Arthur E. Elliott Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 691-692

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ARTHUR E. ELLIOTT, who has assisted in giving Hanson county, South 
Dakota, its present high rank as a thriving agricultural district, is a 
native of Canada. His present home is on the southeast quarter of 
section 23, in Hanson township. He is of English-lrish descent, 
although his parents, John and Jane (Bothwell) Elliott, were born in 
Ireland. They emigrated to America and settled in the province of 
Quebec, Canada, about the year 1836. They were the parents of seven 
children, of whom our subject was the sixth in order of birth. 

Mr. Elliott was born in Canada, July 12, 1855. When but fourteen years 
of age he moved with his parents to Grundy county, Iowa, and assisted 
his father on a farm, and in the fall of 1878 he started for Dakota by 
team. At Sioux Falls he delayed one week, and then pushed forward to 
Fire Steel, Davison county. Before winter he had located his claim and 
filed his papers, but for the first two years he spent most of his time 
in Iowa, and made only such improvements on the land as were necessary 
to hold it. In the spring of 1881 he rented a small shanty a half mile 
distant from his farm, and moved his family from Iowa, and they began 
the struggles of acquiring a home in an undeveloped country. Their 
savings in Iowa had amounted to two hundred dollars, half of which was 
expended in the fall of the same year in the purchase of the shanty. 
Mr. Elliott rented additional land and cultivated about three hundred 
acres. Success followed his efforts, and he is now the owner of a 
highly-improved farm, the equal of any in Hanson county. A good barn, 
outbuildings, deep well with windmill and a model two-story residence 
complete a home of more than usual comforts. 

Mr. Elliott was married, in 1880, to Miss Maria Smallwood. Mrs. Elliott 
was born November 26, 1855, in Freeport, Illinois. She is a lady of 
high attainments, and was a teacher for ten years previous to her 
marriage. The family circle is completed by Mr. and Mrs. Elliott's four 
children: Susie J., Albert A., Roland G. and Leland M. 

Mr. and Mrs. Elliott are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. 
Elliott holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and 
is an earnest worker for Populist, prohibition and equal-suffrage 
principles.