Turner County, SD Biographies.....Hurd, B. H. 1865 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

B. H. HURD, Parker's able and efficent postmaster, who is also engaged in the
practice of law at that point, is a native of Coesse, Whitley Co., Ind., and was
born August 26, 1865. He is the third child of D. H. and Julia (Van Meter) Hurd,
the former a native of New York, whose fore-parents came from England, and the
latter born in Indiana of German descent, and who died there when our subject
was but two years of age. D. H. Hurd now lives in Benton county, Iowa, where he
is engaged in agricultural pursuits.

   The subject of this sketch was reared in Indiana, and his early education was
received in the common schools of his native town. When he was seventeen years
of age he came with his father to Benton county, Iowa, where he assisted in
breaking up and improving the farm on which they located. He attended Tilford
college at Vinton, Iowa, from which he graduated in 1885, and then spent two
years in study at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, going from there to the college at Ann
Arbor, Mich., and graduating from the law department of that institution in the
class of 1890. After his graduation he went to Mitchell, S. Dak., to teach
school during the winter, and then came to Parker, hung out his "shingle" and
began the practice of the law which vocation he has followed ever since. He was
appointed postmaster by President Cleveland in 1893, and has been city justice
of the peace for three years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and A. O. U. W.
orders in which he takes an active interest.

   Mr. Hurd's marriage occurred March 6, 1892, when he led to the altar Miss
Alice Penny, a native of New York, and daughter of W. J. and Fannie Penny. This
union has been blessed with two sons, Leland S. aud [sic] Cato B. Mr. Hurd is a
Democrat in politics, and has been one all his life. He and his wife are
connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mr. Hurd is a member of
the official board, superintendent of the Sunday school and president of the
Epworth league.


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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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