirteen years. On the expiration of that period, in 1912, he came to 
South Dakota and bought a farm of two hundred and ninety-seven acres in 
Taopi township, Minnehaha county, which he has operated successfully to 
the present time. He engages in general farming and has always followed 
the most progressive methods, so that he has met with gratifying and 
well deserved success. 

	In 1891 Mr. Iossi was united in marriage to Miss Susie Egger, a 
native of Germany, by whom he has nine children, namely: Emma, Louis, 
William, Elizabeth, Marie, Selma, Albert, Fred and Ida. All are at 
home. In his political views Mr. Iossi is independent, supporting men 
and measures rather than party. His religious faith is indicated by his 
membership in the German Reformed church, to which his wife also 
belongs. Coming to the new world in young manhood, Mr. Iossi eagerly 
availed himself of the opportunities here afforded and has worked his 
way steadily upward to a position among the prosperous and respected 
citizens of his community.