Charles E. Granger Biography


	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 382-383

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CHARLES E. GRANGER is one of the leading merchants of Blunt, South 
Dakota, and his business interests have been so managed as to win him 
the confidence of the public and the prosperity that should always 
attend honorable effort. He was born on the 26th of April, 1862, in the 
village of East Pike, Wyoming county, New York, and is a son of Martin 
and Cynthia (Otis) Granger, also natives of the Empire State. The 
father was a merchant and engaged in that business in New York and also 
in Fort Dodge, Iowa, but he spent his last days in the former state, 
where he died in December, 1889. 

Our subject was reared in his native state, and acquired his education 
in its common schools. When a young man he was employed in a woolen 
factory for three years and then followed various occupations until 
coming to Blunt, South Dakota, in 1884. He took up land in Sully 
county, and after proving it up, followed other callings than 
agricultural pursuits. In 1887 he commenced clerking in a store in 
Blunt, and was thus employed until the 1st of May, 1896, when he 
purchased his present business, which he has since conducted with 
marked success, enjoying a large and lucrative trade. 

Mr. Granger was married, in 1892, to Miss Mate Vance, a native of Iowa, 
and to them was born a son, Clayton, who died March 2, 1897. Mrs. 
Granger is an earnest member of the Presbyterian church, while our 
subject belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen and the Knights of the Maccabees. In political sentiment he is 
an ardent Republican, but has never sought nor desired official honors. 
Although he came to the county without means, he is now quite well-to-
do, and his life is a living illustration of what ability, energy and 
force of character can accomplish.. It is to such men that the west 
owes its prosperity, its rapid progress and its advancement.