Eihardt Fleitz Biography This biography appears on page 528 in "History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Joy Fisher, http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000031 . This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm FLEITZ, EIHARDT, was born in Baden, Germany, January 6, 1848. His early youth he spent in attending school, and boating on the Rhine. In 1862 he emigrated to the United States, and settled in Louisville, Ky. For awhile he was employed as a laborer in building forts at that place, and then entered a brewery and learned the trade of malster. In 1866, he enlisted in Co. D, 2d Battalion, 13th U. S. infantry, but the company was soon after transferred to the 22d Infantry, and he came to Sioux Falls with that company in June, 1866. On the 7th day of May, 1869, his term of enlistment having expired, he was discharged. The same year he took up what is known as the True Dennis place in Sioux Falls township, but sold out his interest in 1873, and then took up a quarter section of land about three miles north of the village of Hartford. In 1876 his crops were destroyed by grasshoppers, and he removed to the city of Sioux Falls, where he has since been engaged as a malster in the Sioux Falls Brewery. Mr. Fleitz is a quiet, unassuming man, and a good citizen.