YOUNG, Sutton E., was born at Hiram,
Ohio, September 23, 1847, was raised on a farm and educated at Hiram college,
where he graduated in 1871. For five years was the superintendent
of the public schools at Canton, Ohio, studied law during the same time
and was admitted to the bar in 1876. In 1877, was elected prosecuting
attorney of Harding county for the term of two years, and in 1879, was
elected a member of the Ohio legislature. In 1881, removed to Sioux
Falls, where he was employed as superintendent of the village and city
schools for three years. In 1884, formed a copartnership with W.S.
Wynn for the practice of law, and the firm continued until 1886, when he
entered into copartnerhsip with H.H. Keith under the firm name of Keith
& Young. In 1887, resumed his former relations with W.S. Wynn,
which continued until he left for Hiram, Ohio, in the fall of 1891; was
a member of the first legislature of South Dakota, and was elected Speaker,
for which position he was well qualified and gave good satisfaction.
During the last few years of his residence in Sioux Falls, if there was
any politics in his ward—in the city of Sioux Falls—the county of Minnehaha—the
territory of Dakota, or the state of South Dakota, that he did not take
a hand in, the writer is ignorant of the time and place when the accident
occurred. He was not always successful in what he attempted to do,
but he has always adroit, energetic and persistent in carrying out his
plans. He is a man of fine appearance and a good public speaker.
Since writing the foregoing Mr. Young has returned to South Dakota and
is engaged in a mining enterprise in the Black Hills, with headquarters
at Rapid City, but he recently removed his family to Sioux Falls, where
they were heartily welcomed by their many old friends.
ZENTEL, John, was born in Zenheim, Germany,
September 24, 1845, and while quite young learned the carpenter’s trade.
He emigrated to this country, and arrived in New York in August, 1865,
and remained there at work at his trade for three years. On the 1st
day of October, 1878, he arrived in Sioux Falls, where he has since resided,
and during the greater portion of the time has been engaged as a contractor
and builder. He takes quite an active part in local politics, and
is a man of considerable influence; is enterprising and well liked.
ZELITZ, Dr. Arne, was born in Stavanger,
Norway, June 16, 1864. He graduated form the high school in that
city, and then attended school in Germany for two years. He then
returned to Norway and studied pharmacy two years. In 1886, came to this
country, and located in Lyon county, Minnesota. From there went to
Toledo, Ohio, where he attended a medical college, and was graduated in
March, 1891. He was then employed in the college as instructor in
nervous diseases, and remained there until he removed to Sioux Falls in
January, 1894, where he has since resided, engaged in practicing medicine.
He was largely instrumental in the establishment of the Sioux Falls Hospital,
and through his effort principally, it has attained a creditable reputation.
He was county physician two years, has a good practice, and is esteemed
as an enterprising, upright citizen.