T. P. Estes Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 654, 655

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T. P. ESTES, the present county attorney for Hughes county, and a 
leading citizen of Pierre, was born in Frankfort, Franklin county, 
Illinois, October 7, 1867, a son of Micajah and Sarah M. (Carr) Estes, 
natives of Tennessee and Illinois respectively. The father, who was a 
farmer and stock raiser by occupation, removed to Illinois in the '50s, 
and died at Ewing, that state, in March, 1898. 

Our subject was reared at Frankfort and attended the common schools of 
that city. Later he was a student in Ewing College, Ewing, Illinois, 
where he was graduated in 1887, with the degree of A. B., and then 
turned his attention to teaching, accepting a position in the Mt. Zion 
Military Academy at Holland, Kentucky, where he remained for a year and 
a half, teaching the higher branches -Greek, Latin and sciences. In the 
latter part of 1888 he entered the St. Louis Law School, from which he 
was graduated in June, 1890, with the degree of LL. D., and was 
admitted to the bar in St. Louis, where he engaged in practice for a 
year. In October, 1891, he came to Pierre, South Dakota, and formed a 
partnership with J. K. Lambert, which still exists. He was appointed 
city attorney in 1894, and the following year was elected county judge, 
in which capacity he served two terms. In 1896 he was elected state's 
attorney for Hughes county, and reelected in 1898, being the present 
incumbent. As is his wont in all things he undertakes, he gives every 
detail his most careful consideration, and discharges the duties of his 
office to the utmost satisfaction of the court and the bar of the 
county. He proves a most efficient man for the place, and is a 
veritable terror to evil-doers. In this position, as in all others in 
life, he is thoroughly in earnest, and with his knowledge of the law 
and his keen insight into the motives and actions of men, he achieves 
success both in business and official life. 

On the 15th of November, 1892, Mr. Estes was united in marriage with 
Miss Isabelle Balmer, a native of St. Louis, Missouri. Politically he 
is an ardent Republican who takes a deep interest in the success of his 
party, and fraternally is a member of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, the Knights of the Maccabees, the Modern Woodmen of America, 
the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order. 

A portrait of Mr. Estes will be found on another page of this volume.