Henry A. Gehm Biography


	This biography appears on page 173 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				HENRY A. GEHM. 

	As cashier and director of the State Bank of Manchester, Henry A. 
Gehm is in a position to influence to a considerable extent the 
commercial and financial prosperity of Manchester and vicinity. He is 
one of the younger business men of the town, his birth having occurred 
on the 21st of October, 1887. His parents were John and Lucy Gehm, and 
the father was one of the first to take up land in Kingsbury county, 
preempting a quarter of section 30, township 110, range 66. He also 
entered a desert claim and for many years he operated his farm, but in 
1914 retired from active life and is now residing at De Smet. 

	Henry A. Gehm attended the public schools and after completing 
the course there offered entered a business college at Fremont, 
Nebraska. After completing his preparation for a business life he 
entered the De Smet National Bank as bookkeeper and remained in that 
capacity for two and half years. He was then made cashier of the State 
Bank of Manchester, of which his father is president, and his brother, 
Robert Gehm, vice president. The executive officers are well fitted for 
their work and have instituted and maintained a policy of conservatism 
tempered with progressiveness that neither endangers the funds on 
deposit through ill advised investment nor retards the normal progress 
of Manchester and its vicinity by undue timidity. Henry A Gehm, the 
cashier of the bank, has large voice in its management, has developed 
financial acumen beyond his years. and has also acquired a detailed 
knowledge of the routine of banking practice. 

	Mr. Gehm was married December 22, 1909, to Miss Florence Hennen, 
a daughter of Jerry Hennen, and to their union have been born a son and 
daughter, Edna and Kenneth. Mr. Gehm is a protestant, and in politics 
is identified with the progressive party. He is also a Mason and his 
life is an embodiment of the spirit of the fraternity. He has the 
greatest faith in the future of South Dakota and does all within his 
power to hasten the healthy development of the state along all lines, 
and is known to his fellow citizens as one who is not bound by 
tradition, but, on the contrary, is progressive and willing to further 
new plans and movements that promise to better conditions.