William Richmond 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 355-356

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WILLIAM RICHMOND, the popular and genial proprietor of the Ree Height 
House, of Ree Heights, South Dakota, and a successful business man of 
that place, was born in Brooklyn, New York, September 12, 1845, and is 
a son of John and Catherine Richmond, who were born, reared and married 
in England, but came to the United States when young. The father, who 
was a farmer by occupation, carried on operations first in New York and 
later in Wisconsin, where both he and his wife died. They were the 
parents of seven children, four sons and three daughters, but our 
subject is the only one of the family living in South Dakota. 

William Richmond grew to manhood in Wisconsin, and in that state 
followed carpentering and farming until 1882, when he came to Hand 
county, South Dakota, and took up a homestead in Ree Heights township. 
After living on his claim for ten years, he removed to the village of 
Ree Heights and purchased the hotel which he now conducts. He also 
carries on a blacksmith and wagon shop and in his business undertakings 
is meeting with well deserved success. He is a man of keen perception 
and sound judgment and generally carries forward to successful 
completion whatever he begins. Besides his village property he still 
owns a good farm of one hundred acres. 

In Wisconsin, in 1866, Mr. Richmond married Miss Hattie Roberts, a 
native of that state, and to them has been born one child, Myrtle. 
During the dark days of the Civil war, our subject enlisted, in 1863, 
in Company E, Second Kansas Volunteer Infantry, and served until 
hostilities ceased, taking part in the engagements along the Red river 
in Arkansas, the battles of Helena, Little Rock and Flat Rock, and the 
second battle of Helena, besides many minor engagements. He was several 
times slightly wounded. He is now an honored member of the Grand Army 
of the Republic, and in politics is an ardent Republican. He has filled 
several township offices, and for twelve years most creditably and 
satisfactorily served as chairman of the township board.