Ogden Barrett Biography

	This biography appears on pages 438, 441 in "History of Minnehaha 
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed 
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BARRETT, OGDEN, was born at Patterson, New York, June 27, 1823, and 
lived in that state until 1837, when he removed to Janesville, 
Wisconsin, where he resided for several years.  In 1854 he went to the 
Pacific coast. On the 4th day of July of that year he was in Salt Lake 
City and heard Brigham Young deliver an address. After a few years he 
returned to Wisconsin, enlisted in Company C, 2d Wis. Cavalry, and 
served four years.  After the war he engaged in farming in Kansas for 
ten years. He came to Sioux Falls in 1878, and resided there until his 
death, which occurred on the 3lst day of December, 1898. He was one of 
the best known men in the city.