Turner County, SD Biographies.....Rundell, Eli C. May 1, 1858 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

ELI C. RUNDELL, one of Turner county’s plucky and enterprising farmers, who believes
that “sticking everlastingly at it brings success,” is a native of Iowa county,
Wis., where his father, Samuel Rundell, still makes his home. He was born May 1,
1858, and was reared to maturity in his native place, gleaning an education much in
the manner of farmer lads of his time, by attending the district schools during the
cold months, and assisting his father on the farm when his services were required.
Until he was twenty-four years of age he continued to make his home under the
parental roof, at which time he rented land and started in to farm it on his own
account, working in this manner for six years. In June, 1S87, Mr. Rundell arrived in
Dakota territory, and bought a farm in section 28 of Hurley township, which he broke
up and improved, and also operated rented land for the first three years. In
January, 1892, he sold out his interests in section 28, and bought the farm which
now constitutes his estate, in section 16, settling on it with his family in the
spring of the same year. The first year he broke 180 acres, which he sowed to flax,
getting for his trouble seed enough to pay for the threshing of it, and the next
year, of the 206 acres he had under cultivation, sowed to wheat and oats, he got
nothing, a disastrous hail-storm, which occurred July 5th, destroying the entire
crop. During 1894 and ‘95 he had somewhat better success, and at the harvest just
passed he garnered quite a good crop, getting fifty bushels of corn and oats per
acre, sixteen bushels of wheat, and forty-five bushels of barley.

As stated above, Mr. Rundell is a man of great pluck and enterprise, and, although
he suffered much from natural causes since coming here, besides losing many head of
hogs, in the breeding of which he is also engaged quite extensively, in connection
with his agricultural pursuits, he nevertheless does not lose heart, believing that
such times and conditions can not always prevail. His farm of 320 acres was all wild
when it came into his possession, but he was bred to the life of a farmer, and,
being a young man, full of life, energy and ambition, he set bravely at the task
before him, in consequence of which, his land is now under good cultivation, and he
is rapidly regaining the losses which he suffered at the beginning of his career in
Dakota. All the present buildings he has erected himself, and, in fact, all the
improvements in the shape of fences, etc., are the result of his labor.

To the lady who presides over the household affairs our subject was united in
marriage October 4, 1884. She bore the maiden name of Miss Nellie Hoskins, and first
saw the light of day in Iowa county, Wis., where she passed her girlhood, grew to
maturity, and was married. She is a daughter of Peter Hoskins, now deceased, but
formerly one of the prominent men of that section of the Badger state. Mr. and Mrs.
Rundell have been blessed in their married life by the advent of five children:
Clyde C., Harvey A., Ray, Leslie, and an infant on whom has been bestowed the name
of Millie. Mr. Rundell is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Hurley, being vice grand
master of the lodge, and, politically, he uses his elective franchise in the support
of candidates of the Republican party.


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