George S. Rix Biography


	This biography appears on pages 984, 987 in "History of Dakota 
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				GEORGE S. RIX. 

	George S. Rix has been engaged in the practice of law in Milbank 
since 1893 and occupies a position in the front rank of the attorneys 
of Grant county. He is serving his fourth term as states attorney, has 
been city attorney for many years and was for one term county judge. In 
all of his official capacities he has manifested a single-minded 
devotion to the public good. 

	His birth occurred in Spring Valley, Minnesota, on the 26th of 
January, 1869, and he is a son of Porter N. and Emma (Winters) Rix. His 
grandfather, John Rix, was born in Callada but became a resident of 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the mercantile business. 
Subsequently he removed to Washington county, Wisconsin, and there 
gained a modest fortune by trading in land. The maternal grandfather of 
our subject, John Winters, was born in England but as a young man 
emigrated to the United States and located in Milwaukee, where he 
passed away. 

	Porter N. Rix was born in Stanstead, Canada, in 1840 and removed 
to Minnesota when that state was still a pioneer region. For a number 
of years he concentrated his attention largely upon general farming and 
later devoted his energies mostly to buying and selling horses and 
cattle, which proved a very profitable occupation. He was a democrat in 
polities and fraternally was identified with the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows. His demise occurred September 15, 1904. He was married in 
Preston, Minnesota, in 1865, to Miss Emma Winters, who was born in 
Southampton, England, in 1840. She passed away in the faith of the 
Protestant Episcopal church. To their union were born two children: 
George S.; and B. C., who conducts a pool and billiard hall in Milbank. 

	George S. Rix was graduated from the high school of Spring 
Valley, Minnesota, in 1889 and subsequently entered the law school of 
the University of Wisconsin at Madison, from which he received his 
professional degree in 1891. Two years later he located for practice in 
Milbank, where he has since remained. As the years have passed his 
clientage has grown in extent and importance and he has appeared as 
counsel on one side or the other in a great deal of the important 
litigation tried in the courts of his district. For many years he has 
been city attorney, is now serving his fourth term as states attorney 
and for one term sat upon the county bench 

	Mr. Rix was married on Christmas Day, 1895, to Maud C. Nash, a 
daughter of L. H. Nash, who is a resident of Spring Valley, Minnesota. 
For many years he followed agricultural pursuits but is now living 
retired. To this union has been born one child, Doris C., who graduated 
from the local high school with the class of 1915. 

	Mr. Rix is a stalwart republican and his advice is often sought 
in local party councils. His religious faith is that of the 
Congregational church, and fraternally he belongs to the subordinate 
lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in-which he has filled 
all of the chairs, and to Watertown Lodge, No. 838, B. P. O. E. He has 
a keen and well trained mind and is thoroughly versed in the law but 
his success is not due to those qualifications alone but also in part 
to his enviable reputation for integrity and fair dealing. During the 
twenty-two years that he has resided in Milbank he has manifested a 
commendable interest in the public welfare and has gained a high place 
in the estimation of his fellow citizens.