Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-11-04
THE CANDIDATES..


Somerset county, Maine; was educated
at Waterville, and admitted to practic,
in the supreme court of that state. Sool
after admission to the bar he came ives
and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
In 1857 he was elected to the Legislature
sf that state and was appointed one o
the members Of the judiciary committee
In the fall of 1858 he was elected dis
trict attorney for Milwaukee county. re
ceiving the entire vote of the county
both republican and democratic. Ir
1851 he went to the Pacific coast and
settled in Virginia City, Nevada. Upon
the organization Of that territory he
Was appointed by the governor district
attorney for the first judicial district
then embracing Virginia City and the
famous Comstock mines. This position
he held for three years and upon the
admission Of the territory as a state he
was elected to the same position which
he held for two years. In 1877 he came
to the Black Hills, where he has since
resided. He was member of the con
stitutional convention Of 1885. and also
of the convention of 1889. Upon the
admission of the state, he was elected
one of the supreme judges. and is now
the presiding judge Of that court.
II. q. Fuller was born on the 5th day
of January, 1851, at Glen Falls, n. Y
Soon afterward the family removed to
Jackson county, Iowa, settling on 9
farm near Maquoketa, where he was
reared and received a common school
education, together with such knowl
edge of the law as boy unaided could
obtain froEI the reading Of Blackstone
and Kent In 1871 he went to Eldora
Ia. aud after attending an academy foi
about one year commenced teaching
and soon became principal of the Union
public schools, continuing in that capa
city for several years and spending al
his vacations in the law Office Of the
Hon. Henry L. Huff Although al
mitted TO the bar in March of 1881, he
thereafter served two terms as county
superintendent Of the Hardin county
schools, and, as the nominee of all peli
tical parties was re elected for third
term, which he declined to accept and
came TO Dakota in the spring of 1886
for the porpose of resuming the practice
Of law. In 1889 he was elected Judge Of
the sixth judicial circuit and was re-
elected in 1893 but resigned on the 18Th
OF January 1894, to take the place he
now holds on the supreme bench, mrde
vacant by the death of the Hon. John
+. Bennett.
Dick HaLey was born at Lansing, Ia.
in 1852. His early education was &C
quired at home under his fathers super
vision and in select schools. He at
tended the Iowa Wesleyan University
three years. He graduated from the
law department Of the Iowa State Uni,
versity in 1874. and soon after he en-
gagged in the practice Of law at Lansing
Ia, where he remained until 1885, wher
he came to Plankington, Dakota Terri
tory, where he practiced until the ad
mission Of Sonth Dakota. In 1888 he
was elected district attorney Of Aurora
county without opposition Was elect
ed circuit Judge of the fourth circuit in
1889; renominated by the republican
circuit convention by acclamation and
re elected circuit judge in 1898 and ap
pointed supreme Judge by Governor
Charles II. Sheldon, February l, 1896, 10
Gil the vacancy caused by the resigna,
tion Of Judge A. G. Kellam. He was q
democrat until 1884 when he joined the
republican party, being delegate to the
republican state convention Of Iowa in
that year. Since attaining his majority
his time and talents have been excu
sively devoted TO his chosen profession,
without any effort to secure political
preferment outside of the judiciary. He
was nominated at the late republican
state convention by acclamation without
the slightest effort or his part to secure
a nomination.