Charles E. McEachron Biography


	This biography appears on pages 951-952 in "History of Dakota 
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				CHARLES E. McEACHRON. 

	Charles E. McEachron, of Hill City, Pennington county, has won 
unusual success in merchandising and has one of the largest general 
stores in his part of the state. A native of Oswego county, New York, 
his birth occurred on the 15th of February, 1856, and his parents were 
Peter and Fanny (Colvert) McEachron, natives of Washington county, New 
York, and of Cayuga county, that state, respectively. They were 
lifelong residents of the Empire state and the father was a successful 
farmer. 

	Charles E. McEachron, who is the second in a family of four 
children, received his education in the district schools in the 
neighborhood of his boyhood home. He remained upon the homestead and 
gave his parents the benefit of his labor until he was twenty-four 
years of age and then started out upon his independent business career, 
removing to the Black Hills, this state. In 1880 he located at Custer, 
Custer county, where he was employed in a sawmill for a time, after 
which he went to the vicinity of Rockerville, where he was employed for 
about two years. He then returned to the state of New York and remained 
there for about a year, after which he again came west, settling at 
Newell, Iowa. After spending the winter there he went to Anaconda, 
Montana, where he was employed in a smelting works for about a year. He 
then again returned to the Empire state and conducted a hotel and also 
a livery barn in Fair Haven for a year. On disposing of those interests 
he returned to the Black Hills and located at Hermosa, Custer county, 
where he operated a hotel for a year. He then removed to Hill City and 
had charge of the headquarters of the Harney Peak Tin Company for a 
year. At the end of that time he built his present store building and 
engaged in the general mercantile business in connection with D. B. 
Ingram. That partnership was maintained with mutual pleasure and profit 
for seven or eight years, at the end of which time Mr. McEachron became 
sole owner of the business, which he has since conducted. He carries a 
complete line of general merchandise, including hardware and men's 
furnishings, and is also a funeral director. His business occupies six 
thousand, two hundred and forty feet of floor space in the store 
building proper and also a wareroom twenty by forty feet in dimensions 
Mr. McEachron carries one of the largest stocks in Pennington county 
and his building, which has two stories and basement has a frontage of 
one hundred and four feet on the principal street of the city. The post 
office is situated in a part of the building not occupied by the store 
and the structure is one of the best business properties in Hill City. 
Mr. McEachron also owns a hardware and implement business in Sundance, 
Wyoming, and is now erecting there a two-story building, fifty by one 
hundred feet in dimensions. He is president of the Hill City Bank and 
is interested financially in the Keystone Town Site Company. His 
activities also extend to other fields, as he has invested in a number 
of mining properties in his vicinity, owns residence property in Hill 
City and is engaged in the stock business as well. 

	Mr. McEachron was married in 1884 to Miss Alice Cartwright, who 
was born in Port Byron, New York, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Moses 
Cartwright, both likewise natives of that state. They continued to 
reside there until they retired from active life and then made their 
home with Mr. and Mrs. McEachron, both dying in Hill City. Mr. and Mrs. 
McEachron have two children: Doris, who attended the South Dakota State 
Normal School at Spearfish; and Newell E., who is in school. 

	Mr. McEachron is a republican and is serving his third term as 
mayor of Hill City, his continuance in that office being the best proof 
of his fitness for the place. For two years he was a member of the 
board of education, but then resigned. In building up his own business 
Mr. McEachron has also contributed to the commercial expansion of Hill 
City and he is justly held in high esteem because of his ability, sound 
judgment and enterprise.