Samuel W. Sedgwick Biography


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SAMUEL W. SEDGWICK, dealer in lumber and coal, in Pukwana, is among the 
prominent members of the community, and the county of Brule, South 
Dakota, has in him an earnest worker for any enterprise which 
strengthens the financial standing of the county. Our subject is a 
native of Chittenden county, Vermont, and was born August 9, 1839. 

The father of our subject, Samuel W. Sedgwick, Sr., was born August 10, 
1810, and died in 1881. He was a tailor by trade, and during his life 
took an active part in church work. Our subject's mother, Eliza 
(Burritt) Sedgwick, was born in 1812 and died in 1863. 

Mr. Sedgwick lived with his parents in Vermont until he was nineteen 
years of age, and was apprenticed to learn the trade of a painter and 
afterward moved to Iowa. He worked as bookkeeper in Davenport, Iowa, 
and also in Muscatine, Iowa, and in the spring of 1883 he started a 
lumber yard in Kimball, South Dakota, and in 1884 began farming in the 
southeastern part of Brule county. This did not prove a successful 
venture, and in 1890 he obtained a position as clerk in the land office 
in Chamberlain, where he worked a year, and in the fall of 1891 he took 
the management of a lumberyard in Chamberlain. In 1893 he went to 
Pukwana, in charge of the lumber business of which he now holds the 
controlling interest. He is president of the Pukwana Building 
Association, which was incorporated in 1898 with a capital stock, of 
five thousand dollars, and is supported by the most energetic business 
men of the town. A city hall is now in progress of erection and will 
add materially to the appearance of the village. 

In 1861 Mr. Sedgwick enlisted in Company B, First Iowa Infantry, as a 
private soldier. and at the end of three and a half years of active 
service, during which time he performed the duties of his position with 
undaunted courage, he was mustered out as a lieutenant. A few of the 
more important engagements through which he passed are Wilson's Creek, 
Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg, and Corinth. 

The subject of this review was married in 1865 to Miss Christina 
Givans. To Mr. and Mrs. Sedgwick have been born six children, five of 
whom are living. Their names in order of birth are as follows: Ernest 
M., proprietor of a stock ranch west of the Missouri river; Lucy G., 
Mrs. A. G. Pond; Harold 0., deceased; Edith M., teacher in Chamberlain 
High School; Clarence E., and Pearl L. 

Mr. Sedgwick is a member of the Congregational church and the G. A. R. 
Politically he favors Republican and equal suffrage principles, and is 
thoroughly awake to the needs of the hour.