Ernest J. Archer Biography


	This biography appears on page 349 in "History of Dakota 
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				ERNEST J. ARCHER. 

	Ernest J. Archer, whose demise occurred at Sioux Falls on the 
16th of January, 1906, was for a number of years actively and 
successfully identified with agricultural interests in Minnehaha 
county, owning four hundred and eighty acres of valuable land in 
Buffalo township at the time of his death, and enjoyed an enviable 
reputation as one of the highly esteemed and representative citizens of 
his community. His birth occurred in Illinois on the 15th of February, 
1859, his father being John Archer, who removed from the Prairie state 
to South Dakota in 1881, when our subject was a young man of twenty-two 
years. The parents homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land in 
Buffalo township, Minnehaha county, but for about eighteen years prior 
to his death John Archer resided in Sioux Falls. He was an honored 
veteran of the Civil war and gained an extensive and favorable 
acquaintance in his home community. 

	Ernest J. Archer attended the common schools of his native state 
in the acquirement of an education and in 1881 came with his parents to 
Minnehaha county, South Dakota, taking up a homestead in section 24, 
Buffalo township, on which he resided until within two and a half years 
of his demise. At that time he took up his abode in Sioux Falls, where 
he died of heart disease, from which he had long suffered. He met with 
well merited success in the conduct of his agricultural interests and 
had extended the boundaries of his farm until at the time of his death 
it embraced four hundred and eighty acres of rich and productive land. 

	On the 27th of January, 1887, Mr. Archer was united in marriage 
to Miss Laura Radspinner of Grand Meadow township, Minnehaha county, 
her father being Charles H. Radspinner, who came to South Dakota from 
Clayton county, Iowa, in 1879, and homesteaded in Grand Meadow 
township. His death occurred in Sioux Falls. To Mr. and Mrs. Archer 
were born four children, as follows: Rosa May, who is the wife of Pete 
Sorenson, of Sioux Falls; and Fay Elton, Walter Allen and Henry Ernest, 
all of whom are engaged in the operation of the home farm. Mr. Archer 
was identified fraternally with the Modern Woodmen. His demise was the 
occasion of deep and widespread regret, for he had won many friends 
during the twenty five years of his residence in Minnehaha county. Mrs. 
Archer is widely and favorably known throughout the community as a 
woman of many excellent traits of heart and mind.