O. C. Currier Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Page 552

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O. C. CURRIER is classed among the most energetic and capable farmers 
of Union township, McCook county. His career has been marked throughout 
with persistent and faithful efforts and he has been rewarded by the 
acquisition of a good property and a high reputation. His farm is one 
of the model farms of the county, the entire four hundred and eighty 
acres being improved and tillable, furnished with an orchard, small 
fruit and forest trees, and the whole place evidences thrift and 
prosperity. 

In tracing the history of the subject of our sketch, we find that he is 
a native of the state of New York, born in 1843. His father, though he 
was born in America, was of Irish descent and was a carpenter by trade. 
The mother was of English descent. Mr. Currier spent his boyhood in the 
state of his nativity until he reached the age of fourteen years, and 
then moved with his parents to Wisconsin, where his father engaged in 
farming. His education was such as was afforded by the public schools 
of those early days, and at the age of twenty one he started in life 
for himself as a farm laborer. In 1865, having been previously married, 
he moved to Iowa and engaged in farming there until 1880, when he 
started with his wife and family in a covered: wagon for McCook county, 
South Dakota. One son was born in this wagon on the trip. Upon reaching 
Dakota, Mr. Currier possessed seven horses, forty head of cattle and 
about five hundred dollars in money, and with this start he filed a 
claim to the northeast quarter of section 1, Union township, and soon 
afterward bought the southeast quarter of the same section and other 
lands until he is now the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of 
farm land. Three hundred acres of this is now under cultivation, 
eighteen acres is in forest trees, two and a half to apple trees, 
besides an abundance of plums, currants, gooseberries, blueberries, 
raspberries, etc. The barns and outbuildings are also substantial and 
convenient in their arrangement and the home is cozy and comfortable. 
Our subject and his family have had their share of the hardships 
subject to settlers in a new country, and they appeared this time in 
the shape of a scarcity of provisions during a most severe winter as 
well as the usual absence of schools for the education of their 
children. Mr. Currier invariably uses his elective franchise in the 
support of the candidates of the Republican party, although he has 
little time to devote to politics and has never sought or held public 
office. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Masonic lodge, and he 
and his wife are both members of the Methodist church. 

In 1862 Mr. Currier was united in marriage to Miss Samantha Cross, an 
American girl whose parents were natives of the state of New York. To 
this union have been born ten children, all of whom are living and 
three of the sons and one daughter are married.