Dakota Territory was
organized in 1861.
The Homestead Act was
enacted during the Civil
War in 1862.
In
1872, most of the
settlers lived in the SE part of the territory or
along the Missouri
River.
The
Great Dakota Boom
that lasted from the late 1870s to the mid-1880s
nearly
tripled
the population of Dakota Territory.
South
Dakota was formally admitted to the Union
on November 2, 1889.
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The
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad came
into Miranda SD via Huron SD in 1886.
The railroad brought many supplies to Miranda, including
lumber, posts, wire, machinery, coal, gas, and kerosene. Mail came
in and out by rail.
The railroad shipped grain out, with grain loaded by wheel
barrow and ramp into boxcars during the early years. A
stockyard, owned by Phil Findeis, allowed cattle,
pigs and sheep to be shipped to other markets. Wool and
cream were shipped, with the wool being bagged for shipping in
the depot's freight room.
Some families and their possessions arrived by
rail, others by team and wagon.
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1873
Advertising by the territorial immigration
commission and the railroad companies
drew immigrants to "Central Dakota".
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Towns were platted by town
site companies which were subsidiaries
of the railroad companies, by private
entrepreneurs,
or by groups of settlers.
Of
the 285 town plats registered in Dakota
Territory between 1878 and 1887, 142
were platted by railroad companies or
their subsidiary townsite companies.
In
1886, Miranda was platted by the Western
Town Lot Company which was subsidiary of
the Chicago
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Chicago & North Western Railroad
Depot in Miranda SD.
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Miranda:
Stock
pens, 4 pens, 96'x96', with shed, scale
and piping $961
Passenger
and freight depot, built 1887, 1 story,
frame, shingle roof, 22'x64' $1,865
Outhouse
$141
Furniture
$411
Grading
$101
Platforms
and sundry items $250
Total
$2,768
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Miranda was the third station on the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad in Faulk County and was located eight miles west of Rockham and nine
miles east of the Faulkton.
Miranda Depot Agents:
(partial list)
Curt Landon
John (Jack) E Moul
1905 to 1937
F. P. Geyer
F. F. Varing
William (Bill) Gilbert
Ronnie Schorg
Miranda Section Bosses:
(partial list)
Richard Blauert
Clark E. Thorn (1930) for 13 years
The depot was used as a church part-time
until 1908, when the present Miranda
church was built. The waiting room and
freight room was also used as a
community meeting place, dance hall, and
men gathered to keep warm, visit, and
gamble.
The depot was shut down on March 15,
1958.
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The Miranda Hotel was built about the
same time as the railroad depot.
The Oleson Sisters were the proprietors.
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William Francis Chase (1879-1962) and
Clara Kempe
Chase (1888-1949) were married in Iowa
in 1906.
About 1917, they moved to Miranda. Francis
work in John Niemeyer's blacksmith shop.
A few years later, Frances, Clara and
their five children (Clarence, Leo,
Henry, Pearl, Florence) moved into the
Miranda Hotel building and used it as
their home.
Francis added a building east of their
home where he had his own blacksmithing
shop. Clara roomed and boarded people.
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First School in Miranda was probably
built in 1886.
The Miranda School was moved but still
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A two room Miranda School was built in
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In 1886,
Sievers country school was built in Hillsdale
Township,
SW
quarter of Section 20.
Originally
known as the Grabinski School. Land was
donated by Frank and Minnie Grabinski. The
name would be later changed to the Von
Ahn School and finally the Sievers
School.
Three
schools were
located in Hillsdale Township by 1910.
Rose School,
in the NE
quarter of Section 26; the Metz-Hogeboom-Hammond
or Prairie View School in the SE
quarter of Section 3; and Sievers School
located in the SW quarter of
Section 20.
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Ross
Country School
The 2nd Grade class at Ross School in
1940.
Corrine Metz
& Delores Pottebaum
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1892 homesteaders in Faulk County.
After the railroad reached Miranda,
lumber was much more available. Tarpaper
shacks became popular.
Early homes in the Miranda area were
built with lumber hauled by team &
wagon from Redfield SD.
Joe Pesha & Richard Blauert built
early houses in Miranda.
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Miranda Hall / General Store
Originally operated by
Charles D Pierce in 1901.
