Turner County, SD Biographies.....Gilbert, Gus 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OIF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

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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