Frank J. Tuor Biography


	This biography appears on pages 678-679 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
	scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

	This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit 
	organizations for their private use. 

	Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval 
	system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other 
	means requires the written approval of the file's author.

	This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside
	a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at

	http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm


				FRANK J. TUOR. 

	Frank J. Tuor is a resident farmer of Lake county, living on 
section 13, Badus township. He was born in Stillwater, Minnesota, on 
the 7th of April, 1868, a son of Anthony and Rosina Tuor. The family 
came to South Dakota with the Lidga Grisa colony, Anthony Tuor and 
Joseph Tenner being selected by the colony to make a trip to this state 
and choose a location for the band. They picked out claims for thirty 
families, most of whom removed to the state in the spring of 1880. The 
settlement was made in Lake county, around Badus Lake. They secured 
land eighty rods wide and a mile in length, so that all would be close 
together, and thus was formed the little colony which has been an 
important element in the settlement, development, progress and 
prosperity of the county. Mr. Tuor located his homestead on section 24, 
Badus township, and secured a tree claim on section 13. The land was 
destitute of all improvements but with characteristic energy he began 
the work of development, breaking the sod, planting the crops and in 
due time gathering good harvests. He carried on general farming there 
until his death, which occurred in 1896 as the result of an accident. 
His widow survived him for only a few years, passing away in 1901. 

	Frank J. Tuor was a youth of eleven years when the family came to 
this state. He pursued his education in the district schools and 
afterward gave his undivided attention to the work of the farm under 
the direction of his father. Following the father's death he took 
charge of the farm for his mother, for whom he conducted it for four 
years and then began farming the place independently, meeting with a 
fair measure of success as the years have gone by. He uses all the 
latest farm implements and machinery and annually his fields bring 
forth good crops for which he finds a ready sale on the market. He 
keeps on hand twenty-two head of horses and twenty-five head of cattle 
and his business management and progressive spirit have been the chief 
factors in his continued success. He is likewise a stockholder in the 
Farmers Elevator Company and the Woodmen Opera House Company at Ramona. 

	On the 19th of October, 1898, Mr. Tuor was united in marriage to 
Miss Elizabeth Palli, a daughter of Jacob and Paulina Palli. Their 
children are as follows: Cora; Frank and Grace, twins; Margaret; and 
Lawrence. 

	The family are communicants of the Catholic church and Mr. Tuor 
holds membership with Sioux Falls Council of the Knights of Columbus 
and also with the Modern Woodmen of America. His political allegiance 
is given to the democratic party and he has filled the office of town 
treasurer. He has also been a school director and is a public-spirited 
man, taking an active and helpful interest in those plans and measures, 
which work for the benefit and upbuilding of both town and county. He 
is numbered among the earliest settlers of his part of the state and 
can relate many interesting incidents of the early days and as well 
tell the tale of progress which has brought Lake county to its present 
condition.