Harrison C. Newell Biography


	This biography appears on pages 902-903 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				HARRISON C. NEWELL

	Harrison C. Newell, president of the Power City Cold Storage & 
Produce Company, belongs to the class of men who recognize and seize 
opportunities that others pass heedlessly by and accordingly his 
efforts in the business world have led to success and have constituted 
a force in the material upbuilding of the city of Sioux Falls, in which 
he makes his home. 

	Mr. Newell was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, January 13, 1863, a 
son of Sullivan Samuel and Helen (Case) Newell, both of whom are 
deceased. The father engaged in business as a carpenter and builder. 
The son, Harrison C. Newell, attending the public schools of his native 
city, passed through consecutive grades until graduated from the high 
school with the class of 1883. The same year he came to Dakota, 
settling at Pierre, where he entered the employ of Ward & Frick, 
wholesale grocers. After three years the firm removed its business to 
Sioux Falls and Mr. Newell continued with the house in the latter 
place. In fact he remained with the firm until they sold out to Jewett 
& Jewett, with whom he continued until 1890, when he resigned his 
position to engage in the wholesale fruit and produce business on his 
own account, establishing what later became the Sioux Falls house of 
Haley & Lang. From 1894 until 1902 Mr. Newell engaged in the retail 
grocery business and later he began shipping and buying produce on an 
extensive scale, continuing his operations along that line until his 
business was merged with other interests in a new corporation known as 
the Power City Cold Storage & Produce Company, of which he has 
continuously been the president. This is today one of the important 
commercial enterprises of Sioux Falls, controlling a large trade in 
their line. Mr. Newell has been a prominent figure in the city's 
development since his arrival here twenty-eight years ago, having been 
identified with the organization of several of its most important 
enterprises. He is now largely interested in city real estate and with 
faith in the future of Sioux Falls has made extensive investments in 
property, his sound judgment in this regard being evidenced in the 
rapid advance in realty values. During the early years of his residence 
in Sioux Falls he represented his house upon the road and was probably 
the first commercial traveler out of the city for a Sioux Falls 
wholesale house. 

	In 1885 was celebrated the marriage of Harrison C. Newell and 
Miss Alice Train, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, by whom he has three children: 
Emma, Helen and May. In politics Mr. Newell is an independent 
republican and for one term served as a member of the city council but 
has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He belongs 
to the Unitarian church, to the Elks lodge and to the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen. He is also a member of the Minnehaha County Country 
Club and of the Commercial Club and is in hearty sympathy with the 
purpose of the latter organization in its efforts to upbuild the city 
along business and civic lines. One meeting him face to face easily 
recognizes that he is a dependable man under any and all circumstances. 
There are no esoteric chapters in his life history, the record being 
characterized by capability, fidelity and a high sense of personal and 
business honor.