Edward O. Sexe Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1192-1193 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				EDWARD O. SEXE. 

	Edward O. Sexe, a progressive and substantial agriculturist of 
South Dakota who has resided in this state for more than three decades, 
is the owner of an excellent farm comprising one hundred and forty 
acres on section 22, Valley Springs township, Minnehaha county. His 
birth occurred in Norway on the 13th of August, 1862, his parents being 
Ole Olson and Torbjor Sexe, both of whom are deceased. The father 
followed blacksmithing and farming throughout his active business 
career. 

	Edward O. Sexe acquired a thorough education in the public 
schools of his native land and after putting aside his text-books 
sailed before the mast for three years on the waters about Norway. He 
then emigrated to the United States, locating in Illinois on the 28th 
of March, 1881, and working as a farm hand in that state for two years. 
On the expiration of that period he came to South Dakota, taking up his 
abode at Valley Springs in March, 1883. He first worked as a farm hand 
for one year and then purchased a team and rented a tract of land which 
he cultivated for two years. At the end of that time he bought his 
present farm of one hundred and forty acres on section 22, Valley 
Springs township, range 47 and township 101. He has operated the place 
continuously throughout all the intervening years and has made 
improvements thereon to the value of seven thousand dollars. Mr. Sexe 
utilizes the latest improved machinery in the work of the fields and 
conducts his farming interests in accord with the most practical and 
resultant methods. He also feeds twenty five head of cattle and sixty 
head of hogs, and he is a stockholder in the Hills (Minn.) Cooperative 
Creamery Company. 

	On the 10th of February, 1892, Mr. Sexe was united in marriage to 
Miss Julia Quam, a daughter of Hans and Randi Quam, both of whom have 
passed away. Our subject and his wife had the following children: Tilda 
Rosana, Hattie Ovidia, Mabel Louise, and Gertrude Amanda, all at home; 
Edna Julia, who died March 18, 1915; and Cora Margaret, also at home. 

	In his political views Mr. Sexe is a progressive, advocating and 
supporting the principles set forth by Theodore Roosevelt at the time 
of the birth of the new party. His religious faith is that of the 
Lutheran church, while fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen. 
He came to the new world with but little capital and has worked his way 
steadily upward to a position of prosperity and comfort. He enjoys an 
extensive and favorable acquaintance throughout the community which has 
now been his home for more than three decades and is widely recognized 
as a representative and public-spirited citizen who gives helpful 
support to all movements calculated to advance the best interests of 
his adopted state.