Charles Lansing Dawley Biography


	This biography appears on page 32 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				CHARLES LANSING DAWLEY. 

	Charles Lansing Dawley, successfully engaged in the real-estate 
and insurance business at De Smet, is well known as one of the honored 
pioneer settlers of the state, coming here more than a third of a 
century ago. His birth occurred in Plymouth, Wisconsin, on the 29th of 
February, 1856, his parents being Richard L. and Mary (Averill) Dawley. 
He acquired his education in the public schools of St. Charles, 
Minnesota, and in 1879, when a young man of twenty-three years, came to 
South Dakota, locating at Goodwin, Deuel county. When De Smet was 
platted he removed to that place and there embarked in the lumber 
business, being thus engaged for six years. On the expiration of that 
period he was appointed clerk of courts under the Cleveland 
administration, holding that position all through the territorial days 
and serving as clerk under Judge, afterward Governor, Church. When the 
territory was divided he embarked in the real-estate and insurance 
business and in that field of activity has remained continuously to the 
present time, having won a gratifying and well merited measure of 
prosperity through the careful conduct of his interests. After arriving 
in this state he preempted the northwest quarter of section 22, 
township 111, range 56, and also homesteaded the southeast quarter of 
section 21, township 111, range 56, and encountered many of the 
experiences and hardships of the pioneer in an undeveloped and sparsely 
settled region. 

	On the 7th of December, 1887, Mr. Dawley was united in marriage 
to Miss Florence Garland, a daughter of Walter Garland; who came to 
South Dakota in the year 1878. To them have been born two children, 
namely: Edmund, who died when eighteen years of age; and Walter A. 

	Mr. Dawley is a stanch democrat in his political views and has 
done able service as a member of the city council and the school board. 
Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, having attained the 
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and being a member of the 
Mystic Shrine at Sioux Falls. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen of America. Hunting and fishing 
afford him recreation and pleasure and he is equally popular and 
esteemed in the social as well as the business circles of his adopted 
city and state.