George Harper HAND

Father: Herman Alvah HAND
Mother: Margaret WHEELER

Family 1: Helen M. KETCHUM
  1. Carleton Harper HAND
  2. Helen Josephine HAND
  3. Stella Ketchum HAND
  4. Edgar Milton HAND
  5. Arthur Wheeler HAND
  6. Addie Grace HAND
  7. Lulu Eldridge HAND 
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 _Herman Alvah HAND _|
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|--George Harper HAND 
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|                                                                    _Samuel WHEELER _____
|                                           _Samuel WHEELER ________|_Abigail LACY _______
|                     _Aaron WHEELER Judge_|
|                    |                     |                         _Ephraim KIDDER _____
|                    |                     |_Chloe KIDDER __________|_Freedom BARNARD ____
|_Margaret WHEELER __|
                     |                                               _John HARPER ________
                     |                      _Alexander HARPER ______|_Abigail MONTGOMERY _
                     |_Margaret HARPER ____|
                                           |                         _Johan BARTHOLOMEW __
                                           |_Elizabeth BARTHOLOMEW _|_Dorothy ENDT _______
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DAR ID# 102730 Also 41664 According to the Doude genealogy, George H. Hand was Secretary of the Dakota Territory. Abbrev: The Descendants of Henry Doude Title: The Descendants of Henry Doude Author: Rev. W.W . Dowd, A.M. Publication: Hartford Ct: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company , 1885. Note: Secondary. NS198583 ______________________________ 1870 Census Yankton, Yankton, Dakota Territory Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: View Imag e Post Office: Yankton Roll: M593_118 Page: 152 Image: 302 Year: 1870 __________________________ 1880 US Federal Census Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mothe r's Birthplace George H. HAND Self M Male W 42 OH Secy Of Dakota NY OH Helen M. HAND Wife M Female W 40 NY Keeping House NY NY Carleton H. HAND Son S Male W 20 WI Student Mining School OH Helen J. HAND Dau S Female W 19 IA At Home OH NY Stella K. HAND Dau S Female W 17 IL At School OH NY Edgar M. HAND Son S Male W 16 IL At School OH NY Arthur W. HAND Son S Male W 14 WI At School OH NY Grace A. HAND Dau S Female W 12 DAKOTA At School OH NY Lulu E. HAND Dau S Female W 10 DAKOTA At School OH NY Nettie THOMPSON Other S Female W 20 NOR Servant NOR NOR Source Information: Census Place Yankton, Yankton, Dakota Territory Family History Library Film 1254115 NA Film Number T9-0115 Page Number 440A George H. Hand - bio This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/sd/sdfiles.htm( Should read: George H. Hand) GEORGE A. HAND, secretary of Dakota territory and acting govern or from the illness of Governor Howard until the appointment of his successor, a period o f almost one year, was born at Akron, Ohio, on the 9th of August, 1837. He was a lawyer an d served in the Civil war as a member of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery. He came to Dako ta and settled at Yankton in 1865 and was two years later appointed United States attorney . Later he was register of the land office and in 1874 was made secretary of the territory , a position he filled for eight years. After closing his official career he became the coun sel for the Northwestern Railway for Dakota and served until his death, which occurred whil e attending a session of the legislature at Pierre on March 10, 1891. _______________________________________________________ From: Political Graveyard (http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hand.html#RFY0O9B80) Hand, George H. (1837-1891) Born in Ohio, 1837 Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; Dakota territory attorney general 1866-69; U.S. District Attorney for Dakota Territory, 1866-69; secretary of Dakota Territory 1874-83. Died in 1891 . Burial location unknown . Hand County, S.Dak. is named for him. ______________________________________________________ Web posted Wednesday, September 15, 1999 The Press & Dakotan: A Living History BY BOB KAROLEVITZ For the Press & Dakotan The genealogy of the Yankton Press and Dakotan dates back to the early days of the territoria l capital. The first of its predecessors was the Weekly Dakotian, published by two young printer-journal ists -- Francis M. (Frank) Ziebach and William Freney. They had brought their Washington hand press and other printing necessities from Sioux City in two wagons -- one drawn by a span o f horses, the other by a yoke of oxen. They laid their cases in a log structure on Broadway and produced the first edition of the Da kotian with a dateline of June 6, 1861, although it actually came out two days later. As th e forerunner of the state's oldest continuing newspaper, it quickly became involved in the po litical wars of Dakota Territory, its rival being the Dakota Republican in Vermillion. On June 21, 1864, a second Yankton newspaper -- the Dakota Union -- was issued by two other Y ankton pioneers, George W. Kingsbury and Moses K. Armstrong. Kingsbury had left the Dakotia n after a feud with Dr. Walter A. Burleigh, the opportunistic lawyer-physician who then had a n interest in the paper and was using it to promote his candidacy for delegate to congress. Then, in late 1864 -- proving again that all is apparently fair in love, war and politics - - the two warring papers (both Democratic) merged to become the Union and Dakotaian, with Kin gsbury as publisher. (Note the extra "ai" in Dakotaian.) The peripatetic Kingsbury next showed up as a principal of another paper, the