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Subject: Sd-Faulk Co. Bios (Jarvis)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:19:46 -0500


Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Jarvis, George J. 1843 -
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Author: C. H. Ellis


GEORGE J. JARVIS of Faulkton, South Dakota, is a native of the Buckeye
state, having been born at Columbus, Ohio, March 26, 1843. He is of English
ancestery, his parents, George and Sarah Jarvis, the former of whom was born at
Staffordshire, England, and the latter at Brockelhurst, Sheffield, England.

In 1849 his parents removed from Franklin county, Ohio, to Baraboo,
Wisconsin, the trip being made in a prairie schooner, a very popular mode of
travel for emigrants in those days. They were lost for a day upon the Illinois
prairie. At night they were able to locate themselves fourteen miles north of
Chicago. There were no railroads at that time running into or out of Chicago. In
February, 1851, the family returned to Ohio, but after remaining there five
years, they returned to Wisconsin and engaged in farming.

On July 26, 1861, when eighteen years and four months old the subject of our
sketch enlisted as a private in the 3rd Battery Wisconsin Artillery, and served
through the term of his enlistment in the army of the Cumberland.

After his return from the army he engaged in farming. In 1867 he engaged in
the milling business. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar and actively engaged in
legal practice until 1881, when he removed to Minnesota.

In August 1883 he came to Faulk county, Dakota Territory, and took advantage
of the liberal United States land laws, and while residing upon his land and
faithfully complying with the laws in improving the same, he actively engaged in
the practice of his profession.

In 1895 he was elected county judge for Faulk county to which office he has
been re-elected up to the present time and is now faithfully and successfully
serving his seventh term.

Judge Jarvis is a republican in politics. He is popular with the common
people, especially with his comrades in the Grand Army of the Republic.

He is an active and influental member of Phil. H. Sheridan Post No. 72, at
Faulkton, South Dakota, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Judge Jarvis was united in marriage to Miss Diantha M. Nichols, a native of
Somerset, Ohio, and to them have 'been born the following children: Nellie A.,
born April 26, 1866; George L., born October 2, 1867; Harry J., born April 24,
1879; Fred W., born May 14, 1872, and S. Belle, born December 2, 1874.




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HISTORY OF
FAULK COUNTY
SOUTH DAKOTA
CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS

TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS

ILLUSTRATED
19O9

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