Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Skie, Hans A. 1845 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

HANS A. SKIE is one of the men who profit by tilling the soil and raising stock in
Lincoln county. The portion of Grant township to which he holds title, consists of
320 acres on section 14, his original claim, to which he has added by purchase 200
acres more, making 520 acres, the most of which he attends to himself.

Our subject first saw the light in Norway, near the capital city of Christiania in
1845. In his native land he was reared to manhood, surrounded by home influences,
and in the common schools acquired a good, practical education. From his seventeenth
year he followed a sea-faring life, crossing the Atlantic as a sailor on some
fifteen different occasions, but it was not until 1870 that he decided to make a
permanent home in the land of the free. That year, however, he located at Decorah,
Iowa, remaining there four or five years, and then came to Lincoln county, Dak.,
entering a timber as well as a homestead claim. His first place of shelter was a sod
shanty, which he erected and lived in until 1876, then he constructed a larger house
of the same material, and was married to Miss Bertie Hervig, a young lady, who came
to Lincoln county that same year. As man and wife they took up their place of abode
in the primitive sod cabin, and, besides the hardships naturally the lot of a
settler in a comparatively new country, they were destined to suffer many other
privations and discouragements, having their crops devastated by grasshoppers and
prairie fires in summer, and in winter isolated from the rest of the community by
heavy snow storms and severe blizzards. Mr. and Mrs. Skie have been blest with a
family of three children - Andrew, Henry, and Matilda, and all the family are devout
Christians, and members of the Lutheran church. Politically, our subject stanchly
supports the doctrines of the Republican party. No man stands higher in the respect
of his fellow citizens; he has been influential in public affairs, taking an
intelligent interest in all that concerned his locality, and his public spirit has
helped to forward many plans devised for its advancement. He has been honored at
different times with all the offices of the township in the gift of the people, has
served on the school board since its organization, and is now a director of the
Mutual Fire Insurance company of Lincoln county, a local company established for the
insuring of farmers’ property in the vicinity of its office.

Mr. Skie was the only one of the parental family who came to America, and in 1S91 he
decided to pay a visit to the land of his birth. He accordingly embarked for his
native country, and landed at his destination. Things naturally had changed since he
was there last, but the greatest misfortune he was called upon to endure, was the
death of his father, who had passed beyond the dark river to the shore from whence
no traveler returns, during his period of absence. The aged mother still survives
and lives in the old country, where also the brothers and sisters of our subject
reside on farms with their families. The children besides Hans A., who was the
eldest, are Andrew, Bernt, John and Mattie, who is the wife of Edward Erickson.


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