James E. Lanphier Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Page 403

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JAMES E. LANPHIER, an intelligent farmer of much experience, is a 
representative citizen of Nance township, Beadle county, where he owns 
a half-section of the most valuable land in the township. 

James E. Lanphier was born in Saratoga county, New York, August 1, 
1822, the second child in order of birth in a family of seven children 
born to Alpheus J. and Bersheba (Woolworth) Lanphier. At the age of 
sixteen he was apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade, and followed that 
occupation in the state of New York for twenty years. He then engaged 
in farming, and to some extent devoted his attention to dairying; He 
erected a cheese factory in the town of Fairfield, New York, which he 
conducted for ten years. 

In 1883 he and his son located farms in Spink county, Dakota, and 
continued there several years, being among the pioneers of that county. 
He then took a homestead in Beadle county, and from there removed to 
his present location. He has been successful, and owns a valuable 
property, well improved and adapted to diversified farming. He keeps 
about twenty to twenty-five cows, and has for several years made butter 
and cheese for the market. Recently a factory has been located in the 
neighborhood, and he is one of its patrons. 

In political sentiment he is a stanch Prohibitionist, and favors equal 
suffrage. He is a member of the Baptist church, and is a man of worth 
and genuine benevolence. He has many warm friends. His health is good 
and his activity of mind and body seem little impaired, considering his 
age, as he is now in his seventy-seventh year. During the past few 
years he has given the management of his farming interests largely to 
the care of his son, Burton W., the father and son having for several 
years conducted the farming operations in common. 

Mr. Lanphier was married to Elizabeth Tuttle, a native of New York, in 
1841, and this union was broken by the death of the wife a few years 
after their marriage. No children were born to this union. In 1847, our 
subject married Miss Hannah Tooney, a native of Jefferson county, New 
York. To them two sons were born, namely: Irwin (deceased) and Burton 
W.