Allen Hildahl Biography


	This biography appears on page 817 in "History of Dakota 
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				ALLEN HILDAHL. 

	Allen Hildahl is a factor in financial circles of Lyons, South 
Dakota, as cashier of the Farmers State Bank, which position he has 
ably filled for the past six years. His birth occurred in Dickinson 
county, Iowa, on the 23d of November, 1871, his parents being Knudt and 
Sigri Hildahl, who came to this state and preempted land in 1876. They 
have remained on the old home farm throughout the intervening thirty-
nine years and are well and favorably known in the community. They have 
three living children: Allen; Ole, who resides on the home farm; and 
Anna, who is teaching in Minnehaha county. 

	Allen Hildahl supplemented his early education, obtained in the 
public schools, by a course of study in the Lutheran Normal School of 
Sioux Falls and in the Madison State Normal School. Subsequently he 
followed the profession of teaching for eleven years and on the 
expiration of that period entered the Farmers State Bank of Lyons as 
cashier, in which capacity he has continued during the past seven 
years. He is also a stockholder of the institution and has proven 
himself a highly competent, courteous and obliging official. 

	In politics Mr. Hildahl is a republican and for some years has 
held the office of town clerk. He is widely recognized as a progressive 
and public-spirited citizen who takes a deep and helpful interest in 
all matters pertaining to the general welfare and tending to advance 
the interests of his state. In religious faith he is a Lutheran. His 
many sterling traits have been the means of winning for him the respect 
and regard of all with whom he has come in contact, and therefore the 
circle of his friends is almost coextensive with the circle of his 
acquaintances.