John W. Lackey Biography


	This biography appears on page 432 in "History of Dakota 
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				JOHN W. LACKEY. 

	John W. Lackey, who devotes his attention to the pursuits of 
general farming and stock raising with excellent success, is the owner 
of a fine farm of two hundred and ten acres on section 12, Wayne 
township, Minnehaha county. His birth occurred in Carlisle, Cumberland 
county, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of May, 1867, his parents being John 
and Margaret Lackey, both of whom are deceased. The father followed 
farming throughout his active business career. 

	John W. Lackey attended the common schools of his native state in 
the acquirement of an education and when not busy with his textbooks 
assisted his father in the work of the home farm, also continuing his 
labors thereon when he had completed his studies. At the age of 
eighteen he left the parental roof and made his way to Battle Creek, 
Iowa, where he was employed as a farm hand by a brother for two years. 
When twenty years of age he purchased two horses and a cultivator and 
started out as an agriculturist on his own account, operating a rented 
farm in Iowa for twelve years. The year 1900 witnessed his arrival in 
South Dakota. He had previously purchased a quarter section of land in 
Nebraska but disposed of this property and bought two hundred and ten 
acres on section 12, Wayne township, Minnehaha county, which he has 
cultivated continuously and successfully since. He makes a specialty of 
full blooded cattle, having sixty head at the present time, and has 
raised most of the stock on his farm. His horses are of excellent breed 
and he also feeds one hundred and fifty head of hogs annually. The 
breeding of fancy stock affords him recreation as well as profit. His 
attractive farm is modernly equipped in every particular and in its 
operation he utilizes the latest and most effective methods. He has won 
a gratifying degree of prosperity during the period of his residence in 
this state and may be numbered among its representative and progressive 
citizens. 

	On the 24th of November, 1897, Mr. Lackey was united in marriage 
to Miss Anna Wirth, a daughter of Jacob Wirth and a lady of German 
extraction. They have a son, Harold, who is eleven years of age. Mr. 
Lackey gives his political allegiance to the republican party and has 
ably served as clerk of the school board for a period of ten years. His 
religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. The course which he 
has followed throughout the period of his residence in Minnehaha county 
and South Dakota commends him to the confidence and goodwill of all and 
he has an extensive and representative circle of friends.