The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-05-27
LIFE OF A. S. STuYER
who Died On Friday Evening. May 10.
At Gas O'clock o.. m.

At Gas O'Clock p. m.
Aaron S. Stuver, a we'll known
and honored citizen of Kimball, S.
ID. Brule county, was a native of the
old keystone state, having been
born in Northampton county,
Pennsylvania, on the 5th. of Jam
uary, 1872, a son Of Charles and
Mary (Santee) Stuver, of whose
twelve children, ten are yet living.
The parents removed to Summit
county, Ohio, when our subject was
but Z years of age, and there he re.
ceived his preliminary educational
discipline in the common schools
after which he continued his stud
les in Hiram College, at Hiram
Ohio, that state, the late President
James A. Garfield having been at
the head of the institution at the
time. In August, 1862, Mr.. Stuver
manifested his loyalty and patriot
ism by enlisting as a private in
company ], One Hundred and Eff
teen Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
which was assigned to the Army of
the Cumberland, and he continued
in active service until the close of
the war, having participated in
in several important battles and
having ever been found at the post
of duty, while the history of his re-
giment is the history of his career
He received his honorable dis
charge at Murfreesboro, Tennes-
see, on June %, 1865. He retains his
interest in his old comrades in
arms and manifests the same by
holding membership in the Grand
Army of the Republic. After the
close of the war MI. Stuver went to
Illinois where he followed the voca-
ton of land surveyor about two
years, at the expiration of which he
located at Jasper county, Iowa,
where he completed a thorough
course in law, being admitted to
the bar of the State in 1871. He then
entered upon the active practice of
his profession in Newton, Iowa,
where he remained until 1880, when
he removed to Colorado and turned
his attention to mining and civil
engineering. On the goth of Oct
ober, 1882, he arrived in Brule
county, South Dakota, and the at
titude which he held in regard to
his mining operations may be un-
derstood when we revert to the fact
that he admits that any quarter
section of Dakota land is worth
o than an average mine in Col
orado. He has t.een actively en-
gagged in the practice of his profess
sion ever since coming to the
the county and he was also engag.
ed in the abstract business at the
the present time of his death hav-
ing maintained his home and bust
ness headquarters at ki1nball since
1883. He was at the present time a
:, o,,,nn1 of tho Mood
ers of the State Soldiers Home, at
ed to this position by Governor
Herried, in 1904, for a term of six
years. In politics Mr.. Stuver was a
stalwart advocate of the principles
Of the republican party, taking act.
i've part in the party councils in his
county and state. F~raternally he
was identified with the Masonic
order.
In 1872 was solemnized the mar.
rage of Mr.. Stuver to Miss Joseph
inc Hough, who died in Chamber
lain, this state, in August, 1883. In
1887 he married Miss Ellen Pratt
who was summoned into eternal
rest in 1896, the family home at the
time having been on a farm owned
by the subject near Kimball. On
the goth of June, 1900, Mr.. Stuver
married Miss Flora b. Weitzel, of
Warsaw, Indiana. He leaves no
children nor were any born of the
proceeding marriages. Mr.. Stuver
became a Christian in his boy
hood days and had lived a faithful
christian the rest of his life. He
was an active worker in the Presby-
terrain church in this city. He was
was ever ready to aid in the cause
of righteousness.