George A Haag (?- 1912)
married Laura Pierce and became a partner with
his father-in-law in
1904
(Pierce and Haag)
1901- 1919
Louis Sievers & Minnie House Olsen (Mrs Fred
Olsen) were clerks at the store.
Rochdale Company
bought the store from Pierce family in 1919.
Jennie Pierce was company manager in 1920.
Compliments of
R. L. Hagman
General Merchandise, Miranda, S.
Dak.
Robert L Hagman
merchant 1930
Robert C Hagman
clerk 1930
In 1946,
fire destroyed the building.
General
Store
In 1910, Seibert Brothers built a second general
store and meat market.
Ray Manbeck sold to Mark Stammer.
Mark Stammer, owner
Mark's niece Clara Von
Ahn
was a clerk.
In 1920, Mark Stammer sold the store to
Floyd Blauert.
Floyd & Ray Blauert
(Blauert Brothers)
1920 to 1969
 
Dale and Bev Wilkinson
(Dale’s Market)
1969 to 1984
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Miranda Pool Hall
This building was originally
a store operated by Dean and Byrne.
Rudolph Alexander was the proprietor of the
Pool Hall in 1909.
Marcus Stammer was the owner of Pool
Hall in 1930 census.
John Kemp was the proprietor
of the Pool Hall in the 1940 census.
Ed Shaver owned and operated the Pool Hall when
fire destroyed
the building in 1946.
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Miranda Bank was organized in 1905. J.A
Rouse was first banker.
Miranda State Bank (1905-1933) was
originally a cement block building which
was later replaced in the same location
by this brick building.
The cement blocks for the original
building were probably supplied by
Philip Findeis who owned a cement block
manufacturing business in Miranda and
was the Bank President and stockholder.
After her husband Fred pasted in 1944,
Clara Metz moved into town and lived in
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Town
Officers 1909 Arcade
Oren Strevel, H. Metz, and W. A. Milligan, super-
visors.
John Grau, clerk.
Sam Loy,
treasurer.
John Noble and R.
Alexander,
justices of the peace.
Arcade
Township Map 1910
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Town
Officers 1909
Hillsdale
M. Stammer,
Chairman of the board of supervisors.
B.
F. Ruhlman, clerk.
William Hogeboom, treasurer
John Christianson, assessor.
Hillsdale
Township Map 1910
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Miranda Methodist Church
was built in 1909.
Services were held in the Railroad
Depot and the
hay mow of the livery barn before the church was built.
Katherine
Gilbert Slater played piano and organ
for more than 50 years at the Miranda
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Henry
Sievers (1851-1932) &
Emma Rinder
Sievers (1862-1937)
About 1865, Henry left Germany to live with
relatives in Iowa.
Emma
Mary Rinder was born in 1862 in Dane, Wisconsin
and later moved to Iowa.
Henry
and Emma were married in 1879 at Rockford, Iowa.
In
1884, they moved to Dakota Territory and
homesteaded in Hillsdale Township, about
5 miles
SE of Miranda SD. Henry homesteaded the
quarter section where the Sievers county school
was built.
Henry &
Emma had 10 children.
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Charles
and Jennie Hammond family about 1909.
LtoR:
Hannah Frances Hammond Tanner (1893-1951), Grace
Hammond Bates (1888- ) (standing in back), Ellen
(Bab) Hammond (1902-1920), Charles Moses Hammond
(1866-1941), Jennie Lincoln Foster Hammond
holding William Lewis Hammond, Thomas Jefferson
Hammond (1897-1977) (in back), Clarrisse Esther
Hammond Gardner (1890-1977) (standing in back),
Millard Lincoln (Linc) Hammond (1900-1981) and
Blanche Hammond Alexander at Miranda Farm in
1909. Missing: Hattie M Hammond Hagman.
In
1885, Charles and Jennie homesteaded Section 34,
SW ¼ in Centerville Township, about 3 miles
east of Miranda.
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Samuel Tilford Tanner (1865-1951) and wife Matilda
(Mattie) Mahala Davis Tanner (1872-1926)
and their children Floyd, Coral, Myra, Clarence
& Milo came by train to Miranda from Iowa in
1908.
He farmed east of Miranda in Hillsdale Township
until he moved into town in the 1930s.
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Anna
Marie Stammer
(1884-1947), daughter of Mark and Augusta
Stammer, married Heinrich (Henry) Nicholas Von
Ahn (1874-1944) in 1903.
