Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Jarvis, George J. 1843 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    GEORGE J. JARVIS of Faulkton, South Dakota, is a native of the Buckeye

state, having been born at Columbus, Ohio, March 26, 1843. He is of English

ancestery, his parents, George and Sarah Jarvis, the former of whom was born at

Staffordshire, England, and the latter at Brockelhurst, Sheffield, England.



    In 1849 his parents removed from Franklin county, Ohio, to Baraboo,

Wisconsin, the trip being made in a prairie schooner, a very popular mode of

travel for emigrants in those days. They were lost for a day upon the Illinois

prairie. At night they were able to locate themselves fourteen miles north of

Chicago. There were no railroads at that time running into or out of Chicago. In

February, 1851, the family returned to Ohio, but after remaining there five

years, they returned to Wisconsin and engaged in farming.



    On July 26, 1861, when eighteen years and four months old the subject of our

sketch enlisted as a private in the 3rd Battery Wisconsin Artillery, and served

through the term of his enlistment in the army of the Cumberland.



    After his return from the army he engaged in farming. In 1867 he engaged in

the milling business. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar and actively engaged in

legal practice until 1881, when he removed to Minnesota.



    In August 1883 he came to Faulk county, Dakota Territory, and took advantage

of the liberal United States land laws, and while residing upon his land and

faithfully complying with the laws in improving the same, he actively engaged in

the practice of his profession.



    In 1895 he was elected county judge for Faulk county to which office he has

been re-elected up to the present time and is now faithfully and successfully

serving his seventh term.



    Judge Jarvis is a republican in politics. He is popular with the common

people, especially with his comrades in the Grand Army of the Republic.



    He is an active and influental member of Phil. H. Sheridan Post No. 72, at

Faulkton, South Dakota, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.



    Judge Jarvis was united in marriage to Miss Diantha M. Nichols, a native of

Somerset, Ohio, and to them have 'been born the following children: Nellie A.,

born April 26, 1866; George L., born October 2, 1867; Harry J., born April 24,

1879; Fred W., born May 14, 1872, and S. Belle, born December 2, 1874.







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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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