E. Waterbury Biography


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				E. WATERBURY.  

	Since 1889 E. Waterbury has been a grain buyer at Mellette and in 
the intervening years his business has proven an excellent market for 
the grain raisers of Spink county and adjoining districts. Handling the 
crops intelligently he has been able to win a substantial measure of 
success in his dealings and has been an investor in farm property, 
owning today three hundred and twenty acres of valuable farm land, 
which is the visible evidence of a life of well directed energy and 
thrift.  

	Mr. Waterbury was born in Jefferson, Wisconsin, April 23, 1860, 
and comes of a family of English descent. His ancestors were among the 
Puritans who early settled here, representatives of the name being 
found on this side of the Atlantic long before the Revolutionary war. 
His father, Nelson Waterbury, upon leaving the east, went with his 
family to Jefferson, Wisconsin, where he became stationary engineer for 
the Jefferson Manufacturing Company. In 1874 he purchased a farm in 
Clark county which was covered with timber. He performed the difficult 
task of cutting away the trees, grubbing up the stumps and burning the 
brush and when his land was cleared he put in his crops and ultimately 
developed a good farm. Year after year he diligently pursued the task 
to which he had set himself and his labors won their just reward in a 
substantial competence. He died in February, 1907, at the age of 
eighty-four years and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah 
Pedrick, survived only until June of that year, passing away at the age 
of eighty-one, their graves being made in the cemetery at Loyal, 
Wisconsin. They had reared a family of three sons and two daughters, 
namely: W. F., who carries on farming in Mellette township, Spink 
county, South Dakota; A. F., a mine operator at Encampment, Wyoming; E. 
Waterbury of this review; Theada, the widow of W. W. Lyons and a 
resident of Loyal, Wisconsin; and Lina, the wife of James Vancamp, 
residing at Park Falls, Wisconsin.  

	E. Waterbury began his education in the schools of Jefferson, 
Wisconsin, and continued his studies in Loyal after the family took up 
their abode in that town. His textbooks were put aside, however, when 
he reached the age of sixteen years, for he was ambitious to start out 
on his own account. He worked in the lumber camps in the winter seasons 
and in the summer mouths was employed at farm labor, his time being 
thus passed until he reached his majority. He then came to South Dakota 
and filed on a homestead in Mellette township which farm he still owns, 
it having now been in his possession for a third of a century. He set 
to work diligently to increase his holdings and from time to time has 
added to his property until he is now the owner of three hundred and 
twenty acres of well improved land, part of which is devoted to the 
production of crops, while still other tracts serve as pasture land for 
his stock. At the present time, however, he rents the place and is now 
concentrating his energies upon the grain trade. In 1889 he began 
buying grain at Mellette and his business has grown year by year until 
it is now one of large and gratifying proportions.  

	Mr. Waterbury has been twice married. In Mellette in 1887 he 
wedded Miss Nellie Rigley, who died in September of the following year, 
leaving a son Glenn, who is now an electrician for the Rumley Company 
in the Argentine. Mrs. Waterbury was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James 
Rigley, who reside at Mobridge, South Dakota. Mr. Waterbury was again 
married in 1896, his second union being with Mrs. Florence Barnes, a 
daughter of William Stockwell, of Owatonna, Minnesota.  

	Mr. Waterbury is a blue lodge Mason and in politics is a 
republican. His high standing in the regard of his fellow townsmen is 
indicated by the fact that he has been elected and served for seven 
years as mayor of Mellette, giving to the town a businesslike and 
progressive administration which has resulted in bringing about 
necessary reforms and improvements. He manages public affairs with the 
same care and precision that marks his control of his private business 
interests and those who are opposed to him politically never question 
the integrity of his motives or fail to recognize the beneficial 
results which he obtains. There are in America, where effort is 
unhampered by caste or class, many self made men. To this class belongs 
E. Waterbury—diligent and determined in business, enterprising and 
reliable in public affairs and ever loyal and true to his friends.