Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Arzt, Frank 1856 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis


    FRANK ARZT was born on February 17th, 1856, in Australia. In 1867 he came to

America and located in Clinton county, Illinois In 1879 he came to Brookings

county, South Dakota, where he remained until September, 1888, when he came to

Faulk county, and located on section 18, township 117, range 72 (Ellisville),

where he had a farm of three hundred and twenty acres. One hundred and sixty

acres he has lately sold for $27.50 per acre and has now the best quarter

section with good farm buildings, one hundred and forty acres of which is under

improvement. He also has a house and six lots in the village of Seneca. He has

twenty-five head of horses, twenty-five head of neat stock and has over five

hundred dollar's worth of hogs. Also a fine lot of poultry, consisting of geese,

turkeys, ducks and chickens. They have also raised for the last eight years an

average of over two hundred dollars worth of garden truck. Mr. Arzt is a firm

believer In intense cultivation, his wheat averages 16 bushels, oats 30 bushels

and corn 30 or 40 bushels per acre.



    On November 11, 1877, he married Emilie Matzke, who was born in 1858 in

Australia, and came to this country in the spring of 1877. To them have been

born eight children, seven of whom are now living, viz: Emma, Joseph, Marion,

Edward, Frank, Newton, and Emilie two of whom are married.





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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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