Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Thorn, William Springate 1857 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis
    WILLIAM SPRINGATE THORN was born in Hillsdale county, Michigan, June 20th,

1857, where he remained; with his mother until his marrriage, December 1st,

1880. His father gave up his life in the Union Army in 1864.



    To Mr. and Mrs. Thorn have been born five children. Nina, now Mrs. Samuel E.

Chapman of DeVoe; Wilford Springate, Montgomery C., Laura A., and Lester Price.



    Upon coming to Faulk county in the spring of 1886, he was located by the

author of this history on a preemption on section 19, township 118, range 72. As

soon as he could prove up his preemption, he took a homestead and a tree claim,

both of these he has proved up and now has three quarter sections of valuable

land, upon which he resides, about one and one half miles west of the village of

Seneca. One hundred and seventy acres of this land is tinder cultivation, the

remainder is a fenced pasture of native grasses. He now has fourteen horses,

fifty head of neat stock, all necessary improved farm machinery, good farm

buildings, and his last year's crop in the granary.



    Mr. Thorn came to Dakota with less than one thousand dollars. Now he has

property worth $25,000.00 and stands among Faulk county's prosperous and

influential farmers.



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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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