Faulk County, SD Biographies.....McDearmon, Merill S. 1843 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis
    MERILL S. McDEARMON is of a Scotch descent, tracing his ancestry to a period

prior to the Revolutionary War, when they emigrated from Scotland arid located

in Erie county in the state of New York. And when the Colonial struggle for

independence commenced they promptly took sides with the colonists to defend

their manhood against the oppression of the mother county.



    The subject of this sketch was born October 14th, 1843, in Erie county,

state of New York. In 1844, his father with his family removed to Chicago, Ill.,

where he grew up to manhood and there enlisted into the 113th Regiment, Illinois

Volunteer Infantry, which was organized under the auspices of the Chicago Board

of Trade in 1862, and served until June 20th, 1865, when he was mustered out of

service. His regiment saw active service, having been in sixteen engagements

with the Confederate forces; the most strenuous being the battle under General

Sherman at Vicksburg in 1862 and the capture of that city by General Grant in

1862, when he triumphantly marched into the captured city on July 4th, of that
year.



    Mr. McDearmon returned to Chicago after his discharge from the army. On

November 30th, 1865, there he was united in marriage to Miss Charlotte Ann

Russell of Chicago, Ill., and immediately took up his residence in Sterling in

that state. To Mr. and Mrs. McDearmon have been born five children, viz, Hattie,

who died when eleven years of age; Mabel, who died in infancy; Harry E., who is

a citizen of Faulkton and is married to Miss Nora Purcell of DeVoe, in this

county. (He is station agent for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad company in

this city.) Allie, now Mrs. C. A. E. Whitton of the town of Fairview in this

county, Ruby, who makes her home with her parents while for the last eight years

she has been engaged as stenographer and typewriter in the law office of Frank

Turner, Esq., in this city and is holding the office of notary public.



    Mr. McDearmon, since 1883, has been a resident of Faulk county, and

identified with its social and political affairs, and for four years was clerk

of courts for this county. He is a contractor and builder and has done a good

business in this city and the surrounding 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

19O9

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