John T. Doyle Biography


	This biography appears on pages 284 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				JOHN T. DOYLE. 

	John T. Doyle, postmaster of Plankinton, was born in Scott 
county, lowa, on the 3d of February, 1879, a son of John and Ellen 
Doyle. The father, who was a farmer, has passed away. John T. Doyle 
took a commercial course at the Iowa State College, after completing 
his studies in the public schools, and upon starting out for himself 
engaged in farming in his native state. In 1901, however, he came to 
South Dakota, locating first at Alexandria, Hanson county. Some time 
later he invested in land in Aurora county and shell removed to 
Plankinton, where he engaged in the real-estate business until 
appointed postmaster by President Wilson, taking charge of the office 
on the 22d of May, 1914. He is naturally methodical and accurate and 
the affairs of the office are managed efficiently and with dispatch. He 
is also connected with a number of local concerns, being a stockholder 
of the Farmers Elevator Company, of the Fair Association and of the 
Citizens Cooperative Telephone Company. 

	Mr. Doyle was married on the 28th of April, 1899, to Miss Agnes 
O'Connor, a daughter of Dennis D. O'Connor. Mr. Doyle is a communicant 
of the Catholic church and fraternally is connected with Maher Council, 
Knights of Columbus, at Mitchell, South Dakota. His ballot is cast in 
support of the measures and candidates of the democratic party, of 
which he is a stanch adherent. He is energetic, progressive and public-
spirited and is justly accounted a valuable citizen of Plankinton.