S. T. Kirkeby Biography


	This biography appears on page 1199 in "History of Dakota 
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				S. T. KIRKEBY. 

	S. T. Kirkeby, residing on section 30, Sverdrup township, 
Minnehaha county, is the owner of two hundred acres of excellent 
farming land and has carried on agricultural pursuits with gratifying 
results. His birth occurred in Norway on the 16th of February, 1866, 
his parents being Torger G. and Kirsti S. (Tidemann) Kirkeby. In 1869 
the family emigrated to the United States, locating in Goodhue county, 
Minnesota, and four years later came to South Dakota. Here the father 
homesteaded the farm on which our subject now resides, devoting his 
attention to agricultural pursuits throughout the remainder of his 
active business career and passing away in 1909 at the age of seventy-
eight years. His demise was the occasion of deep and widespread regret, 
for he had gained an extensive circle of friends in the community which 
was his home for more than a third of a century. His wife was called to 
her final rest in 1902, when in the seventy-eighth year of her age. 

	S. T. Kirkeby, who was a lad of seven years when he came to this 
state with his parents, attended the country schools in the acquirement 
of an education and after attaining his majority continued at home, 
farming in cooperation with his father. In 1896 the latter deeded the 
property to his son. Five years before, in 1891, S. T. Kirkeby had 
purchased an adjoining forty-acre tract, so that his holdings embrace 
two hundred acres of rich and productive land. He has operated the 
place continuously to the present time and has won a gratifying measure 
of success in his undertakings as an agriculturist by reason of his 
practical methods and splendid management. 

	In 1899 Mr. Kirkeby was united in marriage to Miss Britha 
Johnson, of Minnehaha county, South Dakota, whose birth occurred in 
Sweden. They now have seven children, namely: Theodore, John, Gideon, 
Thora, Phillip, Norman and Sigfred, all at home. 

	Mr. Kirkeby gives his political allegiance to the republican 
party, while his religious faith is that of the Lutheran church, to 
which his wife also belongs. He has an extensive and favorable 
acquaintance throughout the community in which he has now resided for 
more than four decades and enjoys an enviable reputation as one of its 
representative citizens and prosperous agriculturists.