Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Nevins, J. S. 1843 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis


    J. S. NEVINS was born February 26th, 1843, in the state of Vermont and

enjoyed the advantages of the common school education. Left Vermont in his

childhood with his parents to reside in Wisconsin. From Wisconsin he moved to

the state of Iowa. After a residence of fourteen years in Iowa he came to South

Dakota in the spring of 1885 and located in Faulk county, in what is now the

town of Sherman, about one mile from the present town of Onaka, where he has

since resided. On January 1st, 1864, he married Miss Margaret Kelley. To them

have been born two children, one of whom died in infancy; the other, Miss Mamie,

now Mrs. Wm. Crom, is now postmaster at the village of Onaka.



    Mr. Nevins has a farm of three hundred and twenty acres of valuable land,

ninety acres of which are under cultivation, good farm buildings, and well

watered. He now keeps nine horses. Eighteen months ago Mr. Nevins left his farm

and went into the livery business at Onaka, where he has a large livery barn and

has just completed a fine residence.



    He has filled town offices and was for four years one of the board of county

commissioners from the third commissioner district of Faulk county. Mr. Nevins

is counted among the best and most influential pioneer settlers.



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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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