Frank Gregory Homan Biography


	This biography appears on pages 948, 951 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				FRANK GREGORY HOMAN. 

	Frank Gregory Homan is a scientific agriculturist who has won 
notable success in the production of potatoes upon the old Homan 
homestead. He now makes his home on a farm six miles south of Sioux 
Falls, in which city he was born on the 11th of September, 1885. His 
father, Nicholas Homan, was one of the prominent pioneers of this 
state. When a young man he came from Germany, his native country, to 
the new world and settled in South Dakota, near Sioux Falls, becoming 
one of the progressive and wealthy farmers of Lincoln county. He was 
born at Luxemburg, Germany, April 11, 1841, and had attained the 
psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten when he passed 
away in Sioux Falls in 1911. 

	Frank Gregory Homan was educated in the "rammer and high schools 
of Sioux Falls and after completing his studies worked for a time in 
his brother's store in that city. On attaining his majority he took up 
a homestead in what was then Custer but is now O'Fallon county and 
still owns that property. Returning to Sioux Falls, he engaged in 
farming on rented land and afterward took charge of his father's farm, 
still operating the original homestead, but now lives south of the city 
as previously stated. He specializes in potato growing and has 
demonstrated that South Dakota lands are well adapted to successful 
potato culture, for his crop amounted to four thousand bushels in 1913. 
His success is in a great measure due to the feet that he has made a 
scientific study of the best methods of cultivating the soil and also 
of the value of fertilizers and his efforts therefore produce 
substantial results. His business affairs are most carefully managed 
and the years chronicle his growing success. 

	Mr. Homan holds membership in the Catholic church and also with 
the Knights of Columbus. In politics he supports the democratic party 
where national issues are involved but casts an independent local 
ballot, considering only the capability of the candidate and the needs 
of the position. He is yet comparatively a young man but has achieved 
success which many a one of twice his years might well envy. As time 
has gone on, he has come into a more correct knowledge of the 
agricultural opportunities and possibilities of his section of the 
state and he stands today among the foremost representatives of potato 
culture, gaining well merited success as the years go on.