A. Edgar Dalton Biography


	This biography appears on pages 502, 505 in "History of Minnehaha
 	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed
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DALTON, A. EDGAR, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1859, and received 
a classical education.  He engaged in the foundry business for several years 
at Lincoln, England, and came to the United States with his brother Henry in 
1880, and located at Le Mars, Iowa, where they engaged in farming for five 
years; then lived at Luverne, Minnesota, two years, and came to Sioux Falls 
in 1887, and established the Queen City Bottling works under the firm name 
of Dalton Bros.  During that year he married his present wife, and now has 
a family of two bright children, and a pleasant, hospitable home. He is a 
kind neighbor, and a good citizen.