Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Roseland, Gabriel T. 1857 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis
    GABRIEL T. ROSELAND was born in Norway, in 1857, and when fourteen years of

age commenced a seafaring life which he followed for ten years. In 1881,

arriving at the port of Galveston, Texas, he decided to leave the ocean for a

life upon the land. After a year with the Santa Fe Railroad Company, in the

spring of 1882, he went to Calma, Iowa, and from there to Wisconsin, where he

took a four year's course in the lumber woods. In the spring of 1886 he came to

Dakota and settled upon section 20, township 117, range 71, in Faulk county.



    In July of that year he married Miss Lizzie Linton who was born in Rondout,

New York. Her parents removed to the state of Wisconsin when she was but three

years old. To them have been born eleven children, eight boys and three girls

who are all living at the present time, To the quarter section of land first

taken, he has added by purchase eight more. Last year he sold from his stock

ranch between five and six thousand dollars worth of stock, and now has upon his

farm two hundred head of neat stock, fifty head of horses and thirty hogs.



    He is not only a successful stockman, but a practical farmer. In 1907 he

raised 1,300 bushels of wheat, 2,000 bushels of oats, 1200 bushels of speltz,

800 bushels of flax and 100 bushels of potatoes.



    He has a beautifully and pleasantly located farm residence, also a hotel and

several lots in the village af Seneca, the important • business center of

western Faulk county. Here we have an illustration of what enterprise,

perseverance, and undying faith in his own judgment will do in making a man

prosper in the settling and development of a new country.



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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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