Andrew William Palm Biography


	This biography appears on page 835 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				ANDREW WILLIAM PALM. 

	Andrew William Palm, of Watertown, is the efficient, widely known 
and popular superintendent of the Better Farming Association of 
Codington county. He is a young man, full of hope for the future, 
energetic, determined and withal practical in his undertakings, and in 
his study of a situation he goes to the root of the matter and 
recognizes fully the difficulties as well as the opportunities. He was 
born at Lake Norden, this state, on the 1st of April, 1887, a son of 
Andrew P. and B. Mary Palm, who were natives of Sweden. They came to 
the United States from that country early in the '80s and the father, 
who is a Baptist minister, has been continuously engaged in church work 
in South Dakota for a quarter of a century, being still active in that 
field of labor in which the moral interests of the state are advanced. 
His wife also survives. 

	In his youthful days Andrew W. Palm attended the district schools 
and afterward the Castlewood high school, while subsequently he pursued 
a four years, agricultural course at Brookings, being there graduated 
with the class of 1910. For three years he engaged in farming and 
during the winter months lectured on farmer's institute work. His 
thorough grasp of the subject caused him to be chosen superintendent of 
the Better Farming Association of Codington county at its institution 
on the 1st of April, 1913, and he has been very successful in promoting 
this work since assuming charge. He has laid out demonstration fields 
among the farms of the county, thus giving practical proof of what may 
be accomplished by the scientific methods which he advocates. He has 
closely studied soil and climatic conditions and knows the nature of 
the crops that can be best cultivated. 

	Mr. Palm enjoys hunting and fishing when it is possible for him 
to get away from his duties, or an automobile trip through the country. 
He is a prohibitionist in politics, staunchly advocating the temperance 
cause, and his religious faith is that of the Baptist church. His has 
been a well spent life, in which he has adhered to those principles 
which work for honorable manhood, for public welfare and for 
progressive citizenship.