Charles D. Tidrick Biography


	This biography appears on pages 254, 257 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				CHARLES D. TIDRICK. 

	Charles D. Tidrick, who is successfully engaged in the abstract, 
loan and real-estate business in Chamberlain, Brule county, was born in 
W interact, Iowa, on the 24th of May, 1863, a son of Levi M. and Martha 
(Bell) Tidrick, pioneers of Iowa who settled at Raccoon Forks in 1840, 
a number of years before that state was admitted to the union. Both 
passed away at their home in Iowa. 

	Charles D. Tidrick entered the State University of Iowa after 
completing his preliminary education and remained in that institution 
for three years, leaving while a junior. In 1884 he located in 
northwestern Iowa as a representative of Slagle & Company, who had a 
number of lumber yards in that section. He was in the employ of that 
company in various places in Iowa and South Dakota, but in 1892 came to 
Chamberlain, where he engaged in the real-estate business. Some time 
afterward he organized the Bank of Iowa and Dakota. which is now 
conducted under the name of the Chamberlain State Bank. For a number of 
years he was president of the institution, but after its reorganization 
in 1896 he concentrated his attention upon the abstract, loan and real-
estate business, in which he is still engaged. He negotiates many 
important transfers of realty and has placed many loans, while his 
activity in the abstract business is also profitable. He was one of the 
organizers of the First National Life Insurance Company of Pierre and 
for five years was its vice president. He also helped to organize the 
Queen City Insurance Company and he organized and owned for a time the 
local gas plant and electric light plant. He is now secretary of the 
water company and is a stockholder in various local enterprises. His 
varied business interests have brought him to the fore and he is widely 
known all over the northwest and wherever known is held in high 
respect. 

	Mr. Tidrick was married in April, 1894, to Miss Lillian Love, a 
daughter of Daniel Love. Mr. and Mrs. Tidrick have three children: 
Eugenia, who is teaching school in Chamberlain; and Mary and Frances. 
The family attend the Episcopal church and support the movements 
seeking the moral betterment of the community. Mr. Tidrick is a 
democrat in politics and has served as county commissioner, on the city 
council and on the school board for a number of years. For eighteen 
years he was United States commissioner and he has always given the 
same care to the public interests entrusted to him that he has given to 
his private business affairs. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason 
and also belongs to El Riad Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Sioux Falls. 
He has membership relations with the Elks as well. In addition to the 
business interests already mentioned he owns much real estate in South 
Dakota and he is enthusiastic about the future of the state and is at 
all times willing to do anything within his power to aid in its 
development.