Turner County, SD Biographies.....Gilbert, Gus 1847 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

GUS GILBERT, the enterprising proprietor of the clothing store at Parker, Turner
county, is a native of Norway and was born fifty years ago. When he was
seventeen years of age he emigrated to America and went direct to Lansing, Iowa,
where he engaged as clerk in a general store. Five years later he removed to
Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and started a store for himself. He conducted a general
merchandise store there until spring of 1875, when he located at Swan Lake,
Turner Co., Dak. Ter., and established a general store at that point. In 1879 he
moved his stock of goods to Parker, and about 1891 closed out the business and
became manager of the South Dakota Echo, a local newspaper. He remained at
newspaper work for a year and then engaged in the clothing business, which he
has continued ever since. In connection with his clothing business he also
conducts a fine farm of 300 acres in Turner county. Mr. Gilbert has held various
public offices in the county. In 1888 he was elected county treasurer, has been
a member of the school board and was also a city-councilman when the town of
Parker was incorporated.

    Mr. Gilbert was married March 25, 1868, to Miss Carrie Eggen, a native of
Norway and a daughter of Jens Eggen. This union has been blessed with one son,
Julius C. V., who assists in his father's store. Mr. Gilbert is a free-silver
Republican politically, and socially is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
Master Mason degree, Royal Arch, Knights Templar and Shriner and I. O. O. F., in
all of which he is actively interested.


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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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