Henry Clay Byington Biography

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BYINGTON, HENRY CLAY, was born in Ontario county, New York, September 
15, 1853; received a common school and academic education and then 
clerked in a general store three years; engaged in raising fruit five 
years; came to Sioux Falls on the 30th day of December, 1882, where he 
engaged in the grocery business for five years and then was employed by 
J. G. Strahon as collector. He took up a farm in Brown county; traveled 
for B. C. McCrossan, the wholesale fruit dealer, for three years and 
then resumed his old position with Mr. Strahon until June, 1898, when 
he again opened grocery store in Sioux Falls.  He is an industrious 
man, a good neighbor and a good citizen.