Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Byrne, William 1861 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    WILLIAM BYRNE, who is one of the representative farmers and stock growers of

Faulk county, where he is the owner of a large and valuable stock ranch, is a

native son of the great north-west, and has exemplified its progressive spirit

in a marked degree, gaining success through his well directed efforts in

connection with the industral developments of South Dakota, where he has

maintained his home for the past twenty-five years, so he is entitled to be

counted among the pioneers of Faulk county.



    Mr. Byrne was born in Allamakee, county, Iowa, on the eighteenth of

September, 1861, and is a son of Lawrence and Delia Byrne. William Byrne was

raised on the homestead farm where he was born, and received his education in

the excellent public schools of Iowa. He continued to be associated in the

management of the homestead until 1882, when the property was sold and he then,

with his mother and other members of the family, came to Dakota Territory. They

passed the winter of that year in Turner county and the spring of 1883, came to

the new county of Faulk, where each of the family entered claims on government

land. The subject of this sketch took a preemption claim six miles east of

Orient and one mile from the Miranda station, on the Chicago and North Western

Railroad. Miranda is his postoffice address. He at once commenced the

improvement, to which he has continued to add until nearly one thousand acres

are under improvement, being devoted to the raising of wheat, oats, corn, barley

and hay. He is giving his attention to the raising of high grade stock. His

place has an excellent supply of pure water which may be secured at a depth of

about sixteen feet upon any part of the ranch. Two years ago Mr. Byrne added to

his valuable property by the erection of a fine residence with all modern

improvements. He has also a herd of fine horses. Politically he is in accord

with the principles and policies of the republican party and fraternally

identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of the Maccabees.



    On the 15th day of May, 1895, Mr. Byrne was married to Miss May Paul, who

was born in Muscatine, Iowa, being a daughter of August Paul, who removed from

that state to Dakota Territory in 1884, locating in Faulk county, where he

remained until 1894, when he removed to the state of Virginia, where he resided

for several years, but is now a resident of Faulk county again. He is a native

of Germany as is his wife, whose maiden name was Bertha Shulz. To Mr. and Mrs.

Byrne have been born six children, viz: Paul, Raymond, Theodore, Leonard, John,

and Robert.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9

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