W. L. Miner Biography


	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
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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 334-335

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W. L. MINER, editor and proprietor of the "Herald-Democrat" of Huron, 
South Dakota, is one of the few who could have made a success of a 
paper whose career has been so checkered as has the one of which Mr. 
Miner is at the head. It is in its sixteenth volume, having been 
established in 1883, but it is only five years since he became its 
owner, and he now enjoys the reputation of editing one of the cleanest, 
brightest papers of the state. 

Our subject was the sixth child of a family of eight born to Hon. 
Nelson and Cordelia Miner, and his birthplace is Vermillion, South 
Dakota. His father has the distinction of raising the only company of 
soldiers from Dakota who fought in the Civil war, and of this company 
he was made captain. He was a patriotic, public-spirited man, and for 
eight terms served as senator in the territorial legislature. 

Our subject edits a very popular paper, whose circulation is not 
confined to the locality in which it is published, but its fourteen 
hundred copies, each issue, cover a wide area, and are read with 
eagerness by all. In newspaper circles the "Herald-Democrat" is 
considered one of their brightest exchanges, and its information is 
considered reliable and exact. Mr. Miner has made a success of his 
vocation, and the people of Huron number him among their influential 
citizens. In 1899 Mr. Miner was elected one of the aldermen of the city 
of Huron, to fill that position for two years.