J. A. Sauer Biography


	This biography appears on page 779 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				J. A. SAUER.  

	J. A. Sauer has for the past three decades been engaged in 
business as. a wholesale cigar manufacturer of Huron and in this 
connection has won a gratifying and well merited measure of prosperity. 
His birth occurred in Onalaska, Wisconsin, on the 31st of August, 1862, 
his parents being Charles A. and Anna Sauer, who took up their abode in 
Huron, South Dakota, in April, 1880. Here the father successfully 
conducted a general store until within a few years of his demise, which 
occurred on the 4th of November, 1911.  

	J. A. Sauer attended the public schools in the acquirement of an 
education and when fifteen years of age began learning the trade of 
cigar making at La Crosse, Wisconsin, afterward working at that 
occupation in Minnesota. When a youth of about eighteen he removed with 
his parents to Huron, this state, and in 1883 he embarked in business 
as a wholesale cigar manufacturer, in which he has since remained, 
selling his goods throughout the states of Iowa, North Dakota, South 
Dakota and Minnesota. During the past twenty years he has manufactured 
the Commandery, a ten-cent cigar, and the Fair City and South Dakota 
Star, which sell for five cents. He now furnishes employment to twenty 
or more people and has had as many as forty-six in his factory. Mr. 
Sauer is also a stockholder in the James Valley Bank and has long been 
numbered among the representative and substantial business men of his 
city.  

	In 1887 Mr. Sauer was united in marriage to Miss Margaret E. 
Pierce, of Woonsocket, South Dakota, who is a native of Iowa. They have 
two children: Gretchen, who is a teacher of vocal music; and John P.  

	Mr. Sauer gives his political allegiance to the democracy and has 
served as a member of the city council for five years. He belongs to 
the United Commercial Travelers and is also identified with the Knights 
of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His nature is 
social and his disposition cordial and, while he has at all times 
commanded the respect and admiration of his business associates, he has 
also enjoyed the warm friendship of those who have come within the 
closer circle of his acquaintance.