E. J. Searle Biography


	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 652-653

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E. J. SEARLE, of the firm of Fletcher & Searle, editors and proprietors 
of the "State Democrat," of Aberdeen, South Dakota, was born in 
Chicago, Illinois, March 4, 1874 and is a son of J. T. and Elizabeth 
(Thayers) Searle, natives of England, who, on first coming to America, 
in 1873, located in Chicago. The father died in 1886, but the mother 
still survives, and all of their eight children are living. 

In 1877 our subject accompanied the family on their removal to Page 
county, Iowa, and in 1884 returned with them to England. On again 
coming to the New World they settled in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where 
at the age of thirteen years our subject entered the office of the 
"Daily News" to learn the printer's trade. In 1893 he became connected 
with the "State Democrat," of which he is now one of the proprietors. 
He is a member of the State Press Association and a Democrat in 
politics.