Ovando D. English Biography


	This biography appears on page 523 in "History of Minnehaha
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed
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ENGLISH, OVANDO D., was born in Oswego county, New York, October 19, 1841. He came 
with his parents to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1849; graduated from the high school at that 
place and from Delton Academy at Delton, Wis.  He learned telegraphy, and taught it 
two years in a commercial college, and became a telegraph operator on the first 
railroad built out of St. Paul; established the office at Shakopee, Minn., and was 
the operator there for one year; was in the same employment at Red Wing for a few 
months; in 1868 went to Nashua, Iowa, and engaged in the furniture business until 
1872; on the 21st day of October of that year came to Sioux Falls and took up 
several claims on Nine Mile creek and in Grand Meadow township; for the next few 
years was employed in freighting and taking care of his claims; was engaged in the 
flour and feed business for two years in the city of Sioux Falls, and for six years 
was the telegraph operator at the Omaha depot.  He is now employed in the county 
auditor's office.  Mr. English is highly respected as a neighbor and a citizen.