Biography of Gunder O. Inlagen

	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, 1898. Pages 248-249.

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GUNDER O. INLAGEN is the present sheriff of Deuel county, and a very 
highly esteemed and popular official, besides being one of the leading 
citizens of Clear Lake, where he resides. 

	Mr. Inlagen was born December 23, 1848, in Norway, and is a son of 
Ole and Anna Inlagen. His father died in 1886, at the age of sixty-four, 
and his mother in 1882, soon after she had attained her sixty-second year. 
There were three children in the family, G. O., the subject of this sketch, 
Carrie and Julia. The last named died in Norway at the age of fourteen. 

	Gunder received a rather limited education in his native country, 
and at the age of fifteen began learning the blacksmith trade, at which 
he worked four years. When about twenty years old he left the land of his 
birth and came to this country, settling in Minneiska, Minnesota. Shortly 
afterward he went to Weaver, in the same state, where his uncle lived, 
and there found employment as a blacksmith for the C. M. & St. P. R. 
R., for a short time afterwards engaging in the blacksmith business for 
himself. He remained at Weaver until 1879, in that year going further 
west. 

	On the fifth of May he arrived in Gary, and there opened a 
blacksmith shop as partner of one I. R. Martin, which he continued for 
some years. He was deputy sheriff of Deuel county under F. E. Millard 
for six years. In 1884 he took a tree claim in Deuel county, but later 
sold this. In the fall of 1894 Mr. Inlagen was elected to the office of 
sheriff, and in 1896 was chosen to fill this position for a second 
time. He is living only temporarily in Clear Lake, as he owns a 
residence in Gary, and intends to resume his domicile there as soon as 
his official life is over. He is a Republican in politics, one of the 
local leaders of his party, and among the most enthusiastic workers in 
the cause of "sound money and prosperity" He is a member of the Masonic 
order and the Lutheran church, and was admitted to the former in 1882.

	Mr. Inlagen has been twice married. His first wife was Louise 
Guettinger, a native of Buffalo county, Wisconsin, and of German 
extraction. He was wedded to her in La Crescent, Minnesota, in 1878. 
Mrs. Inlagen died in June, 1886, leaving two children, Clarence and 
Anna. Clarence, who was a printer by trade, died in Luverne, Minnesota, 
in 1896. Anna now resides at her father's home in Clear Lake. Mr. 
Inlagen married again in Gary, South Dakota, in 1891, his second wife 
being Mary Agnes Moran, who is a native of Canada. and was formerly a 
teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Inlagen are the parents of one child, a daughter, 
Marion Esther.