They had nine children: Marcus Wilhelm, Marie
Rebecca Fuss, Carrie Anne Knitt, Lester F,
Everett Henry, Edna Augusta Prellwitz, Florence
Amanda White, Clara Yvonne Drew, & Ralph
Charles.
Their kids went to Sievers country school. They
lived in Hillsdale Township.
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In 1886, the small
town of Miranda sprouted up with the
arrival of the
Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad.
Railroad Depot is on extreme left above.
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The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad had completed track
as
far west
as DeSmet
by 1879, Huron by 1880, north to
Redfield by
1882, west
to Miranda and Faulkton by 1886.
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1890
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Miranda Hall, The Pool Hall, Alexander Harness &
Hardware
Shop,
Blauert Blacksmith Shop,
and
the John
Niemeyer home. about 1902.
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Miranda, Faulk Co., SD - Business Directory 1909
Population 100
Alexander Harness & Hardware,
Rudolph
Alexander, proprietor
Pool Hall, Rudolph Alexander, proprietor
Atlas
Elevator Co., Coal and feed,
Philip Findeis, manager
Lumber and building material, Philip Findeis, proprietor
Miranda State Bank, Philip Findeis, president
Agricultural
Implements, Herman Grabinski, dealer
Real Estate, Henry W Metz
Miranda Railroad Station, Jack Moul, agent
Barber, Jack Moul
Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Robinson, pastor
Miranda Hotel - Oleson Sisters, props
Blacksmith & Feed Grinding, John H Niemeyer
Painter, Joseph Pesha
Livery Stable, Oliver Pesha, proprietor
General merchandise, Pierce & Haag
Miranda Postmaster, O.C. Riedlinger
Hardware, Tinner , O.C. Riedlinger
Miranda State Bank, J.A. Rouse, Cashier
J. T. Scrogg Grain Elevator & Coal, J. T. Scroggs, manager
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J. A. Rouse & C.A. (Clifford) Blauert 1888
Phillip Findeis
Michael Grabinski
R. C. Alexander
William Byrne
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First Elevator in Miranda. Henry W Metz
on right.
Built in the early 1890s, this building burned down in 1901.
Philip
Findeis
and Henry W Metz were warehousemen.
In 1902, a new elevator was built by Atlas Elevator and was
know as the Miranda
Elevator Company. It was sold to J.T.
Scroogs who operated it
for some time.
In 1915, the Farmer's Elevator Company of Miranda was
organized as a
cooperative and bought the elevator from
J.T. Scroogs for
$4,000.
William Byrne, Philip Findeis, Henry
W Metz, Charles
Moberg & W. A. Milligan
were on the organization
committee and the first directors.
William Byrne Philip
Findeis Henry W Metz
William A Milligan
In 1915, Philip Findeis was the first manager. J.C. McDaniel
took care of day to
day operations.
In 1917, Floyd Tanner was hired as elevator manager and served
until 1951.
The Farmers Elevator Co has built a new office and
directors'
room with an
engine room in the basement.
Floyd Tanner is manager.
1919.
The Atlas Elvtr.
here has been purchased by the Fars. Elvtr.
Co. who now operates two elvtrs. at this station. Floyd
Tanner is in charge of both elvtrs. 1927
Company showed savings of $16,246 on gross sales of
$534,578
during the
1949-1950 fiscal year, Manager
Floyd S Tanner reported.
Chester Deiter was assistant manager in the 30s.
In 1951, Nick Kranz became manager until 1967.
The large concrete elevator was built in 1958.
Clyde Ford was manager of The Miranda Farmer's Elevator from
1967 to 2000.
Dale Wilkinson worked at the Miranda Farmer’s Elevator
for
many years until his retirement in 1996.
The Kalkman Family now owns the elevator.
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Maccabee Band (The Miranda Band) 1903?
Back LtoR:
Frank Ruhlman, Richard (Dick) Blauert,
Fred Ruhlman, and Will Belau.
Front LtoR: Otto Kissner, Adam
Findeis, Oscar Johnson,
Phillip
Findeis, John Belau, William Hogeboom, Ed Alexander.
They practiced once a
week at the school house.
They
traveled
to play for dances, weddings, the Old Settlers
picnic
and 4th of
July
picnics including the picnic held every year in
Alexander’s grove just NW of Miranda.
