William J. Carey Biography

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CAREY, WILLIAM J., was born in Waukesha county, Wisconsin in 1854; was 
reared on a farm and educated in the common school In 1873, he came to 
this county and settled in Red Rock, taking up as a homestead one 
hundred and sixty acres in section twenty, where he resided until he 
moved into the village of Valley Springs. He was for a short time 
engaged in the butcher business, then in the machinery business, and 
for several years in buying and shipping stock. He now resides at Sioux 
Falls, engaged in the same business. For five years he was deputy 
sheriff under Sheriff Sundback, and received the nomination for sheriff 
from the Republican party in 1892 but it was a close year for 
Republicans in Minnehaha county, an there was a popular independent 
republican candidate running for the same office, and Mr. Carey was 
defeated at the polls, although his vote was surprisingly large under 
the circumstances.  He has held various town offices, and was president 
of the village of Valley Springs in 1895 and 1896.  He is a man of 
integrity, energetic and enterprising, and justly popular with the 
people.