Burton W. Lanphier 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 403-404

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BURTON W. LANPHIER was born November 16, 1861, in Herkimer county, New 
York. He was employed in cheese making with his father up to the time 
of their coming to Spink county, South Dakota, and he remained with his 
parents until his marriage in 1889. In 1890 he went to Chicago and was 
employed as conductor on a street car line for several years. He 
returned to Dakota, however, and in 1896 purchased the land upon which 
the buildings now stand. He is conducting general farming on an 
extensive scale. He keeps about thirty milch cows, making butter for 
the markets in the winter, and patronizing the cheese factory in the 
summer months. He cultivates about three hundred acres in crops each 
year, employing one man the year round, and two during the busy season. 
He has extended his interests by leasing a section of school lands and 
fencing it for pasture. He is still a young man, and is wide awake to 
the needs of his community and county. He is a Republican and 
prohibitionist and favors equal suffrage. He is active in local 
political affairs, and has been selected to serve in various public 
capacities. He has been a member of the township board, assessor and 
served four years as school clerk. He is a thorough business man, 
sociable, affable and public spirited and has a host of friends.