Biography of A. W. Law

	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. Page 393

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A. W. LAW, the younger brother of Thomas J. Law, a sketch of whom will 
appear on another page of this work, is one of the most enterprising and 
prominent of the younger members of the business population of Clear 
Lake, South Dakota, where he, in partnership with his brother, is 
managing and publishing the "Clear Lake Courier."

	Mr. Law was born in Shullsburg, Wisconsin, November 11,  1873. He 
learned the-printer's trade in his father's office and at the same time 
secured an education in the public schools of Shullsburg. He

moved to South Dakota in March, T 896, and purchased the newspaper of 
which he is now manager, of Mr. Whiting, who established it about six 
years before. He has so conducted the various departments of the 
newspaper enterprise that he has built up for himself an excellent 
reputation as an editor and a large patronage for his newspaper. He has 
a bright, spicy, newsy sheet, and through its columns reaches the minds 
and consciences of many of Deuel county's prominent citizens and also 
prominent people in other and adjoining counties. He is a young man of 
strong character, broad ideas, and has a large circle of warm friends. 
Politically he is a Republican.