F. R. Brumwell Biography


	This biography appears on pages 46-49 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				F. R. BRUMWELL. 

	F. R. Brumwell, a prominent and prosperous citizen of Huron, has 
here been engaged in the lumber business for the past quarter of a 
century and during that period has also handled the Deere farm 
machinery. He has likewise devoted considerable attention to the cattle 
business and owns an extensive ranch. His birth occurred in Iowa in 
1859, his parents being Jacob and Sarah Brumwell, the former a farmer 
by occupation. Our subject attended the public schools in the 
acquirement of an education and subsequently became identified with the 
flour mill business at Shellsburg, Iowa. In 1882, when a young man of 
twenty three, he made his way to Huron, South Dakota, afterward 
returned to his native state and in the spring of 1883 took up his 
permanent abode here, embarking in the flour, feed and fuel business. 
Ill 1888 he also became identified with the lumber business, which has 
claimed his attention throughout the intervening quarter of a century 
and in which he has met with gratifying success, owning yards at Huron, 
Cavour, St. Lawrence and Vayland and a newly established branch in 
Sioux Falls. During the past twenty-eight years he has also handled 
Deere farm machinery, his carefully managed interests in this 
connection augmenting his prosperity. He likewise has extensive 
agricultural interests and has devoted considerable attention to the 
cattle industry, owning the Plumbdale ranch of twenty-five hundred 
acres. Mr. Brumwell is a factor in financial circles as a director of 
the National Bank of Huron and was formerly the president of the old 
National Bank of Dakota. He has earned for himself an enviable 
reputation as a careful man of business, and in his dealings is known 
for his prompt and honorable methods, which have won him the deserved 
and unbounded confidence of his fellow men. 

	In 1887 Mr. Brumwell was united in marriage to Miss Clara E. 
Bowe, of Huron, South Dakota, who is a native of Iowa. Her father, S. 
A. Bowe, came to Huron in 1883 and was first engaged in business in 
association with F. R. Brumwell, while subsequently he went to the 
Black Hills. He now resides in North Dakota. Our subject and his wife 
have four living children. 

	Mr. Brumwell gives his political allegiance to the republican 
party, while fraternally he is identified with the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen, the Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Masons. 
He is connected with the last named order as a member of the blue 
lodge, chapter, council and commandery at Huron, has attained the 
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of the Mystic 
Shrine. No breadth of suspicion has ever assailed his good name and on 
the contrary he stands as a splendid type of the honorable, reliable. 
successful man, the public spirited citizen and the trustworthy friend.