Herman W. Scheel 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 1101-1102

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HERMAN W. SCHEEL, who is conducting one of the largest farms in Alpena 
township, Jerauld county, is one of the early settlers of that 
locality. He was born in Butler county, Iowa, in 1877. 

The father of our subject was born in Germany in 1843, and followed the 
occupation of a farmer. He died in South Dakota at the age of fifty-one 
years. The mother was also a native of Germany, who came to America in 
1868. The father came to America in 1865, and the parents of our 
subject were married in Wisconsin in 1869. They went to Iowa, where the 
father engaged in farming on rented land, and in 1882 the family moved 
to South Dakota and located on the northeast quarter of section 32, in 
Alpena township. They put good improvements on the place, and August 
18, 1886, the entire set of buildings were moved and some entirely 
wrecked by a cyclone. About twenty-five stacks of grain were blown away 
and several horses badly injured. He now has one of the best improved 
farms of the township, and engages in general farming ;and the raising 
of cattle. He conducts a farm of nine hundred and fifty acres, and has 
about four hundred acres under cultivation, and his residence is 
surrounded by a grove of trees, and small fruits and a twelve-acre 
grove are features of the farm. Our subject has conducted the farm 
since the death of his father. He also learned the trade of a 
blacksmith in Woonsocket, and now has a shop on his farm where 
repairing of all kinds is done. The family are members of the Lutheran 
church, and Mr. Scheel is a Populist in political sentiment.