Samuel J. Truman Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County (1906)", published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 55

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
	non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved.


Samuel J. Truman came to Charles Mix county in 1877 or 1878 and worked in 
the wood business on Pease "island" and elsewhere on both sides of the river.
He occasionally worked as a carpenter and in recent years has been farming. He 
has lived in the south part of old Charles Mix county ever since his arrival 
except a few years residing on the opposite bank of the Missouri, now residing
on the Geo. L. Kirk farm on Spring creek.