Moses Fantle Biography


	This biography appears on pages 147-148 in "History of Dakota 
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				MOSES FANTLE. 

	Few men are more prominent or more widely known in the 
enterprising city of Yankton than Moses Fantle who, as a member of the 
firm of Fantle Brothers, has been an important factor in business 
circles and his prosperity is well deserved. Mr. Fantle was born in Ann 
Arbor, Michigan, March 8, 1874, a son of Charles and Regina (Gregor) 
Fantle, both of whom were natives of Austria. The father came as a lad 
to the United States and making his way to Ann Arbor, Michigan, there 
made his home with relatives, while the mother was likewise brought to 
this country in her childhood days. The father grew to manhood in Ann 
Arbor and in early life engaged in merchandising, conducting an 
establishment of that character there for thirty-five years. In 1884 
the family removed to St. Paul and in that city the father engaged in 
business with his two sons, his death occurring there in 1908, when he 
had reached the ripe old age of seventy-nine years. The mother still 
survives, making her home in St. Paul. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Fantle are: Charles and Samuel, who are engaged in 
merchandising in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and William and Moses, 
engaged in a similar enterprise in Yankton. 

	Moses Fantle was a little lad of ten years at the time the family 
removed from Ann Arbor to St. Paul, so that his education was mainly 
acquired in the public schools of the latter city, and in the high 
school, from which he was graduated in 1893. Immediately thereafter he 
came to Yankton to engage in the mercantile business with his brother 
William and has since been connected with this enterprise, the brothers 
doing business under the firm style of Fantle Brothers. As the years 
have passed the business has grown and today they occupy a building 
three stories in height, with basement, and this is considered one of 
the best mercantile establishments in the state of South Dakota. The 
brothers have made a deep study of the needs and demands of the public. 
They carry a large and carefully selected line of goods, which they 
sell at right prices, and this, in connection with their just treatment 
of patrons, constitutes the basis of their success. 

	In addition to his other interests Mr. Fantle is connected with 
banking, being a director in the Dakota National Bank. 

	On the 17th of November, 1909, Mr. Fantle was united in marriage 
to Miss Carrie S. Freud, a daughter of Leopold and Hannah (Sittig) 
Freud, of Detroit, Michigan, in which city the father is a capitalist 
and real-estate operator, and who for many years had important mining 
interests in northern Michigan. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Fantle has 
been blessed with an interesting little daughter, Regine. 

	Mr. Fantle gives his political support to the republican party. 
He is prominent in Masonic circles, having attained the thirty-second 
degree in that order and he also belongs to the Benevolent Protective 
Order of Elks. He likewise holds membership relations with the Noon Day 
and the Commercial Clubs. He seeks rest and recreation from business 
cares in out door sports. He has ever been a busy man and has been 
largely instrumental in building up one of the largest mercantile 
establishments in the state which stands as a tribute to the business 
genius of two of Yankton's youngest merchants.