Clay County, SD Biographies.....Willey, Elias H. 1846 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

ELIAS H. WILLEY, editor of the Dakota Republican and one of the foremost
citizens of Vermillion, where he has headquarters, was born in Waterville, Vt.,
May 30, 1846. His father, Daniel Willey, was a farmer by occupation, and was
married in Vermont to Miss Sarah Comings. Mrs. Willey died in Waterville, Vt.,
in 1850, and Mr. Willey in 1892 came to Vermillion to live with his son, where
he now resides. They had two children, our subject being the eldest, and Auretta E.

   Elias H. was reared in his native place on his father's farm, and was well
trained amid home influences in the duties of life until he had attained the age
of seventeen years. When he left his father's home at that age, he went to Hyde
Park, the county seat of Lamoille county, Vt., and there began his
apprenticeship of three years in the "art preservative of all arts." After
becoming proficient at the trade he continued in the same office for some five
years, and then, from 1872 to '74, published the Orange County Eagle at West
Randolph, of the same state. In 1874 he concluded to try his fortune in the west
and accordingly located at Storm Lake, Iowa, where he secured employment as a
printer, and later followed his trade in Sac City. In 1881 he left the Hawkeye
state and returned east, going to the New England states, and the following six
years was employed in a printing establishment at Paris Hill, Me.

   Early in May, 1887, our subject left the Pine Tree state for Wisconsin, and
on the 29th day of the same month at Waldo, Sheboygan county, Miss Susan L.
Danforth, a native of Franklin county, Vt., became Mrs. E. H. Willey. The bride
and groom spent a happy honey-moon in the Badgar State until the following
October, at which time they removed to Vermillion, S. Dak., and here they have
since been, residents. Mr. Willey worked at his trade until May, 1888, and then
purchased the Dakota Republican, which paper he has since edited and published,
although since January 1, 1895, he has had Mr. E. S. Danforth as an associate.
The paper, as its name implies, is Republican in politics, to which party our
subject gives allegiance, and has a circulation of one thousand copies. It is a
strictly "up-to-date" sheet, bright and newsy, and a perusal of its editorial
columns will convince any one that the editor is a man of broad guage
intellectually, well-informed on current topics, and possessed of sound and
mature judgment. Mr. Willey is a popular man, well-known, and highly respected
by his many friends and acquaintances, and it is with pleasure that we are able
to incorporate a brief review of his life in this volume. Socially, he holds
membership in the Knights of Pythias.



Additional Comments:
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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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