Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1884-10-16
THE CANDIDATES..

y. IL. W eStoyer, OF Hughes county
nominee for councilman. is the Youngest
! candidate for Legislature. we believe. named
/ for this district. being 35 Years af age lie
was born on December %. 1916. in 0non-
| q aga county, n Y, from whence his family
removed TO Wisconsin, VIXEN he was five
months old. locating at Milwaukee. whore
/ they eouiinned 10 reside untii 1857 He
ggaGlmied at Milwaukee Academy, and
| hegau the study oi li,w ia the office Of his
( brother. mt t'conomowoc, Wis. IN 'T5 ne
WAS admitted to- the bar. and at once com :
lneHced p'atice with hts brother, ,suceediug
him in the Office ana business the neyt
ye9r. In the spriag he went To Chicago
and joined til firm oi SnuIeldf & West
over, which was an old established aud
lending firm OF the city. Here Dir. West
over renaincdactirel engaged in business
until the snring of 81. when from excessive
labor his health began to fail, and he
decided to come to Dakota. He settled on
u claim in Potter, from which county he
was elected delegate o the con institutional
convention at Sion Fails last September.
About the first OF October he removed to
East Pierre and established m Office, alter
ward taking in rs partner Ir. Robert b.
Fisk also an ableuttorn Y. f.r Westoytr
recaiYed his sur.o.t in bis OWN county
ne WAS representative of the people. aud
would stand by them III matters OF legisla-
ton.
James p. Day, the candidate for council
from Sphinx county was born in Alleg eny
county, Penn. of Scotch Presbyterian
ancestry, and is So years OF age. lie re-
ceiyed his education in the common
schools of his day, but being a great
on nj
now above the average OF those who have
spent their lives behind the plow. He re-
moved to Rock Island county, Ill. in 1853.
where he continued to reside until 1881
when be came to Dakota and located land
three miles south of Mellette He enlisted
in Co. "G.' l26 infantry, Illinois volrn-
teerS and served three Years till the close
of the war. lie was for toqy years Master
of The Coe Center CIllinois) Grange and
WAS member of the State Farmers Asao-
ciation. lie is one of Splnk Comfy sTep-
resentative farmers--owns GAO acres of
land. two-thirds of which is under culti-
vation,and keeps quite an amount of stock.
Mr. Day is PRESIDENT of the Sphinx County
Farmers Association, and Master of the
MelleHe Grunge. He is also the Director
of Mellette School Township and owns
stock in and is Il Director of the Meilette
IiNNttbI W. LINZ utpSt IA SOittit1S i. 4
Day Is strong supporter Of the party
that saved the country. He is an earnest
temperance man and early in life cspoused !
the religion of mis- father. 70 which sect he I.
still adheres.
MajorJ. A. Picker. Of Faulkton. Faulk |
county, was born in Indiana in the year
1911. He came with his father to Davis /
county, Iowa. at the age of nine years. /
working on the farm in the summer and /
attending school in the winter. At the age
Of Is years he enlisted in the war as a
private in Company ID. Ord Iowa Cavalry. !
served two years as private and non COM l
missioned officer. afterwards promoted an
out OF service, serving thr o ard
one Lalf years as Major. He then enter
ed upon u collegiate course at Iowa State /
Univer sity, graduating in 1870. After /
wards for three years published the Kinks 1
ville No. Journal. He ~ n graduate of !
the law departmen of the Michigan state :
University ut Ann Harbor, was prosecu-
ting attorney of Adair county Missouri