Frank W. Halbkat Biography


	This biography appears on pages 988-989 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				FRANK W. HALBKAT. 

	Modern business enterprise finds expression in the activity of 
Frank W. Halbkat, a druggist of Webster. He was born in Hamilton, 
Minnesota, November 15, 1875, a son of John C. and Helen (Tessin) 
Halbkat, both of whom are still living. The paternal grandfather, Fred 
Halbkat, was a native of Germany, and after living for some years in 
the United States returned to that country, where his remaining days 
were passed. 

	John C. Halbkat, the father of our subject, was born in New York 
in 1850. The mother's birth occurred in Germany in the same year and 
they are now residents of Spring Valley, Minnesota, where they were 
married in 1869. Mrs. Halbkat was a young lady of seventeen years when 
she crossed the Atlantic and Mr. Halbkat was a child of but five years 
when he accompanied his parents to Minnesota, the family home being 
established on a farm near Brown Valley, that state. He acquired his 
education in the common schools and took up the occupation of farming, 
which he followed until 1880, when he removed to Spring Valley and 
embarked in merchandising, in which business he has won a gratifying 
measure of success. His religious belief is that of the Methodist 
Episcopal church and his fraternal relations connect him with the 
Masons, the Odd Fellows and other fraternal organizations. In politics 
he is an earnest republican. He has ever been active in support of the 
principles in which he believes. To him and his wife have been born 
five children: Charles F., who is engaged in the jewelry business at 
Watertown, South Dakota; Emma, the wife of Calvin Young, of Mapleton, 
Minnesota; Frank W.; Alice, the wife of John Hoffman, a real-estate 
dealer and banker of Spring Valley, Minnesota; and John H., who is 
associated with his father in general merchandising. 

	After attending the high school at Spring Valley, from which he 
was graduated with the chess of 1892, Frank W. Halbkat entered the 
Northwestern University at Chicago, Illinois, and completed a course in 
pharmacy in 1895. He afterward engaged in clerking until 1903 and on 
the 1st of April of that year removed to Webster, where he bought out 
the business of the Ross Drug Company and has since conducted the 
store. He now has a well appointed establishment, carrying a large and 
carefully selected line of drugs and druggists, sundries, while his 
reasonable prices and courteous treatment of his patrons have secured 
to him a growing and substantial trade. 

	In November, 1905, Mr. Halbkat wedded Miss Ethel M. Walker, a 
native of Nebraska and a daughter of Franklin Walker, who was one of 
the early settlers of Nebraska and afterward became a pioneer resident 
of South Dakota. He is now living retired at Clark, this state. Mr. and 
Mrs. Halbkat have two children, John F., and Frederick W., aged 
respectively seven and two years. 

	In the fall of 1913 Mr. Halbkat was appointed to the state board 
of pharmacy by Governor Frank M. Byrne and in October of the present 
year, 1915, became president of the state board of pharmacy.