Noyes Appleman Biography


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NOYES APPLEMAN, a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Cavour 
township, Beadle county, whose home is on section 19, was born in 
Mystic River, Connecticut, April 9, 1850, and is the third in order of 
birth in a family of nine children, whose parents were Gustavus A. and 
Prudence (Williams) Appleman. The father, who was a sea-faring man, 
after many successful voyages, first as a common sailor and later as 
captain of a whaler, fisher and merchantman, abandoned the sea at the 
age of forty years, on account of a pledge to his wife, and moved to 
the new state of Iowa, in October, 1854, settling in Fayette county on 
a farm of four hundred acres which he bought. 

Upon that place Noyes Appleman spent his boyhood and youth, attending 
the public schools and an academy, where he prepared himself for 
entrance into the Eastman National Business College, of Poughkeepsie, 
New York, from which he received a diploma. After his return from 
college, he assisted his father on the farm during the summer months, 
and engaged in teaching schools through the winter seasons. For some 
time he led quite a checkered life as a school teacher, railroad 
contractor and land speculator, and in 1874 was made superintendent of 
E. H. Williams' large farm of 2,300 acres in Clayton county, Iowa, 
which position he filled for one year, but disliking the employment, he 
again turned his attention to teaching school, and then spent two years 
in California. On his return to Iowa, he was elected steward of the 
Iowa State Hospital for the Insane, where he remained five years, and 
next served as bookkeeper in the First National Bank of McGregor, Iowa. 

As his health failed, Mr. Appleman then came to Beadle county, South 
Dakota, in 1882, and entered the southeast quarter of section 19, 
Cavour township, first as a tree claim and afterward as a pre-emption. 
He also secured the northwest quarter of the same section as a 
homestead, where he erected another set of farm buildings, and he has 
since successfully engaged in the operation of his land. From 1893 
until 1897, he served as deputy sheriff and jailer of Beadle county, 
during which time he made his home in Huron, and in the fall of 1898 
again Ed moved to that place to live temporarily for the purpose of 
educating his sons. 

On the 21st of May, 1882, Mr. Appleman was united in marriage with Miss 
Belle M. Alquist, who was born in Owego, New York, in 1850, and to them 
have been born two sons: Louis C., who is now in first year in high 
school at Huron; and Archie, who is in the third grammar grade. 

Mr. Appleman is somewhat of a politician and is usually a member of the 
Republican central committee. He also holds a place on the various town 
boards and in school matters takes quite an active and prominent part. 
Socially, he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
and the Knights of Pythias, and is now an active member of the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen of America. His career 
has ever been such as to win for him the confidence and respect of all 
with whom he has come in contact either in public or private life.