William Sibson Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1017-1018 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				WILLIAM SIBSON.  

	William Sibson is actively and successfully engaged in business 
as a real-estate broker of Sioux Falls, dealing extensively in Texas 
land. His birth occurred in Allegany county, Maryland, on the 25th of 
March, 1870, his parents being Richard and Elizabeth (Robertson) 
Sibson, the former born in Gins Cumberland, White Haven, England, May 
31, 1840, and the hatter at Rose Hall, near Glasgow, Scotland, November 
30, 1840. In 1872 they took up their abode near Des Moines, in Polk 
county, Iowa, and eight years later removed to Audubon county, Iowa, 
where our subject remained on the home farm until he had attained his 
majority. He then left the parental roof and for one year attended 
school at Highland Park, Des Moines, Iowa, while subsequently he worked 
for a short time in a Des Moines store. On the 12th of June, 1893, in 
association with his older brother, W. W. Sibson, he purchased the 
stock and building of the Farmers' Alliance store. The stock was valued 
at five thousand dollars and this they later increased to the value of 
twenty thousand dollars, also building a business block at a cost of 
ten thousand dollars. They likewise carried in addition to this a 
branch stock at Viola Center and met with well merited success in their 
undertakings. After disposing of their mercantile interests the two 
brothers were engaged in the banking business for five years. William 
Sibson was married in 1894 and resided with his wife at Dedham, Iowa, 
for fifteen years, on the expiration of which period, in 1909, he 
removed with his family to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, purchasing 
property at No. 721 South Duluth avenue, where he has since made his 
home. He is now engaged in business as a real-estate broker, dealing 
extensively in Texas land as president of the Western Land Security 
Company, which in February, 1902, was incorporated with a capital stock 
of one hundred thousand dollars. They act as general agents for the La 
Feria Land Company, handling Texas irrigated farm lands, and also deal 
in South Dakota farm and grazing lands. 

	On the 25th of December, 1894, Mr. Sibson was united in marriage 
to Miss Edith Fenton, who lived with her parents in Dedham, Iowa. She 
was born at Viola Center, lowa, on the 17th of October, 1877, a 
daughter of Philo Coville and Melissa Cynthia (Bruce) Fenton, who were 
married in Camden, New York, December 26, 1867. The father's birth 
occurred in Camden, Oneida county, New York, June 14, 1844, while the 
mother was born at that place on the 29th of January, 1845. In 1880 
they established their home in Dedham, Iowa, and at the age of five 
years their daughter Edith became a public-school student there. At the 
age of eight she took up the study of music and continued this in 
Dedham until fifteen years old, when she went to Highland Park, Des 
Moines, where music was made a special study. After two terms she 
returned to her home in Dedham, Iowa, where she taught music to a large 
class. By her marriage she has become the mother of five children, four 
sons and one daughter, as follows: Glenn Robertson, who was born March 
13, 1896, and is now engaged in clerking; Isabel Frances, whose birth 
occurred August 11, 1898, and who is a high-school student; Gordon 
Gifford, born March 3, 1902, Kenneth Lowell, whose natal day was June 
29' 1907; and Kermit William, born January 6, 1910. The three last 
named are attending the grade school.  




				G. C. LANDMANN, M. D.  

	Dr. G. C. Landmann is a thoroughly trained and very successful 
physician of Scotland, South Dakota, where in a few years he has built 
up a large and representative practice. He was born in Scotland on the 
14th of July, 1880, and is but a few months younger than the first 
white child born in that city. His grandfather, Anton Landmann, was a 
native of Prussia, born in the village of Duesen, Brandenburg, near the 
city of Berlin. At the age of twenty-one, however, he migrated to 
Russia, joining the German colony that had previously been established 
there, and there he married and reared a family, consisting of a 
daughter and two sons. His son Paul Landmann, the father of the Doctor, 
was born in Russia on the 22d of February, 1855, and accompanied his 
father to Yankton when the latter immigrated to South Dakota in the 
early territorial days. Both the father and son had been teachers in 
the old country and Anton Landmann became sufficiently proficient in 
English to teach in this country for a time.  

	Paul Landmann had learned the tinner's trade and soon found 
employment in Yankton, working for a number of years for Winn & 
Buckwalter, who conducted a tin shop in addition to their hardware 
store. In 1879 he purchased the firm's branch store at Scotland and 
remained in business there for about seventeen years. Upon disposing of 
his store he engaged in the real-estate business and also in banking 
until his death, which occurred on the 30th of October, 1908. At the 
time of his demise he was receiver for the defunct First National Bank 
of Scotland. He was an excellent manager and business man and was also 
the owner of many acres of fine farming land and of much valuable 
property. He was active in public affairs in the early days, having 
served for one term as county treasurer and having represented his 
district for one term in the state legislature. He was also a member of 
the board of regents. He was married in Yankton to Miss Carolina Serr, 
a native of Russia and a daughter of Philip Serr, who was of German 
descent. Her paternal grandfather was but nine years of age when he 
accompanied his father to Wurms, Russia, in 1808. Philip Serr died in 
Russia before the removal of the German colony to America, but his 
widow, who was in her maidenhood Anna Maria Herrmann, brought her 
family of six sons and two daughters to Dakota, reaching the territory 
August 6, 1873. Mrs. Landmann was the second of the children born to 
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Landmann had six children, namely: Theodore, 
who is in business in Milwaukee; Dr. G. C., of this review; Clara, the 
wife of Gustav Bender, of Sutton, Nebraska; Frieda, a student in the 
State University at Vermillion; Eugenia, who graduated from the 
Scotland high school with the class of 1914; and Paul, Jr., still in 
school.  

	Dr. G. C. Landmann was given liberal educational advantages by 
his parents and after graduating from the Scotland Academy took a three 
years, course at Lake Forest University at Lake Forest, Illinois. He 
then matriculated in the medical department of the University of 
Illinois, located at Chicago, and after completing his four years, 
course was graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D. He 
began the practice of his profession in Parkston, South Dakota, the 
same year and remained there for four years. In 1907, however, he was 
offered the chair in bacteriology in Marquette University at Milwaukee, 
the leading Jesuit school in the west, and remained there until 1912, 
when he resigned and returned to Scotland to take charge of his 
mother's business as she did not wish the responsibility of managing 
her large landed and financial interests. Since his return to his 
native city he has built up a fine practice and is considered one of 
the most progressive and successful practitioners in Bon Homme county. 
He keeps fully abreast of the latest discoveries in the medical field 
and finds his membership in various medical associations a great aid in 
acquainting him with the work done by his brother physicians and 
surgeons. He belongs to the Yankton District Medical Society, the South 
Dakota State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the 
Brainard Medical Association of Milwaukee.  

	Dr. Landmann was married in Milwaukee on the 18th of May, 1905, 
to Miss Belinda Rosenheimer, a native of that city and a daughter of 
Adolph Rosenheimer, who is prominent in the grain and malt business. 
Dr. and Mrs. Landmann have two children, Paul and Ruth.  

	The Doctor is a member of the German Reformed church, in which he 
was reared, and of the Masonic order, affiliating with the blue lodge 
and the chapter at Scotland. He has only practiced in Scotland for a 
few years but in that time has gained an enviable reputation as a 
physician as he has a natural gift for the profession and is devoted in 
his study of the science of medicine. His office is splendidly equipped 
and he has an excellent professional library, but he does not confine 
his reading to medical books as he is a great lover of literature and 
his general library is one of the best in Scotland. He has won unusual 
individual success and he has likewise contributed largely to the 
welfare of his community and manifests in his life those sterling 
traits of character which are associated with the German race.