Yankton Press , which made its initial appearance on Aug. 10, 1870, from a plant located on the east side o f Capitol Street where the Gurney complex is now located. For it, Kingsbury and his partner - - James M. Stone -- imported the first steam-powered press in Dakota. By this time, strangely enough, both the Press and the Union and Dakotaian were Republican pa pers doing battle with the Democratic Yankton Herald. In the fall of 1873 the divided old-gua rd and liberal Republicans decided to close ranks, which meant that two party views were no l onger appropriate. Consequently, on Nov. 30 that year still another merger took place and th e first issue of the Weekly Press and Dakotaian emerged. Owners then were Kingsbury; E.M. Bro wn, representing the Union and Dakotaian; and S.V. Clevenger, an electrician who was instrume ntal in bringing the first telegraph line to Yankton. (For a time, the word "Union" appeare d in small type in the name-plate, but eventually it was dropped.) Within a year the ownership changed again. Brown sold out to Gen. William P. Dewey, the surve yor general; Clevenger disposed of his interests to A. W. Barber; and Kingsbury went off to C olorado to seek his fortune in the San Juan silver; mining region. Then, in late November of 1874, still another individual entered the picture. He was Wheele r S. Bowen, printer-son of Janesville, Wis., publisher and personal friend of George H. Hand , the territorial secretary. Bowen saw an opportunity in the Press and Dakotaian, then in hands of two men with little pri nting experience. He soon was able to buy out Dewey and Barber under the name of W.S. Bowe n & Company. Kingsbury, meanwhile, failed to strike it rich in Colorado and returned to joi n the new owner. While this was going on, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer had led an expedition of his Sevent h Cavalry into the Black Hills and in the process confirmed the existence of gold in the regi on. The wave of excitement this created was especially felt in Yankton, then a potential supp ly point for argonauts heading for the new bonanza. To furnish gold-seekers with news, Bowen and Kingsbury began to issue a daily sheet they call ed the Yankton Black Hiller. The paper was so successful that the two men began to conside r a new plan for their regular publication, and on the morning of April 26, 1875, they publis hed the first edition of the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotaian. With hand-set type and dot-and-dash telegraphic service which cost $150 a month, the publishe rs were faced with a tedious and expensive operation. The transmission of the daily telegraph ic report was extremely unreliable, and the Yankton publishers concluded that it was due t o a conspiracy in the Sioux City office. To complicate matters further, the printing plant was moved to a second-story room over Joh n J. Duffack's Boot and Shoe Store at 306 W. Third Street. Hauling newsprint, supplies and co mpleted papers up and down a flight of narrow steps was neither efficient nor practical. Fina lly in 1880 the plant was relocated in the new James A. Danforth building next to the Brech t & Purdy Drug Store on Third Street. When Yankton's steamboat fleet was destroyed in the great flood of '81 and the territorial ca pital was lost two years later, the town became known as the Fountain City as gushing artesia n wells promised a new water-powered future. To take advantage of this opportunity, Bowen an d Kingsbury again moved their plant, this time to a new brick building diagonally across fro m the Pierce Hotel at Third and Capitol. An artesian well there offered less expensive powe r for their press, an advantage which was to peter out when the water table eventually droppe d. In 1889 -- the statehood year -- the superfluous "ai" was eliminated from the paper's title a nd it became the Press and Dakotan. While other papers came and went, the P&D and the Dakot a Herald continued as major competitors until August of 1896 when the Daily Yankton Gazette a ppeared on the scene to support the candidacy of William McKinley and other Republicans. It w as edited by Doane Robinson, later to become the state historian. The confusion in the Press and Dakotan's family tree continued. Bowen became the personal sec retary of U.S. Senator Richard F. Pettigrew and withdrew from the paper. In 1898 Willard C. L usk came to town and bought the Gazette. In 1902 David E. Lloyd acquired the P&D as George Ki ngsbury began to devote his time to writing territorial state histories. Several months late r Lloyd sold his two papers as the Press and Dakotan-Gazette. It was to remain under that tit le until 1907 when the Gazette was dropped form the nameplate. A year earlier Lusk had joined with John Holman, Herman Ellerman and Gustav Kositzky to for m the Yankton Printing Company, a combination which included the Press and Dakotan-Gazette an d the Dakota Freie Presse. Turner Hall, the former German Turn-Verein building, then became t he office and plant for the two papers, and eventually just the P&D when the Freie Presse mov ed to Aberdeen. After that, Lusk published the paper for 37 years until his death in 1940. He had also purcha sed -- and closed -- the Daily Herald which had survived until 1918. Lusk's son, Bob, succeed ed his father until 1944 when editor Fred Monfroe became owner and publisher. The Press and Dakotan remained in the Monfroe family until January of 1979 when it was sold t o Stauffer Communications, Inc., of Topeka, Kan. In 1995, the Stauffer group was purchased by the Morris Communications Corporation of Augusta , Ga. In 1997, the Press & Dakotan entered a new age in communication by going online.



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