In 1905, they led the procession in Faulkton for the laying
of
the
Faulk County
Court House cornerstone.
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LtoR: August &
Bertha Paul, Clara Paul Metz,
Lydia Paul
Metz (Nick Metz's
second
wife), Clara's husband Fred
Metz, Mammie (1861-1908)
Byrne, Mary Paul
Byrne &
husband
William Byrne. The five boys are Byrne's kids.
The girl
in front
and the boy next to
her are Grace Metz
and Neil Metz,
(Nick Metz's Children).
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1917 threshing crew for Henry W Metz. His sons, Walter
and Ervin,
are in the back row, 2nd and 3rd from the left.
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Threshing Crew near Miranda SD, early 1900s
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Miranda General
Merchandise Store
Seibert Brothers built the store in 1910. Ray Manbeck sold
to
Mark Stammer
who sold to Floyd & Ray Blauert in 1920.
Dale & Bev
Wilkinson bought in 1960
and operated until
1984.
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Main street Miranda after a funeral.
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Miranda
School 1911 -12
Front row LtoR: John Byrne, Milo Tanner, Walter Haag,
Carl
Niemeyer,
William Belau, Robert Niemeyer and
Everett Seibert.
Second row
LtoR: Frankie Coleman, Leone Haag, Mae
Metz,
Eleanor Moul,
Hazel Haag, Charley House, Ruth
Milligan, Ernest Belau, Jay
Seibert, Theodore
Byrne (up a
little) and Leonard Byrne.
Third row
LtoR: Etheal McDanel, Myra Tanner, Ray Blauert,
Edna
Grabinski,
Ervin Metz, (down a little
way) Katherine
Seibert (with hair ribbon), Mabel Blauert,
(down a little), Cal
Tanner, Walter Metz,
Arthur McDanel and James Coleman.
Back row LtoR: Wardon Moul, Coral Tanner, Noma
Coleman,
unknown cut off,
Cecil McDanel, Carl E. Etchison,
teacher, Raymond Byrne
and Mary E.
Faulkner, teacher.
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LtoR: Ervin & Irene Metz,
Charlie & Rose Mowry (Casey,
Iowa), Oscar & Mabel
Blauert Stammer, Marcus & Sadie
Von Ahn, Henry & Marie
Fuss. 1925 or 1926
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Sunday
School at Miranda Methodist Church 1941.
Back LtoR: Richard Hammond, ?, Stanley Tanner, ?, ?,
Harold
Sprague, Dolores
Tanner, JoAnn Pesha, Avis
Tanner Meyer, Marguerite Belau, Jean
Hammond,
Charlene
Hammond in front of Jean Hammond, Beverly
Metz
Brewer, ?,
Ruth Ruhlman Yada, Corrine
Metz
Anderson, teacher unknown.
Front LtoR: Teacher unknown, Doris Recker, June
Sprague,
Pauline Marker Wilhelm,
Dutch Gabriel, Harold
Recker, Jerry Alendad, and Marsha Alendad behind
Doris
Recker
and June Sprague.
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1942 Miranda
Kids
Back
LtoR:
Derold Vetter, Bud Wilkinson, Dick Chase, Dale Wilkinson.
Mid LtoR: Coleen Iverson Cox, Joyce Vetter Sprague,
Isabel
Beatty,
Ruth Ruhlman Yada, Janice Pesha.
Front: LtoR:
Doris Seely, Gary Iverson, Chandra Gilbert
Herman,
Georgia Ann Anglin Stammer,
Helen Moore,
George Iverson,
Carol Pesha Wagner, Rita Chase Hanson.
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Wilbur Meyer bought the garage in 1947 from John Gabriel
and
named it the
Meyer Oil Company. He bought and sold
old cars and especially
parted out cars
for sale. Wilbur
delivered fuel to many local farmers. He married
Avis
Steiner from Cresbard in 1949.
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LtoR: Emily
Belau, Louis Alexander, John Belau, Fred
Ruhlman, Samuel T.
Tanner, dated August 25, 1946.
John
(1873-1949) and Emily Belau (1874-?).
John was one seven children of John Sr (? -1901) and
Barbara
Belau who
homesteaded near Miranda in the
1880s and started what
became Belau Brothers of Miranda.
John Sr also started the first
blacksmith shop in Miranda.
