Patrick M. Manger Biography


	This biography appears on pages 21-22 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				PATRICK M. MAGNER.  

	Patrick M. Magner, who is engaged in farming on section 5, in 
Yankton precinct of Yankton county, is a son of David and Mary 
(Creighton) Magner. The father was born in Cork, Ireland, and brought 
by his parents to the state of New York. His wife was born in Dublin, 
Ireland, and with a brother and a friend came to the United States and 
settled at Woodstock, Illinois, where she was married to David Magner, 
having previously removed westward to the locality. In 1874 the parents 
of our subject came to South Dakota. The father, who was a shoemaker, 
worked at his trade in Woodstock and also in Yankton up to the time of 
his death, which occurred in 1876. His widow survived him and reared 
their two sons, Michael and Patrick, the former now a business man of 
Yankton. The mother passed away in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1908.  

	Patrick M. Magner grew to manhood in Yankton and in early life 
became interested in athletics, especially in boxing. He became a 
professional and in about thirty matches in the featherweight class 
lost but one. Since retiring from the ring he has been engaged in 
farming. He first purchased one hundred alla sixty acres of land in 
1902 and since that time has added to his holdings until his home ranch 
comprises five hundred and twenty acres, on which he has one of the 
finest sets of farm buildings in Yankton county or in South Dakota. He 
is continually adding to his buildings and to his property as the 
increase of his business demands. He is exclusively a stockman, selling 
no grain, and often buying some to feed upon the home ranch. He also 
has a farm of more than ten hundred and twenty acres ten miles west of 
Yankton, on which he raises large quantities of grain. His farming 
operations are conducted on an extensive scale. A large farm traction 
engine is used in the heavy plowing and hauling and in the threshing 
and other operations on the farm. Seventy-five horses are necessary on 
the two farms. The annual output includes three or four hundred cattle 
and one thousand hogs, and is equaled by but few producers in the 
state. Mr. Magner follows advanced scientific methods and seems to have 
discovered the secret of preventing disease among hogs by feeding them 
while they are growing on oats, giving them no corn except for the 
finish a month or two before sending them to the market. His herds have 
been at all times free from the usual ravages of disease. He is also a 
believer in alfalfa, having out about one hundred and seventy-five 
acres of it. Since becoming well established in his others lines he has 
added dairying to his business. He started by selling milk and now 
supplies a large part of the milk and cream used in Yankton.  

	Mr. Magner was married October 21, 1905, to Miss Maude A. Paul, 
who was born near Iowa City, Iowa, November 21, 1871, a daughter of 
William L. and Alice (Carney) Paul. who in 1878 removed westward to 
Buffalo county, Nebraska, settling half way between Kearney and 
Orleans. Mr. Paul, having served as a soldier throughout the Civil war, 
was compelled to live on his claim for only about a year, when he 
received title to it. The family resided on the claim while Mr. Paul 
followed his vocation of contracting and building in Kearney and 
Orleans and as soon as he received a patent to the land he moved his 
family to Kearney, where the children were educated. While upon the 
claim the family lived in a sod house and the school which the children 
attended during that period was also a sod structure. The mother died a 
few years after the removal to Kearney and the family afterward 
scattered. Mrs. Magner came to Yankton and made her home with old 
family friends until her marriage. She became interested in farming 
before her marriage and for several years after had charge of the place 
before Mr. Magner took an active part in running the business. Her 
knowledge of agriculture and stock-raising is equal to that of her 
husband's and theirs are among the most important and extensive 
interests of Yankton county and that section of the state. They have 
four big silos holding over one thousand tons and furnishing ensilage 
for the large number of cattle and hogs annually fed and marketed on 
the Magner farm.  

	Mr. Magner is a republican in his political views but does not 
seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his 
agricultural and stock-raising interests, which have brought him to a 
prominent position among the successful farmers of his part of the 
state.