Turner County, SD Biographies.....McLoughlin, Miles December 21, 1846 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

MILES McLOUGHLIN, one of Turner county’s prominent and well-known citizens who has a
pleasant home in section 15, Germantown township, was born December 21, 1846, in
Roachdale, England, and was the only son of Mathias and Eleanor (Dillon) McLoughlin,
who were also natives of the British islands. They emigrated to America in 1848 and
located at Grafton, Worcester Co., Mass. He was an engineer by occupation and had
charge of the stove works at Saundersville in the same county. They came to Clayton
county, Iowa, in 1857 and settled on a farm in Cox Creek township, where Mrs.
McLoughlin died at the age of sixty years. Mr. McLoughlin lived to be seventy-six
years old, passing away at his son’s home in Turner county, S. Dak.

Miles was two years old when his parents located in America. The first school he
attended was that of the district where he lived in Massachusetts, and this he
supplemented with a term at a college near Baltimore, Md. He was married in Iowa and
in 1870, with his wife, located at Luverne, Minn., shortly afterward coming back to
Iowa, and in 1875 returning to Luverne, where he rented a farm which he carried on
for about a year. He hauled the stone for the foundation of the first brick building
erected in Luverne. In November, 1877, Mr. McLoughlin entered the north half of
section 15 in what is now Germantown towmship, Turner Co., S. Dak., and there he
resided until he sold out and purchased the quarter section on which he has since
lived. He made the farm his home until 1889 when he was appointed librarian and
teacher of the South Dakota penitentiary at Sioux Falls. He held that position for
four years and in 1894 returned to his home in Turner county, where he has resided
ever since.

The subject of this sketch was first united in marriage in 1866, in Clayton county,
Iowa, to Miss Mary McDermott, a native of Ohio, and by this union they were the
parents of nine children, five of whom are living, as follows: Irene, Thomas, Julia,
Fletcher and Katie. Mrs. McLoughlin died July 20, 1885, and he subsequently married
Mary Krueger in March, 1892. She is a native of the state of Pennsylvania, and came
with her parents to Iowa, when eight years old. Mr. McLoughlin has been a life-long
Republican in politics. While a resident of Minnesota he was the first justice of
the peace of Mound township, Rock county, and the second clerk of that township,
which position he held for a year prior to his coming to Dakota. So well did he
discharge the duties of his office that the township board refused to accept his
resignation. In 1880 he was appointed deputy assessor and census enumerator for
Turner county, and in 1884 was nominated for sheriff of the same county, but was
defeated by only six votes. In this connection it should be also stated that Mr.
McLoughlin has always taken an active interest in educational matters ever since he
taught his first term of school in Clayton, Iowa, when he was sixteen years old, and
is still actively engaged in that calling. He was one of the first school officers
of the northeast part of Turner county, and organized the first school in the
township. This institution of learning was conducted in the home of a Mrs. Pullen,
she receiving as remuneration $1 5 per month for the room used, furnished, and each
patron supplied seats for their respective children. He also built the first
building erected especially for school purposes, hauling the lumber from Lennox. The
site of the school house was on section 10, of Germantown township, and the first
pupils had a Miss Penny for instructor, our subject teaching during the winter
term.

Mr. McLoughlin is a self-made man, intelligent, well educated and informed on
current topics. He has met and conquered trials and temptations and has the esteem
and respect of all who know him. In 1887 he had the misfortune to lose heavily by
fire, which consumed almost all his personal effects; but he was not discouraged,
and has by industry, perseverance and economy regained a strong foothold on the road
to prosperity. In 1864 he enlisted on the call of the President for troops, but up
to the close of the war was not assigned to any regiment. Socially he is a member of
the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F. at Lennox. He was instrumental in having the
lodge of the latter order located at Lennox, and was one of its charter members.
Religiously he is a free-thinker, and belongs to no particular denomination.


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