Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Loy, Samuel 1853 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 9, 2005, 7:37 pm Author: C. H. Ellis SAMUEL LOY, son of Samuel and Barbara (Henry) Loy, was born in Stinesville, Berks county, Pennsylvania, November 27th, 1853. The family is of German descent and was founded in the Keystone state at an early day in the history of this country. When four years old he removed with his parents to Schuykill county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared on a farm and attended the county schools, until seventeen years of age, when he returned to L,ehigh county and devoted two years to learning the miller's trade. His salary the first year was forty dollars and the second one hundred and fifty dollars. He was engaged in the milling business in Berks and Lehigh counties for six years. In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Janet Faust, who was of German descent and reared in Berks county. To them have been born two children, viz: Charles Samuel and Earl Richard. The oldest was the first boy to grow up in Faulk county and graduate in any school, he being a graduate from the Northern Indiana law school. On leaving his native state Mr. Loy in 1876 went to Kansas, where he was employed for one year as a house carpenter and during the following four years was engaged in the milling business at Fort Leavenworth and Nortonville in that state, then after being on a farm for one year, he removed to Faulk county, Dakota Territory, in 1883, and on the 15th of March in that year took up his residence upon the present farm, being the first to locate in that township. Mr. Loy has had a full share of the hardships and privations, with hail and storm of the early and inexperienced pioneer settler, with the nearest market thirty-five miles away. He has been actively engaged in farming and stock raising, and has three hundred and sixty acres of valuable improved land located four and a half miles from the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad station in the village of Orient. He has also four hundred and eighty acres of rented land in an inclosed pasture, and is wintering nineteen head of horses, seventy-six head of neat stock, forty hogs and a big lot of chickens. Upon coming upon his farm he built a house 16x22; additions were made to this until he had a comfortable home, a good barn, a granary 24 by 34, acorn crib 8 by 42, hog house 36 by 18, chicken house 40 by 15, and an artesian well 1122 feet deep with a good flow of water and 1200 feet of pipeing to carry water to his buildings and pastures. Four years ago a tornado destroyed his barn, thereupon a new one was erected, 64 by 64 and 16 foot posts, and in the summer of 1908 he erected a new house 32 by 32, two stories, with concrete cellar under the whole house, six rooms on the first floor and five on the second, and a garret with three large dormer windows, where four more rooms could be finished if needed, to which, another year, steam heat and all modern improvements are to be added. Mr. Loy is deeply interested in public affairs, especially on educational lines; has held several school offices. He has twice been nominated for county sheriff, and once for county treasurer, receiving more than the party vote, but the county being overwhelmingly republican, and he, a democrat, failed of election. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF FAULK COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS ILLUSTRATED 19O9 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/faulk/bios/gbs49loy.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/sdfiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb