Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Sprague, Albert J. 1838 - living in 1909
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Author: C. H. Ellis
ALBERT J. SPRAGUE was born August 23, 1838 in Erie county, Pennsylvania. When

about one and one-half years old his parents removed to the state of Illinois

and located in Kane county where he grew up to manhood. In 1855 he removed to

Wisconsin and afterwards to Illinois, but in 1861 became a permanent resident of

Wisconsin, and in 1862 enlisted on the 20th of August in Company B, Twelfth

Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served until the end of the war, being

mustered out of the service in Washington on May 31, 1865. He then returned to

Wisconsin and took up the duties of civil life.



    Mr. Sprague remained a resident of Toronto, in the county of Sauk, until

1883, when he took up his residence in Faulk county, Territory of Dakota,

locating upon the north-west quarter of section 19, township 117, range 67, and

resided there until 1902, when he removed to Faulkton.



    On the 13th of October, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss Susan A.

Kinnemon of Ironton, Wisconsin. To them have been born six children: Almeda

Jane, now Mrs. Breytenbach; Henry C., who now is a resident of Faulk county;

Mary F.; Ada A.; Theresa M., now Mrs. Wm. Lester, and Herald H., who now resides

in Illinois.



    Comrade Sprague is a member of Phil Sheridan Post in Faulkton.



    Politically he is identified with the republican party.



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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

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