Frederic W. Sellers Biography


	This biography appears on pages 814, 817 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				FREDERIC W. SELLERS. 

	Frederic W. Sellers, who is actively engaged in the practice of 
law in Custer, was born in Cherokee, Iowa, on the 24th of June, 1884, a 
son of Frederic L. and Harriet M. (Carpenter) Sellers, natives 
respectively of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and Maquoketa, Iowa. The 
father was in the lumber business in Wisconsin until 1877, when he 
removed to Iowa and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, in 
which he engaged until his death in 1896. His widow survives and makes 
her home with our subject, who is the second in a family of three 
children. Lewis C., the eldest, died at Billings, Montana, in February, 
1910, and the youngest, George K., is secretary to Governor Byrne and 
is living in Pierre. 

	Frederic W. Sellers attended the public schools of Cherokee, 
Iowa, and after completing his preparatory course entered the Liberal 
Arts College of Iowa State University and was graduated therefrom in 
1905. He then began his legal study and received his professional 
degree from the State University of Iowa in 1907. He worked his way 
through college during the entire six years, and industry has always 
been one of his marked characteristics. When but fourteen years of age 
he began working during his vacations and, although he was but 
seventeen when he entered the university, he succeeded in earning 
enough to pay his expenses. Upon graduating from law school he began 
the practice of his profession at Cherokee, Iowa, where he remained for 
two and a half years. In the spring of 1910 he arrived in Custer, South 
Dakota, and in the five years that have since passed he has built up a 
clientage that represents some of the important interests of Custer 
county, and his reputation for integrity and ability in successfully 
solving involved legal problems is enviable. For four years, ending 
with December, 1914, he served as states attorney and proved a 
competent and faithful official. While living in Cherokee county he was 
for two years county attorney. 

	Mr. Sellers is a republican and is loyal in his support of the 
platform and candidates of that party. His religious faith is in 
accordance with the teachings of the Congregational church, of which he 
is a member. He is also identified with the Masonic blue lodge and the 
knights of Pythias, in which he is outgoing chancellor commander. Mr. 
Sellers has already accomplished much and his youth, ability and energy 
give promise of greater achievement in the years to come.