Carl G. Wallbaum Biography


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				CARL G. WALLBAUM. 

	Business enterprise in Yankton finds a worthy representative in 
Carl G. Wallbaum, proprietor of one of the leading drug stores of the 
city. He was born in Yankton in 1885, a son of Gerhard and Kathrine 
(Becker) Wallbaum, in whose family were two children, the daughter 
being Mrs. Mae Sundheimer, of Omaha, Nebraska. The family name 
indicates their German origin. The father was born June 9, 1840, in 
Leer, Hanover, and was a young man of twenty-nine years when, in 1869, 
he arrived in Yankton, South Dakota, coming to this city from Niobrara, 
Nebraska. He had made his way up the south bank of the Missouri river 
and afterward went down stream to Yankton, where he lived for forty 
years, or until the time of his death, on the 29th of May, 1909. He was 
long an active factor in business circles. In 1871 he entered into 
partnership with John Becker in the conduct of the Germania House, 
under the well known firm name of Wallbaum & Becker. They made this a 
popular hostelry, well patronized, and became widely known throughout 
their section of the state. Mr. Wallbaum possessed the social genial 
qualities that rendered him popular with those with whom he came in 
contact and his business ability and his devotion to the public welfare 
made him a valued and worthy citizen. In 1874 he married Kathrine 
Becker, a sister of his partner, and surviving her husband for several 
years, she passed away in Yankton, June 6, 1914. Mr. Wallbaum was a 
member of Dakota Lodge, No. 1, I. O. O. F., and was ever loyal to the 
teachings and purposes of that organization. 

	Reared in his native city, Carl G. Wallbaum attended the public 
schools of Yankton and also the School of Pharmacy of the Northwestern 
University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1905. The 
following year he purchased the drug store of Dr. V. S. Ross, of 
Yankton, and has built up the largest trade in the city. His 
establishment would be a credit to a city of much larger size, for it 
is well appointed and tastefully arranged and he carries a complete 
line of drugs and druggists, sundries, fills prescriptions and handles 
a large amount of kodaks and photographic supplies. The business is 
growing rapidly and is assuming gratifying and profitable proportions. 

	In Yankton, on the 8th of January, 1909, Mr. Wallbaum was united 
in marriage to Miss Elsie Binder, a daughter of Peter B. Binder, a 
pioneer of Yankton, and to them have been born two sons, Lawrence and 
Robert. Mr. Wallbaum belongs to the Elks Lodge, No. 994, Dakota Lodge, 
No. 1, I. O. O. F., the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Knights of 
the Maccabees. He is also a communicant of the Episcopal church and 
these relations indicate much of the rules that govern his conduct. 
Regarding the pursuits of private life as in themselves abundantly 
worthy of his best efforts, he is now concentrating his energies upon 
his business affairs and while a young man has attained a most 
creditable position in business circles, having won a measure of 
success that many an older man might well envy.