Louis
Alexander (1877-1968) was one six children of
Rudolph
and Mary Alexander
who starting farming in
Rockham area in 1883. In 1893
the family moved to
Miranda.
B. F.
(Fred) Ruhlman (1860-1958) and Miss Sadie Sutton,
of
Miranda were
married on March 15th, 1893, at the
residence of the
bride’s sister, Mrs. F. M.
Bacon. Fred was
in the South Dakota Legislature from 1911
to 1916.
Samuel
Tilford Tanner (1865-1951) and wife
Matilda
(Mattie)
Mahala Davis Tanner
(1872-1926) and their
children Floyd, Coral,
Myra,
Clarence & Milo came by train
to Miranda from Iowa
in 1908. He farmed east of Miranda in
Hillsdale Township
until he moved into town in the 1930s.
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Miranda Kids,
circa 1950?
Back Lto R:
Larry Stammer, Dennis Mutsch
(peeking over
Bev's shoulder)
Bill Becker in rear, Terry Tanner, Roger
Gabriel, Virginia Metz,
Yvonne Gabriel, Rita Chase
(standing to far right).
Front LtoR: Beverly Becker, ?, ?, ?, Dick Benning, Barb
Benning,
Lousie Mutsch?
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Miranda (Gabriel) Blues Soft Ball Team 1950, coached by
Slippery
Gabriel.
Back Row: Slippery, Bus Yerdon, Rolland Miller, Duane
Olson,
Frankie Mauer, Elwood Biedler, Emil Gome.
Front Row: Dutch Gabriel, Chuck Bellman, Dick Hammond,
Duane
Martschinske, Fred (Buddy) Thomas , Doyle Deiter.
Not shown:
Walt Metz
Miranda (Gabriel) Blues Soft Ball Team
Back Row:
Walt Metz, Bus Yerdon, Rolland Miller, Duane
Olson,
Frankie Mauer, Elwood Biedler, Emil Gome.
Front Row: Coach Slippery Gabriel,
Duane Martschinske,
Dick Hammond, ?, ?, Doyle Deiter, ?.
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The final year of
school kids who attended at Miranda
School in 1970-71,
right before it was closed down and they
were all bused to
Faulkton School.
Left row Front to back: Jeff Anglin, Casey Skillingstad, Bill
Becker, Jr. & Jay
Wilkinson.
Middle row F to B: Mitch Melius, Carol Anglin, Lavern
Skillingstad, Dan Melius
& Cindy Meyer - standing teacher
Nellie Eldeen.
Right row F to B: Angie Becker, Michelle Becker, Deann
Wilkinson, Teresa
Meyer & Greg Anglin.
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June 2005 at the last service at the Methodist Church.
Delores Ford, Katherine
Slater, Avis Meyer, Dale Wilkinson
and Bev Wilkinson.
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A Civil war veteran,
Henry M.
Metz
(1846-1897) join the
2nd
IL Cavalry at
15
years old. He
was
wounded during his 3
year
military service.
In 1882, he came to
Dakota Territory and
homesteaded on
Section 22, SE 1/4 of
Arcade
Township about
4 1/2 miles SW of
Miranda
SD.
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In 1883, Rudolph
and Mary Alexander
homesteaded on the north 1/2 of section 20 in
Zell Township.
About 1893, they
purchased the Fred Bacon farm
just north of
Miranda. The current owner is William Becker.
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William A
(1861-1919) & Carrie (1868-1936) Milligan with
their children: Billy, Helen, & Ruth.
William first came to Dakota Territory in 1882
with his brother.
In
1903 William & Carrie married. In 1906, they
relocated to their homestead in Arcade Township,
Section 15.
William
helped organize Arcade Township and was on the
Farmer's Elevator Company of Miranda organization
committee.
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Adam Findeis Sr (1825-1905)
was born in Germany and came
to the US in 1853.
He served with the 1st WI
Infantry in
the Civil War and
was involved in ten engagements.
In 1874, he was
married to
Margaret Metz
Findeis
(1844-1911) (Henry
M
Metz's sister) in Illinois, and in
1883 they
moved to farm SW
of
Miranda SD.
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Cornelius (1857-1946) & Ermina (-1929) Hammond
Hogeboom left Wisconsin with their two children,
William and Thomas, in 1883, traveling by covered
wagon to SD. They homestead 4 miles east of Miranda in
Hillsdale Township. There they built a sod house
and experienced the hardships of early pioneer
life. By 1909 they had moved to Rockham where he
was in the implement business.
