Turner County, SD Biographies.....Hurd, B. H. August 26, 1865 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OIF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

B. H. HURD, Parker’s able and efficient 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. and 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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