Eugene Saenger Biography


	This biography appears on page 684 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				EUGENE SAENGER.

	Among those who have contributed in substantial measure to the 
commercial development of Sioux Falls is numbered Eugene Saenger, whose 
energy, enterprise and aggressiveness have been powerful factors in the 
building up of the bindery and office supply business controlled by the 
firm of Brown & Saenger, Incorporated. He was born in Freeport, 
Illinois, February 13, 1860, and is a son of Louis and Marie (Rach) 
Saenger, natives of Germany The father fled from that country in 1848 
and emigrated to America, where he remained only a short time. He then 
returned to Europe, going to Switzerland near the German border line, 
where he met his future wife, who crossed the border to meet him. They 
were married in Switzerland and went from there to America, locating at 
Freeport, Illinois, where both passed away on the same day. 

	Eugene Saenger acquired his education in the public schools of 
Freeport and in 1874 entered the office of the Freeport Journal, a 
daily and weekly newspaper. There he learned the bookbinder's trade and 
followed it afterward in Freeport until the fall of 1881, when he moved 
to Cedar Rapids, where he was for eight years connected with the 
Republican Printing Company. On the 1st of May, 1889, Mr. Saenger moved 
to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and, in association with Colonel Thomas 
G. Brown, established a bindery and an office supply business under the 
name of Brown & Saenger. This continued as a copartnership until 
February 14, 1908, when Colonel Brown retired, the business being 
incorporated as Brown & Saenger, Incorporated. At this time Joseph L. 
Elliott entered the firm as secretary and treasurer. Brown & Saenger, 
Incorporated, control a large and growing business in office supplies 
and their bindery is one of the largest in the city. The concern is 
conducted along modern business lines and has had a rapid and steady 
growth Mr. Saenger has given practically his entire time and attention 
to its development and his success has placed him among the leading 
business men of Sioux Falls. 

	On the 30th of September, 1891, in Sioux Falls, Mr. Saenger was 
united in marriage to Miss Alice M. Richardson, a daughter of the late 
Benjamin W. and Mary C. Richardson, the former a captain of Company C, 
Eighty-first New York Volunteers, during the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. 
Saenger have become the parents of a son, Ben, born March 20, 1893. Mr. 
Saenger gives his political allegiance to the republican party He holds 
membership in the Dacotah and Country Clubs and is prominent in 
Masonry, having taken the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. 
His course has at all times conformed to the highest business 
principles and his integrity, honesty and ability have gained him an 
enviable position in business circles.