Ward L. McCafferty Biography


	This biography appears on pages 600-601 in "History of Dakota 
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				WARD L. McCAFFERTY. 

	Ward L. McCafferty, postmaster at Roscoe and the editor of the 
Reveille published at that place, was born in McComb county, Michigan, 
on the 27th of January, 1881. His parents, Van and Phoebe (Dewey) 
McCafferty, were also natives of that state and the mother there passed 
away in the year 1885, after which the father married again and in 1886 
removed to Edmunds county, South Dakota, where he settled upon a farm. 
He gave considerable time to the cultivation of his land there but 
afterward went to Canada, where he is now living. By his first marriage 
he had two children: Arthur J., now in Mobridge, South Dakota; and Ward 
L., of this review. By the father,s second marriage there were born 
four children, all of whom yet survive. 

	Ward L. McCafferty was but four years of age at the time of his 
mother's death. When a young man of nineteen years he left home and 
started out to earn his living, working for the first year as a common 
laborer. He was then appointed to the position of deputy county 
treasurer of Edmunds county, in which capacity he served for four 
years, at the end of which time he was made bookkeeper in the Beebe 
Bank at Ipswich, where he continued for a year. Removing to Roscoe, he 
was appointed cashier in the bank at that place and after five years 
spent in that capacity he turned his attention to the real-estate 
business, forming a partnership with M. J. Lightner, of Roscoe. They 
organized a company of which he is still the secretary and treasurer. 
In 1913 Mr. McCafferty purchased the Roscoe Reveille, a newspaper, of 
which he is now the editor. He has made it a popular journal, well 
patronized in both its circulation and advertising departments. In 
February, 1914, he was appointed postmaster of Roscoe and is now 
acceptably filling that position. He has also occupied other political 
offices, having served as treasurer of his town for ten years, being 
elected to the position on the democratic ticket.  

	In 1901 Mr. McCafferty was united in marriage to Miss Emma 
Engdahl, a native of Sweden, who was brought to America when but six 
years of age by her parents, John and Emma Engdahl, who are now 
residents of Salem, Oregon. To Mr. and Mrs. McCafferty have been born 
four children: Arden L., Edmond W., Phoebe and Vivian. 

	The parents are members of the Baptist church and are interested 
in the moral progress of the community. Mr. McCafferty is also a member 
of Devotion Lodge, No. 76, A. F. &; A. M., at Ipswich; Lodge No. 1046, 
B. P. O. E., at Aberdeen; Lodge No. 227, I. O. O. E., at Roscoe. He 
exemplifies in his life the beneficent purposes of these organizations, 
which have as their basic principles a recognition of the brotherhood 
of mankind. Mr. McCafferty has steadily worked his way upward and the 
steps in his orderly progression are easily discernible, showing that 
his advancement has been won through earnest purpose, capability and 
fidelity to duty.