Lincoln County, SD Biographies.....Wilkinson, Walter H. 1851 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

HON. WALTER H. WILKINSON, of Lennox, Lincoln county, is a native of Wisconsin
and was born near Oshkosh in 1851. His father, Jebus Wilkinson, was a native of
Somersetshire, England, where he was reared to maturity and married, bringing
his wife to the new world about 1848, and becoming a pioneer in the state where
our subject was born. He was subsequently married after the death of his first
wife, by whom he was the parent of three children, and from the latter union
there was one daughter, Ada, now the wife of Galen B. Young, of Lincoln county.

   Walter was the second child, and but four years old when he was deprived of a
mother's care. In 1854 his father removed to Dubuque county, Iowa, and located
at Dyersville, and there our subject grew to manhood and received a practical
education in the common schools. In 1872, when he had attained his majority, he
came to Lincoln county, Dak. Ter., and homesteaded a quarter section of land
which he improved and farmed on for ten years. He is now the owner of over two
sections, all of which has been accumulated by his own industry since coming to
the county. He has been actively engaged in the grain business since 1883 and
has handled his share of that commodity coming to the town of Lennox. In 1882 he
established a hardware store but sold out in February, 1890, and started a
lumber yard, which is now known as and conducted by the F. M. Slagle Lumber
company. He was engaged in the lumber trade for about a year when he sold out
and has since then devoted his time to the buying and selling of real estate and
the loan business, in the latter, however, he handles only his own capital. Mr.
Wilkinson politically has at all times affiliated with the Democratic party, and
under President Cleveland's first administration served as postmaster of Lennox.
In 1896 he was nominated for state senator on the Democratic ticket, secured the
endorsement of the People's party, and was elected by a good majority. He is a
member of the Democratic state central committee and in all political matters
takes an active part. Socially he belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and Lennox
lodge No. 35, A. F. & A. M.

    In July, 1877, Mr. Wilkinson was married, Miss Lena Schultz, a daughter of
John Schultz, being the bride, and this union has been blessed by the advent of
two children -Harry B. and Ella M.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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