Amzi Beardemphl Biography


	This biography appears on pages 342-343 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				AMZI BEARDEMPHL. 

	Amzi Beardemphl is busily engaged in the cultivation of a farm of 
three hundred and twenty acres, situated in Jefferson township, Spink 
county. He is a young man of marked enterprise and determination, not 
afraid of work and eager at all times to improve his opportunities. 
South Dakota numbers him among her native sons and he was born May 25, 
1890, his parents being Charles and Lydia (Ward) Beardemphl. The father 
was one of the first settlers of Spink county, casting in his lot there 
when the district was an almost unbroken wilderness. He took up a 
homestead, broke the sod, began to plant the fields and cultivate his 
crops and in due time as the result of the success which he had already 
achieved he was able to increase his holdings and add to his farm until 
within its boundaries were comprised six hundred and forty acres. For a 
considerable period he continuously and successfully operated his land 
and then retired, taking up his abode at Des Moines) Washington. The 
family name indicates that they are of German lineage. 

	Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Amzi 
Beardemphl attended the country schools and afterward continued his 
education in Ashton, but put aside his textbooks when he reached the 
age of fourteen and concentrated his efforts upon farm work, assisting 
his parents until his father's retirement from active business. He then 
went with his parents to the state of Washington but returned to South 
Dakota within a year and began to cultivate rented land. He has since 
carried on general agricultural pursuits and is now busily engaged in 
cultivating a farm of three hundred and twenty acres in Jefferson 
township, not far from Ashton. Success has crowned his efforts and 
annually he gathers good harvests as a reward for the care and labor 
which he bestows upon his fields. 

	On the 5th of April, 1913, at Redfield, Mr. Beardemphl was 
married to Miss Edith Bymers, a daughter of Peter and Flora (Spoolstra) 
Bymers, the former a farmer of Spink county. They have one child, 
Lydia, and in 1915 lost one, Edith May, at the age of six weeks. Mr. 
Beardemphl is yet a young man, his life record covering only a quarter 
of a century. He has made a creditable name and place for himself and 
the future will undoubtedly bring to him larger success, for he is 
industrious and ambitious.