Peter Flamming Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 616-617

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PETER FLAMMING. The farm of Peter Flamming comprises four hundred and 
twenty acres in and adjoining section 33, Spring Lake township, Hanson 
county, and is one of the many evidences which prove the truth of the 
old adage, "work wins worth." His property, as it stands today, is a 
credit to the locality and improvements are being steadily pushed 
forward. The motto of his life is "push and keep pushing," and by this 
"pushing" he has made himself what he is today, one of the most 
substantial men of the township in which he lives. and a man of 
undoubted integrity. 

In tracing the life history of the subject of our sketch, we find he 
was born in the kingdom of Luxemburg, Germany, the date of his nativity 
being May 4, 1844. When he was eleven years of age, the family moved to 
America, and after living for several months in different places, 
finally settled in Brown county, Wisconsin, where the father, Frank 
Flamming, died. The: mother, Susan Flamming, who was born in 1 808, is 
yet living in Brown county. From the age of fifteen years, our subject 
worked in the Wisconsin pineries summer and winter. In 1879 he started 
for the Black Hills region and while en route with his team and wagon, 
he secured work on the railroad and went to the Wessington Hills. Here 
his team was stolen, and as the work was all team work, he was 
compelled to quit and walk back to Alexandria from the Missouri river. 
Here he filed a claim to a quarter section of land in Hudson county, 
walking to Mitchell to make his filings. Then, in search of work, he 
walked to Yankton, and in July, 1880, he went to Spring Lake township 
and began to develop his farm into its present state of productiveness 
and make for himself a cozy and attractive home. Politically our 
subject is a Republican and voices the policy of high license. In 
matters of local politics, he has always a]so interested himself and 
has become one of the leaders in the affairs of the community. He was 
county commissioner for the first district from the year 1895 to 1898, 
and has also served the citizens of the township in various local 
offices of trust and was sent as a delegate to county and state 
conventions. 

In 1881 Mr. Flamming was united in marriage to Miss Katie Zeihen, who 
was also-born in Germany in the year 1851 and came to America in the 
year 1874. To this union have been born seven children, all of whom 
were born in Dakota and upon whom they have seen fit to bestow the 
following names: Susan, Maggie, Frank, Clara, Michael, Katie and Mary.