Day-Brown County, SD Biographies.....Atherton, Fred 1855 - 
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Author: G. A. Ogle (1898)

Pages 987-988



FRED ATHERTON is the editor and proprietor of the "Clipper" of Waubay, Day

county, and is a well-known newspaper man of that section. Mr. Atherton was born

in Taylor county, West Virginia, March 12, 1855, and is a son of Milton and

Delia (Benschoter) Atherton, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio. His

father was a farmer by occupation, and during the war was a government

contractor. He was wounded several times by the Confederates, but finally

recovered. Our subject received a scant education in his native state and at the

age of eleven secured a place on a vessel on the great lakes, and for seven

years afterward he followed the life of a sailor, visiting nearly all of the

large ports of the world during that time. He lived in Indiana and Michigan

until 1879, and while in those states learned pharmacy and became a druggist. In

1882 he went to Dakota and settled in Brown county. He remained there until the

spring of 1890 and then removed to Waubay, where he established the paper which

he now controls. This publication was then owned by C. W. Stafford & Son, of

Aberdeen, South Dakota, and he conducted it for them until 1891, when it become

[sic] his own property. Mr. Atherton was also a druggist at Waubay for five

years, but disposed of his business in 1895. He is a Republican politically, and

has been assistant postmaster, besides having held a number of other local

offices. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W., K. of L., and is very

well known and popular in the northeastern part of the state.



    Mr. Atherton has been twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name was

Elizabeth, and to whom he was united in 1871, died eight years later, leaving

one child, Guy W. Mr. Atherton married again in 1890, his second wife having

been Miss Martha Holman. Mrs. Atherton has born her husband one child, Leoline.



Additional Comments:
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 with a review of

their life work... Also a compendium of national biography.   



Publisher: Chicago, G.A. Ogle, 1898.

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