William Tate Biography


	This biography appears on page 808 in "History of Dakota 
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				WILLIAM TATE. 

	William Tate has been actively identified with commercial 
interests at Sioux Falls since 1901, He was born at Rutland, Vermont, 
August 15, 1863, and was a little lad of six or seven summers when in 
1870 his parents removed to Chicago. After the great fire of the 
following year the father went to Rochelle, Illinois, and there William 
Tate continued his education in the common schools until he reached the 
age of thirteen years, when in 1876 he came to Sioux Falls. He was 
still quite young when he started out in the business world on his own 
account and he has had wide experience in the life of the plains, 
having engaged in herding cattle for Mel Covell and afterward for C. K. 
Howard. He rode the range, rounding up the stock, and became acquainted 
with all of the phases of life in the saddle. In 1889 he accepted the 
position of shipping clerk with the firm of Hickey & McNamara, 
wholesalers of liquors, and in 1901 embarked in business on his own 
account and is now a factor in the wholesale trade of the city, dealing 
in liquors. 

	In 1890 Mr. Tate was united in marriage to Miss Jennie McCarty 
and they have become the parents of two daughters: Katie, who died at 
the age of nine years; and Lyla Mary, now the wife of Frank R. Baysore. 

	In his fraternal relations Mr. Tate is an Elk and an Eagle and is 
loyal to the purposes and spirit of both organizations. He has 
qualities which render him socially popular and it is well known that 
Mr. Tate is never too busy to be cordial or too cordial to be busy.