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Chales N. Herreid

Chales Nelson Herreid (20.10.1857 i Madison, Wisconsin – 6.7.1928 i Aberdeen, Sør-Dakota) var sønn av Nels Olson Herreid (16.1.1832 i Eidfjord, Hordaland,-30.6.1902 i Ettrick, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin) og Thone Kittelson (18.2.1833 i Telemark- 11.9.1908 i Hegg, Trempealeau, Wisconsin).

Farfar: Ole Gulbrandson Skiftinghaugen (1803-1886) og Ragna Tomasdtr Herreid (1805-1885) begge døde i Ettrick.

His father, Nels Herreid, was one of our earliest settlers and a prominent man in Ettrick, met a sudden death about 4 p.m. last Monday. He was engaged in loading hay on a wagon in the field and when there was about half a load on, he accidentally fell backward to the ground striking on his head, and it is supposed his neck was broken by the fall, as he died almost instantly, without uttering a word. Deceased was about 70 years old.

He was the father of 1. Governor Charles Herreid of South Dakota; 2. Henry N. Herreid of Galesville, Chicago and Faniels, MT (1861-1922) married Martha Henderson (1863-1923) of Ettrick, they moved to MT and Mesdames 3. Katherine Ragna, Mrs Sven Hendrick (Swenson) Dale 4. Helen Bergitte, Mrs Iver Hendrick Svendson (1866) and 5. Nellie, Mrs Thomas Thompson Odegard of this place.


Chales Nelson Herreid gikk på Galesville University i Wisconsin fra 1874 til 1878 og the University of Wisconsin fra 1880 to 1882.

Han ble gift 1882 med Eunice Jeannette Slye (februar 1860 i Mindoro, La Crosse County, Wisconsin- 6.7.1940 i Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa), datter av.

Barn: Grace May Herreid Ligthner (14.5.1885 i Leola, McPherson County - 24.10.1963 i Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa), Roscoe Conkling Herreid (10.1.1888 i South Dakota, 5.2.1903 i Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota)

Samme år (1882) flyttet han til Dakota Territory. Der var han dommer i McPherson County Court judge fra 1888 til 1891.

Han ble den fjerde guvernør i Sør-Dakota.

Karriere;

Herreid was elected Lieutenant Governor of the new State of South Dakota from 1892 to 1896. He chaired the Republican State Central Committee from 1898 until 1900, when he was elected governor. Herreid, a Republican from Eureka, South Dakota, served from 1901 to 1905. He had previously served as the third Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota from 1893 to 1897 under Governor Charles H. Sheldon.

During Herreid's first gubernatorial term, efforts were made to reform the state's penal code, and a reduction in railroad rates helped ease the plight of farmers. Herreid worked for growth in state schools, Indian care and the development of good roads during his term as governor. During his second term, big business interests were brought under control, as was the power of political machines.

Herreid declined to run for a third term, returning to his law practice in Aberdeen, South Dakota. In addition to his political activism and engagement in the practice of law, during his lifetime, Herreid was director of the Western Mutual Life Insurance Company, president of Citizens Trust and Savings Bank, Federal Food Administrator for South Dakota, chairman of the South Dakota Military Training Camps Association, trustee of the University of Wisconsin, and a member of the Board of Regents for Education for South Dakota. He also served as a member of the South Dakota committee of the Red Cross.

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