Philip Findeis, (1876-1960),
Cornelius
Hogeboom (1857-1946), Adam
Findeis (1877-1959)
William H Hogeboom
(1878-1955) & wife Emma
Findeis
(1879-1920) (daughter
of Eva
Findeis Metz and
step-daughter of Henry
M Metz)
farmed 4 miles east of Miranda
in
Hillsdale
Township. They had
three children: Clayton (1902-1975), Cornelius
(Neil) (1905-1974) & William (1913-)
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Henry
W. Metz (1876-1956)
(son of Henry
M. Metz) and
Anna T.
Alexander
Metz
(daughter of Rudolph
and
Mary Alexander) were married
on July 19, 1898.
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In
1896, Herman
Grabinski
married
Rosa Belau and filed a
tree claim 3 1/2 miles
SE of
Miranda and built
a farm site.
In 1907, the farm was
sold to
Marcus
Stammer and was later
the home of
Fred &
Amanda
Kempe
Stammer family and
later the
Wayne
Stammer family
and
is currently owned
by Dan Melius.
Herman &
Rosa moved
into
Miranda and
operated a
hardware
store and
sold
agricultural implements.
In
1916, he bought in
Hillsdale
Township and
with the help of
his son,
Frank, farmed until
1926.
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Frederick
Oleson (1883-1963)
and Minnie House Oleson.
Fred came to Faulk County Sioux City, Iowa
by covered wagon in 1891 with his parents, Nels
and Marie Oleson, and their seven other children:
Anna, Karen, Susan, Elizabeth, Frederica, Will and
Mable.
Nels
and Marie initially lived in a sod shanty. Three more
children were born: Ella, Lillian and Gertrude.
In March, 1899 Nels & family purchased a farm in
Arcade Township, the W1/2 of 9 which was later
owned by the Ervin Metz
family and currently the Kalkman family.
Marie died at the farm in 1899 when the youngest
son, Myron, was born. Nels died in the summer of
1902 leaving the young children.
The oldest daughter, Anna, was married to Oren
Strevel (1857-1915) in 1899 and, with his assistance, the
Olsen family continued to operate the home farm after
Nel's death. A son from Oren's first marriage
lived with them. Oren's farm site, which is now owned
by
Duane Martchinske
family, was just north of the Oleson's,
In 1909, the older Oleson sisters managed the
hotel in Miranda.
On March 19, 1912, Fred married Minnie House of
Miranda, the daughter of W. B. "Will"
and Maggie House.
Anna
married
Emery McGrath after Oren's death in an auto
accident.
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LtoR: Mayme Byrne, Mary Paul Byrne & William (Will)
Byrne.
William
Byrne
(1861-1942) was born in Linton Township, Allamakee
County, Iowa.
In 1882, he left Iowa and came to Dakota Territory with
his mother:
Bridget (Delia) Byrne (1837 or 39-1908)
homesteaded in Hillsdale Township,
section 7. Lived with son Edward. Bridget
immigrated from Ireland in 1854. She was buried in
Orient SD.
younger brothers:
Edward Patrick Byrne
(1866-?)
homesteaded and lived in Hillsdale Township,
section 7, Married Mary A.
Joseph L (1869-?)
homesteaded in Hillsdale Township,
section 7
In 1897, Joseph was postmaster in Miranda.
sisters:
Mary Byrne
(1858-1937?)
Katie E. Byrne
(1860?-?)
homesteaded in Arcade Township, section 26
Mayme (or Mammie) (1861-1908)
a school teacher in Faulk County
William (Will) J Byrne
(1861-1942) homesteaded in Arcade Township, just
north of Katie in section 26. Later moved to
LaFoon Township, in sections 34 & 35, 2 miles
West of Miranda SD.
Older brother, Frank M, was already in Faulk
County.
On the 15th of May, 1895, William Byrne married Mary
L Paul, who was born in
Muscatine County, Iowa, daughter of August Paul.
William & Mary Byrne had six sons:
Paul Byrne (1896-1945)
lived in Faith SD.
Raymond (Ray) W. Byrne
(1900-1963)
Lived on family farm in 1930 census
Lived in Billings, MT.
