John Egan Biography


	This biography appears on pages 398-401 in "History of Dakota 
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				JOHN EGAN. 

	John Egan, who has been actively and successfully identified with 
agricultural interests in South Dakota throughout his entire business 
career, is now the owner of a valuable farm of three hundred and twenty 
acres comprising the south half of section 32, Taopi township, 
Minnehaha county. His birth occurred in Wisconsin on the 15th of April, 
1869, his parents being Thomas and Mary Egan, who took up a homestead 
and also a timber claim in this state in 1876. The country w-as still 
comparatively wild and but sparsely settled, and they underwent all the 
hardships and dangers of the pioneers, experiencing the grasshopper: 
plague and other trials of early times. Both Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Egan 
are deceased. 

	John Egan, who was a little lad of seven years when he came to 
South Dakota with his parents, attended the country schools of this 
state in the acquirement of an education and subsequently assisted his 
father in the work of the home farm. As above stated, he has devoted 
his attention to agricultural pursuits here throughout his entire 
business career and is now the owner of a farm comprising three hundred 
and twenty acres on section 32, Taopi township, Minnehaha county. His 
implements are modern and he has brought his fields to a high state of 
cultivation and improvement by progressive methods of agriculture. He 
keeps seventy-five head of cattle, most of which are full blooded 
shorthorns, one hundred head of Duroc hogs and is a breeder of 
Percheron horses, owning nine registered full blooded Percherons at the 
present time. In both his farming and live-stock interests he has won 
merited success. He may justly lay claim to the proud American title of 
a self-made man, for his prosperity is attributable entirely to his own 
well directed efforts and able management. 

	On the 29th of October, 1891, Mr. Egan was united in marriage to 
Miss Aleelie Gage, her father being L. S. Gage, an early pioneer of 
this state, who is now living retired at Hartford, Minnehaha county. 
They have the following children: Eleanor and Luther, both of whom 
follow the profession of teaching; and Clive, Clifford, Joyce May and 
Elsworth, all of whom are attending school. 

	In his political views Mr. Egan is a stanch republican, loyally 
supporting the men and measures of that party. He has acted in the 
capacity of school officer and also held the position of road 
supervisor for one year. Anything pertaining to the growth and 
development of his community and state is of interest to him, and he 
does all in his power to promote the general welfare. His religious 
faith is that of the Baptist church, while fraternally he is identified 
with the Woodmen, the Modern Brotherhood of America and the Masons. 
Motoring affords him much pleasure and recreation. He is well regarded 
in the community where he has spent the greater part of his life and 
where the comrades of his boyhood are the friends of his manhood.