Charles R. Mabbott 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 546-547

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CHARLES R. MABBOTT, a representative citizen of Aurora county, and 
successful agriculturist living on the northeast quarter of section 26, 
in Hopper township, where he is engaged in general farming and stock 
raising, was born in Arena, Iowa county, Wisconsin, in 1854, the son of 
John R. and Mary C. (Villemonte) Mabbott, the former of English and the 
latter of French descent. 

Our subject was reared on a farm in his native state and received his 
education in a log school house. At the age of twenty-one he started 
for himself and for three years worked on a farm by the month, after 
which he rented two hundred and ninety acres' about sixty acres of 
which was tillable. He remained on this place for four years, engaging 
in dairying and the raising of grain, and in 1883, with three horses, 
eighteen head of cattle, a few hogs, and some machinery, he located on 
his present farm in Hopper township. He built a shanty, fourteen by 
twenty feet, which, in 1898, was replaced by a comfortable residence. 
He has a large barn, granary, corn crib, and all the conveniences of a 
model farm. Two wells, a soft water and deep flowing well, furnish an 
abundance of water for all purposes, and enhance the value of Mr. 
Mabbott's property as a stock and dairy farm. Forest trees, fruit 
trees, small fruits, and ninety acres under grain cultivation, complete 
as fine a farm as can be found in Aurora county. Our subject sustained 
a heavy loss of stock by the blizzard of January, 1888, saving only 
four young cattle. December 18, 1878, Mr. Mabbott was married to Miss 
Lizzie E. Culver, a native of Wisconsin, whose parents moved from New 
York and settled in the former state in the early days of its history. 
Mr. and Mrs. Mabbott are the parents of one child, fifteen years of 
age, named Wilbur Asa. 

Our subject is a member of the Masonic fraternity. As a prominent 
Republican he has held many township offices since his residence in 
Dakota. No one gives more hearty support to the upbuilding of his 
locality than Mr. Mabbott, and Hopper township has in him an upright, 
faithful citizen.