Theodore (Ted) D Byrne
(1902-1980)
M: Bernice Swartout
in 1923 in Faulkton SD
Died in Deadwood SD
Deadwood 1947
Leonard Byrne
(1903-1947)
John Byrne
(1905-1965)
Robert (Bob) Byrne (1906-1990).
M: Prudence Graversen Adams Byrne
Lived in Faulkton, SD
Died in Sun City, AZ
In the 1930s, ill health forced William to move to Billings,
Montana where he died in 1942.
Deadwood 1944
William & Mary are buried in the
Miranda Cemetery.
Back LtoR: Mary L Paul Byrne, Lydia Paul Metz,
Cora Paul Billing, Clara
Paul, Metz
Front: August & Berth Paul
August C.(1841-1916) & Bertha L. Shulz Paul moved from Iowa to South
Dakota in 1884, locating in Faulk county, where they
remained until 1894, when they moved to Virginia,
returning to Miranda in a few years.
Fred
Metz and Clara
Paul married 1906.
Their daughter, Dorothea Metz,
married Ralph
Mutsch of
Minnesota.
Nick Metz
and Lydia
Paul married
in 1906
(Nick's 2nd marriage),
they had a daughter Grace Metz
born in 1909.
Lydia was the teacher at Sievers county school, 1895
– 1896.
She
had 22 students:
Emma
Findeis (16), Adam
Findeis (18), Fred Metz (17),
Minnie Belau (16), Willie Belau
(13),
Lydia Belau (12), Herbert
Sievers (14), Alice Sievers (12),
Louis Sievers (9), Walter
Sievers (6),
Ora Grabinski (13),
Minnie Grabinski (11), Arthur
Grabinski (9),
Elmer Grabinski
(8), Ella Grabinski (8), Sadie
Grabinski (6), Freda Rose (14),
Willie Rose (11),
Lena
Breitenbach (9), Harold
Sprague (12), Ernest Czarnetzki
(14), Bruno Czarnetzki (11).
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Carl Kempe & Ricke
Lemke
Mowry Kempe farmed in Iowa
until 1909 when they loaded
their belonging on a box car and
left for Miranda SD.
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Richard
Blauert (1855-1921) left Germany about 1875.
Richard
and Lydia
Rinder Blauert were married in
Iowa in 1883.
Richard moved to
Miranda in 1885
where he built
a house for the family and
started a blacksmith and tool making shop.
Children:
Arthur
1888 – 1888
Clifford
Arthur
Blauert
1888 – 1964, Asst cashier at Miranda State
Bank. Moved to California in 1911.
Floyd
Armond
Blauert
1894 – 1978, World War I veteran, In 1920, he
bought Miranda General Store with brother Ray.
Married Luella Harmon Sievers in 1960.
Richard
Raymond (Ray) 1899 – 1976, Married Ruth Empey
of Faulkton. Ray owned several stores in several
different SD towns. Moved to California in 1960.
Mabel
Blauert Stammer 1903 – 1981, married Oscar
Stammer of Iowa in 1927. Adopted Wayne.
Before
the railroad arrived, Richard Blauert and Joe
Pesha built homes in Miranda with lumber hauled
by team and wagon from Redfield.
He was later the
section foreman
for the railroad.
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Marcus
(Mark) Stammer and
Augusta Kading Stammer
moved to Miranda in 1907.
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Walt Metz was longtime
resident
of Miranda. He farmed and
ran the beer joint. He played
baseball and
softball on
teams
from Miranda &
Faulkton.
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Mary Alexander & Eva Findeis
Metz (Henry M Metz's
2nd wife).
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Frank M. Byrne was born
in 1858 in Iowa. He
moved to
Dakota Territory at the
age of
twenty-one, ultimately
settling in Faulk County,
where
he became a farmer and real
estate
dealer.
In April, 1888, he was united in marriage with
Miss Emma Beaver of Kenton, Ohio.
They had five children: Carroll, Francis,
Malcolm, Joe and Emmons.
Frank M. and
Emma Beaver Byrne lived in
Miranda
from 1888 to 1900,
then they moved to Faulkton.
He owned twelve
quarter sections of land in Faulk county, Seven
quarters of the land lie together in one farm near
Miranda.
In
1912, he was elected 8th
Governor of South
Dakota.
Frank (and Emma) moved to Oregon & then
California for health reasons. He died in San Francisco
in 1927.
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