Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Whitney, Selwyn 1847 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis


    SELWYN WHITNEY was born January, 1847, in Allegany county, New York. At the

age of 21 he went to Madison, Wisconsin. After a few years residence in Illinois

and Kansas, he returned to Rockford, Illinois, where, on October 8th, 1874, he

married Miss Louisa Weeks and to them have been born five children.



    After ten years residence at Rockford he again visited Iowa and Kansas, and

made a five year residence at Beatrice, Nebraska, but in 1883 came to Faulk

county where he has settled down for a permanent home.



    He is a citizen of the town of Elroy, is chairman of the board of

supervisors and is also on the school board and is active in all public affairs.



    Mr. Whitney has one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land, eighty-five

acres under cultivation and the balance is an enclosed pasture of native grasses.



    Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have now five children living, one is married, one son

who he claims is a native Dakotian, born in 1888, the year of the terrible

blizzard, January 14th of that year. He stands six feet and one inch in his

stockings and weighs 190 pounds.







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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



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