Edward Hildebrant Biography


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				EDWARD HILDEBRANT. 

	Edward Hildebrant owns a valuable farm of three hundred and 
eighty-five acres on section 30, Oak Gulch township, Day county, but 
resides in Conde, Spink county. He has been a resident of South Dakota 
since a young man in his teens and in the intervening thirty years has 
been instrumental in advancing the agricultural development of his 
locality. He was born on the 15th of December, 1866, in Ohio Station, 
Illinois, and is a son of Emanuel and Nancy (Johnson) Hildebrant. The 
father was a pioneer farmer of the Prairie state but came to South 
Dakota in 1882. He died in 1900, at the age of seventy-six years, and 
was buried in the Conde cemetery. His widow survives him and makes her 
home in Conde. They had ten children, namely: Elizabeth, who married 
Andrew Olson and died in 1913, her remains being interred in a cemetery 
at Chandler; Eugene, a resident of Tiskilwa, Illinois; Emma, the wife 
of Samuel Bilby, of Newark, New Jersey; Julia, who married David Ott, 
or New Boston, Illinois; Henry, who makes his home in Conde, this 
state; Anna, the wife of Tompsey Price, residing in Aberdeen; Edward, 
the subject of this review; Jennie, who married Millard Clark and died 
in 1902, interment being made in Conde; Daisy, the wife of Charles 
Smith, an implement dealer of Grand Forks, North Dakota; and Howard, 
residing on a farm near Conde. 

	Edward Hildebrant received his education in the public schools of 
Illinois and laid aside his textbooks when seventeen years of age. He 
remained at home, assisting his father in the work of the farm until he 
was twenty-two years old. He then rented land until 1890, when he was 
able to purchase one hundred and sixty acres, and concentrated his 
energies upon the cultivation of his farm. In 1908 he purchased two 
hundred and twenty-five acres additional, making in all three hundred 
and eighty-five acres to which he holds title. He engages in mixed 
farming and finds the raising of both grain and stock yields him larger 
returns than the raising of one alone. He is an enterprising 
agriculturist and does everything that is to be done at the proper 
time, so that results are achieved with a less expenditure of time and 
energy. 

	Mr. Hildebrant was married, near Conde, in April, 1888, to Miss 
Anna Hynes, a daughter of John and Kate (Loffus) Hynes. Her father was 
a pioneer farmer who died in 1909 and was buried in Conde. Her mother 
survives and makes her home in that town. Ml. and Mrs. Hildebrant have 
five children: Benjamin, who assists his father in the farm work; Earl, 
who manages a restaurant in Conde owned by his father and married Elma 
Wattier, by whom he has two children, Earl and Everett; Blanch, at 
home; Edda, who is attending high school; and Phyllis, a maiden of six 
years. 

	Mr. Hildebrant is a democrat and takes a citizen's interest in 
all matters of public concern. He has a number of business interests 
aside from his farm and restaurant, which have been previously 
mentioned, owning considerable business property in Conde. He has built 
his own comfortable residence and has taken great pains to make it one 
of the well arranged and commodious homes of the locality. His success 
has not been due to the aid of influential friends but is to be 
attributed entirely to his own untiring industry and sound business 
judgment. His prosperity has been gained by such honorable methods that 
all who know him respect him and are glad of his success.