Carl E. Lange Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1127-1128 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				CARL E. LANGE.  

	Although Carl E. Lange, the efficient cashier of the First State 
Bank of Murdo, is a young man, he has had wide experience in banking 
and is recognized as one of the able financiers of Lyman county. A 
native of Germany, his birth occurred on the 4th of August, 1884, and 
he is a son of Bernhardt and Elsie (Eiffert) Lange. On emigrating to 
America in 1891 the family made their way to Westside, Iowa, where they 
remained until 1905, in which year they removed to South Dakota and 
homesteaded in Lyman county. The parents are now residing on a ranch 
near Murdo.  

	Carl E. Lange, who is the second in order of birth in a family of 
ten children, attended the high school at Westside, Iowa, being a 
member of the class of 1900. When seventeen years old he became 
connected with a bank at McLean, Nebraska, and after removing to South 
Dakota was for a time with the First National Bank at Wessington 
Springs. In 1905 he went to Dazey, North Dakota, where he organized a 
bank, and he also established a bank at Rogers, that state, of which he 
served as cashier for two years. At the end of that time he homesteaded 
land in North Dakota and remained on his claim for two years, after 
which he became assistant cashier of the American National Bank of 
Valley City, North Dakota, remaining in that capacity for a year and a 
half. He next organized the Gray City Bank of Gray City, North Dakota, 
of which he was cashier, but in 1900 sold his interest in that 
institution and removed to Murdo, South Dakota, to accept the 
cashiership of the First State Bank of Murdo. He has since held that 
position and has wisely directed the affairs of the institution, which 
has the entire confidence of the general public. He is the principal 
stockholder in the bank and also owns one thousand acres of land, which 
he devotes to stock-raising, breeding Hereford cattle.  

	Mr. Lange was married on the 6th of September, 1911, to Miss Edna 
Toullinger, a daughter of James and Sarah (Shell) Toullinger, of 
Maryville, Missouri. His religious faith is that of the Evangelical 
church and fraternally he is a Mason, which associations indicate the 
rules which govern his conduct. The republican party finds in him a 
stanch supporter and he is now serving as mayor of Murdo, giving the 
town a businesslike administration. He finds needed recreation in 
various sports and is locally well known as an amateur baseball player. 
The good roads movement has his hearty endorsement and he is always 
willing to aid in any way possible in the advancement and development 
of his county and state. He is justly held in high esteem and 
personally he is popular.