Walter C. Leyse Biography


	This biography appears on page 849 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				WALTER C. LEYSE. 

	Walter C. Leyse, now in the third term of his able service as 
city auditor of Sioux Falls, was born in Brookings, South Dakota, 
October 7, 1888, and is a son of Christian G. and Eliza E. (Erickson) 
Leyse. His paternal grandfather, a native of Norway, founded the family 
in America, dying in this country. 

	Walter C. Leyse acquired his education in Sioux Falls, whither 
his parents had moved in 1892. He was graduated from the Sioux Falls 
high school in 1907 and immediately afterward went to Colorado, where 
he entered the employ of the Cripple Creek & Sioux Falls Gold Mining 
Company at Cripple Creek. At the end of two years he returned to Sioux 
Falls and gave his attention to the life insurance business, in which 
he met with gratifying success. After two years he was appointed to the 
position of city auditor of Sioux Falls, and he has served by 
reappointment since that time, his work having met with the approval of 
all concerned. 

	Mr. Leyse belongs to the Episcopal church and gives his political 
allegiance to the republican party. For eighteen months he served as a 
private in Company B, Fourth Regiment, South Dakota State Guard. In his 
present office he has proven capable, farsighted and progressive and he 
will undoubtedly be carried forward into still more important relations 
with official life in the community.