A. B. Chubbuck Biography


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A. B. CHUBBUCK, the well-known and popular postmaster of Ipswich, and 
editor of the "South Dakota Tribune," has for seventeen years been 
prominently identified with the newspaper interests of the state, and 
enjoys a wide acquaintance and marked popularity in Edmunds county. A 
native of Pennsylvania, he was born in Wellsboro, the county seat of 
Tioga county, in 1858, and is the youngest of a family of seven 
children. His ancestors were originally from New York state. His 
father, Levi Chubbuck, was a successful manufacturer of plows and other 
farm machinery in Wellsboro, and in 1860 was worth about one hundred 
and fifty thousand dollars, but during the seven succeeding years up to 
the time of his death, in 1867, three disastrous fires destroyed his 
property and he lost everything. 

Our subject was educated in the schools of his native city, and after 
the death of his father he started out to earn his own livelihood and 
assist in the support of the family. After working in a brick yard in 
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, for three years, he went to Hudson, Wisconsin, 
at the age of twelve years, and attended school for three years. In 
1873 he entered the office of the "Hudson Star and Times," at that 
place, to learn the printer's trade, and was connected with that office 
until coming to Aberdeen, South Dakota, May 1, 1882. The town at that 
time had only a population of about three hundred, while a few sod 
houses were scattered over the county, but there was not a settler in 
Edmunds county. Mr. Chubbuck secured employment on the "Aberdeen 
Pioneer," as foreman, which position he held for one year, and on the 
3d of May, 1883, started the South Dakota Tribune" at Freeport, Edmunds 
county, a small inland town about two miles northeast of the site of 
the present town of Ipswich. In October, of that year, the Chicago, 
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad was built through the county, and when a 
depot was erected at Ipswich, the three towns of Freeport, Edmunds and 
Georgetown moved thither. When Mr. Chubbuck located there, his was the 
only building in the place besides a saloon; the town had not yet been 
platted; and the railroad had just reached a point three miles east. 
There he has since published his paper, and it is not only the oldest 
paper in the county but also has the largest circulation. 

In 1887, Mr. Chubbuck was united in marriage with Miss Mary K. Rogers, 
a native of Rockford, Illinois, in which state her parents are still 
living. Personally and through his paper, Mr. Chubbuck has done much to 
advance the interests of the Republican party and insure its success in 
this locality. He has served as a delegate to all of its state 
conventions and has exerted his influence in its behalf whenever the 
opportunity presented itself. In August, 1897, he was appointed 
postmaster of Ipswich by President McKinley, and took possession of the 
office the following October, the duties of which he has since 
discharged in a most acceptable manner.