Turner-Clay County, SD Biographies.....Shurtleff, J. H. January 6, 1833 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OIF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

J. H. SHURTLEFF, a retired farmer f now making his home in Parker, Turner county,
where he has a nice residence, is a native of Buffalo, N. Y., and was born January
6, 1833. He is a son [of] C. B. and Miranda L. (Adams) Shurtleff. The former was a
native of Vermont, supposed to be of German and Scotch descent, and was engaged in
farming and in the lumber business for forty years. He came to Dakota in 1866 and
located at Vermillion, dying at the age of eighty-five years in Ponca, Neb. His wife
was also, a native of Vermont, where she was reared; was of Scotch-Irish descent and
died at Vermillion aged seventy-nine years. They were the parents of eight
children.

J. H. Shurtleff was the third child and about one year old when his parents located
in Ashtabula county, Ohio. From there when he was about fourteen years old he
accompanied them back to New York state where he remained until he attained his
majority, and then in 1853, located at Mendota, Ill. He remained at that place until
1861 when he enlisted in company A, Fifty-seventh Illinois regiment, infantry, and
was mustered in as sergeant. In this position he served until March, 1863, when he
was made captain of the First Alabama cavalry. About a year later he was promoted to
the rank of major of the same regiment, and served at different times under Gens.
“Dick” Oglesby, Davis and Dodge, of the Sixteenth army corps. He participated in
over thirty-five battles, at one time was knocked off his horse, and on different
occasions had five horses shot from under him. He served as topographical engineer
and had charge of fortifications.

Mr. Shurtleff was married December 1, 1866, to Miss Mary J. Wirick, a native of Lee
county, Ill., and they are the parents of three children, viz.:	W. Arthur, who has
been for six years professor of penmanship in the Dakota university, in which he has
charge of the commercial department; Julia I., the wife of E. M. Purkiss; and S. H.,
a young man who is now a student at the University of Chicago. Mr. Shurtleff came to
Dakota January 1, 1870, and located in Findlay township, on a farm which he improved
and made his home until 1879. From 1874 to '78 he was the proprietor of the stage
line carrying mail and passengers from Sioux Falls to Yankton, Dak. Ter., and when
the town of Parker was located he established a grocery and meat market there, being
one of the first business men of that thriving town. He was also engaged in the
lumber and agricultural implement business at Aberdeen, which he conducted for some
time. He is at present the owner of two quarter sections of land; at one time he
owned considerable more property, but has since disposed of it. Politically he is a
Populist, and has attended every convention of that party from its organization to
the present time. He was one of the first commissioners of the county, being elected
in 1872, and also held the position of county surveyor for four terms. He was a
member of the- board of education ten years, and clerk of the district where he
resides many times.


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