Clay County, SD Biographies.....Shriner, William 1822 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. WILLIAM SHRINER, a retired farmer, and one of the oldest settlers of Clay
county, was born in York county, Penn., February 23, 1822. When he was thirteen
years of age his parents removed to Belmont county, Ohio, and there William grew
to manhood, learning the trade of wagon maker from his father, Lawrence Shriner,
who followed that occupation. He continued to make his home in Belmont county
for some twenty years, during which time he was married to Miss Patience Dawson,
a native of that county, the wedding occurring May 4, 1843, and to this union
were born five children, two of whom died in Belmont county, as did likewise
their mother, her death taking place May 15, 1853. The surviving children are
Jesse, Jane, the wife of Charles Schossee, and Joel.

   When Mr. Shriner left the Buckeye state he brought his father and the three
children to Bureau county. Ills., and settled on a farm near Lamoille, and there
he followed agriculture in connection; with carpentering for a period of eight
years. There also November 18, 1857, he contracted a second marriage, this time
Harriett Pitman being the bride. She was also a native of Belmont county, Ohio;
her union to our subject has been blessed to them by the advent of eight
children, but two of whom are living, viz.: Flora, the wife of J. A. Marvin, and
Charles Byron. The remaining six, Eldora, Cora B., Etta M., Ethel G., Ella L.,
and Bartlett L., were all taken ill with diphtheria at their parents' home in
Vermillion, where their deaths occurred.

   Mr. Shriner, on leaving the Prairie state, located in Carroll county, Iowa,
where he carried on farming for some three years, and then, early in the summer
of 1860, came to the territory of Dakota, and located on a claim in what is now
Vermillion township, Clay county. The following March he brought his family to
his homestead and continued to make that property his home until the winter of
1875 when he rented the farm and removed to Vermillion. He made the city his
home for ten or twelve years, then returned to his farm; but subsequently he
again took up his residence in Vermillion and there he still lives. While living
in Iowa, Mr. Shriner was elected county judge, serving two years, and in 1875
was appointed, by the commissioners of Clay county, treasurer of the county,
which office he held for some eleven years. He was also a member of the
territorial legislature during 1863 and '64, at one time filled the office of
internal revenue collector in the territories of Dakota and Wyoming, and has
been a member of the Vermillion city council for several years, as well as
probate judge of Clay county.


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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