Samuel H. Hotchkiss Biography


	This biography appears on pages 605 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				SAMUEL H. HOTCHKISS. 

	Samuel H. Hotchkiss, engaged in general farming on section 14, 
Winfred township, Lake county, was born in Olmsted county, Minnesota, 
July 24, 1875, a son of Robert B. and Polly F. (Winslow) Hotchkiss. It 
was in the year 1901 that the family came to South Dakota, settling at 
Madison, where the father devoted his attention to general farming. He 
purchased five hundred and sixty acres of land on sections 13 and 14, 
Winfred township, Lake county, and was thereafter busily engaged in 
further developing and improving his place until his life's labors were 
ended by death on the 17th of November, 1903. His widow survives and is 
now seventy-five years of age. 

	Samuel H. Hotchkiss is a product of the west and possesses the 
enterprising spirit which has been the dominant factor in the 
upbuilding of this section of the country. His boyhood and youth were 
passed in Minnesota and his education was acquired in its public 
schools. He was twenty-six years of age when the family came to South 
Dakota, after which he was employed in various ways until 1911, when he 
took up his abode upon his present farm on section 14, Winfred 
township, and is now devoting his attention to the work of tilling the 
soil. He has been very successful and annually gathers rich harvests as 
compensation for the care and labor which he bestows upon the fields. 
He has the latest improved machinery upon his place and his land is 
divided into fields of convenient size by well kept fences. Upon his 
farm he has thirty head of cattle and twenty-one fine horses, and the 
equipment of his farm in every particular is thoroughly modern and 
commendable. 

	On the 22d of June, 1910, Mr. Hotchkiss was united in marriage to 
Miss Leona E. Northrup, a daughter of George Northrup. They are 
Methodists in religious faith and are interested in all that pertains 
to the moral development and the upbuihding of the community. In 
politics Mr. Hotchkiss is a republican but has never sought the honors 
or emoluments of public office as a return for party fealty. 
Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
and with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is among that class of South 
Dakota's citizens who favor good roads and have given to the state its 
splendid highways