Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Stoddard, George H. 1857 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis
    GEORGE H. STODDARD was born at Brandy's Bend sixty miles from Pittsburg,

Pennsylvania, in 1857, the second son of Holmes and Ellen (Davis) Stoddard in

whose family were nine children. The father who was an iron worker, was born in

this country, as was also the grandfather, but the great-great-grandfather was a

native of England who came to this country prior to the Revolutionary War, and

when the colonies took up arms against the mother country he aided then as a

soldier of the continental army in achieving their independence. The mother of

our subject was born in England and came to this country when a girl of fourteen

years. Her father, John Davis, was also an iron worker.



    When three years of age his parents removed to Elmira, New York, where he

grew up to manhood and was educated, graduating from the high school at that

place. There he was engaged in clerking for five months and for three years was

employed as an iron worker. In 1878 he became connected with railroading as a

brakeman and held that position for four years.



    Coming west he landed in Faulk county, Dakota Territory, March 24, 1883, and

immediately took up a homestead on which he erected a claim shanty 10x12. Mr.

Stoddard started with a capital of seven hundred and twenty dollars. At the time

of coming to Faulkton to assume the duties in the office of register of deeds,

to which office he was elected in the fall of 1898, he was the owner of three

hundred and twenty acres of valuable land, two hundred of which he had placed

under a high state of cultivation and improved with good and substantial buildings.



    Since 1904 he has been engaged in trade in Faulkton as proprietor of a

general merchandise store and doing a good business.



    In 1885, Mr. Stoddard led to the marriage altar Miss Effie N. Deloy, a

native of Wisconsin and a daughter of Joseph Deloy, a farmer who was born in

France and was proud of his French descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard have been

born eight children, viz: George E., Chas. E., Mary E., Ruth M., Florence E.,

Clarence D., Grace Anna Belle, and Helen Gladys.



    Socially Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard are members of the Congregational church and

of the societies of A. O. U. W., the Woodman, M. B. A., and Degree of Honor.







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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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