Clay County, SD Biographies.....Inman, Darwin M. 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. DARWIN M. INMAN, a prominent business man of Vermillion, is a native of the
Empire state, born in Clarendon, Orleans county. He was reared on a farm  and
attended the common schools in which he was taught the elementary branches of
learning. Later he became a student at the Holley and Albion (New York)
academies, where he was fitted for college, and in due time graduated from the
Rochester university. On the completion of his education he taught school in his
native state for a while (he yet holds a New York state teacher's certificate)
and then decided on coming west. He arrived in Vermillion, Dak. Ter., December
30, 1874, and shortly afterward engaged in banking with M. D. Thompson and M. J.
Lewis, they conducting a private bank until the First National bank of
Vermillion was organized a few years later, at which time our subject was
elected president. He is also a member of the firm of Thompson & Lewis, grain
and agricultural implement dealers, and is quite largely interested in buying
and selling real estate in different sections of the country.

    Politically Mr. Inman has always affiliated with the Democratic party, and
being the possessor of sound judgment and business ability, and integrity of
character beyond reproach, he has been frequently called upon to accept public
offices. He was elected supervisor of his native town in New York state two
terms, and in the spring of 1876, after coming to Vermillion, was elected
alderman and chosen president of the board. The fall of the same year-1876 -he
was elected a member of the territorial legislature, and was re-elected to the
same position twice, serving in all three terms in that body. He was also a
member of the first state legislature and served for six years as chairman of
the Democratic state central committee. Mr. Inman is a stanch friend of
education and has been closely identified with the growth and progress of the
State university, having served as director and trustee four terms. He is now a
member of the present board of trustees of that institution. Socially our
subject belongs to Incense lodge No. 12, F. & A. M., chapter No. 2i, of
Vermillion, DeMolay commandary No. 3, of Yankton, and Elriad shrine of Sioux Falls.

   The marriage of our subject and Miss Adele Lewis, a native of New York state,
was celebrated December 28, 1874.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.

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