Clay County, SD Biographies.....Richardson, George Wells April 28, 1854 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

GEORGE WELLS RICHARDSON, well-known as one of the prominent farmers of Spirit Mound
township, Clay county, in section 11, of which he is operating a valuable farm of
160 acres that he is the fortunate owner of, is a native of Rock county, Wis., born
April 28, 1854. His father and mother, Alonzo and Cordelia (Hoyt) Richardson, were
both born in New York, located after their marriage in Rock county, Wis., and left
the Badger state in 1878 and settled in Spirit Mound township, Clay county, where
Mr. Richardson passed to the world beyond, March 24, 1888. His good wife still
survives.

George W. Richardson was the only child born to this union. He was reared and
educated in his native county and there married, February 22, 1877, Miss Kate Ellen
Backenstoe, who was born in the same county January 27, 1855. Mrs. Richardson's
parents, George A. and Ellen (Hoxie) Backenstoe, were natives of Pennsylvania and
Maine respectively. After their marriage they settled in Rock county, Wis., and
there he died January 25, 1894. Mrs. Backenstoe still survives as do also five
children of their family of three sons and four daughters, of whom Mrs. Richardson
was the third in order of birth.

Mr. Richardson during the latter-part of his residence in Wisconsin was engaged in
the mercantile business in Evansville, but since coming to Dakota, which was in the
spring of 1878, he has exclusively devoted his attention to agriculture, and .has
constantly resided since that time in Spirit Mound township. He has taken quite an
interest in local political matters and public affairs of the community, has held
various of the township offices, and since 1884 has served as postmaster of
Bloomingdale post office. Socially he is a member of the M. W. A.

Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have a cozy home and the family circle is completed by five
children, viz.: Fred A., Claude W., Charles B., Lillian E. and Henry.


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