Knute E. Seim Biography


	This biography appears on pages 290 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				KNUTE E. SEIM.  

	Knute E. Seim. vice president of the Bank of Vienna, is one of 
the popular and prominent young business men of Clark county. His birth 
occurred in Norway on the 29th of November, 1884, his parents being 
Wiling and Ragnilda Seim, who emigrated to the United States and 
established their home at Willow Lakes, Clark county, South Dakota, in 
1890. The father here purchased six hundred acres of land and still 
cultivates the property, having met with a gratifying measure of 
success in his undertakings as an agriculturist. Both Mr. and Mrs. 
Wiling Seim are well known and highly esteemed throughout the community 
which has now been their home for a quarter of a century.  

	Knute E. Seim, who was a lad of six years when brought to this 
state by his parents, attended the public schools in the acquirement of 
an education, and after putting aside his text-books assisted his 
father in the operation of the home farm. Subsequently he was employed 
in a store at Vienna, Clark county, for three years, and afterward was 
engaged in the grain business at that place for a similar period. In 
1910 he was elected county treasurer on the republican ticket, took 
office on the 1st of January, 1911, and was reelected in 1912, serving 
two terms in that position. He made a most creditable and highly 
commendable record in that capacity, discharging the important duties 
devolving upon him in a prompt and efficient manner. He is vice 
president of the Bank of Vienna and is known as an able and progressive 
business man.  

On the 24th of November, 1908, he was united in marriage to Miss Emma 
Knadle, a daughter of John and Mary Knadle, of Vienna. They have two 
children: Kenneth born in 1909; and Eileen, born in 1914. In politics 
Mr. Seim is a stanch republican, while his religious faith is that of 
the Lutheran church. His fraternal relations are with the Masons, the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and 
fishing and hunting afford him recreation. A man of genial, cordial 
nature, he has gained the goodwill and friendship of all with whom he 
has been associated in public, fraternal and social relations.