Henry J. M. Dalton Biography

	This biography appears on page 505 in "History of Minnehaha
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed
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DALTON, HENRY J. M., was born in Lincoinshire, England November 26, 1853, 
and received a classical education.  He engage as broker in cotton at 
Liverpool for several years, and came to the United States in 1880.  He 
first located at Le Mars, Iowa, where he engaged in farming for five years; 
then removed to Luverne, Minnesota, where he resided two years, and came 
to Sioux Falls in the early part of May, 1887, accompanied by his brother. 
During that year they established the Queen City Bottling Works at Sioux 
Falls under the firm name of Dalton Bros., for the manufacture of mineral 
waters of all descriptions; and since that time they have continued to do a 
successful business. Henry still enjoys single blessedness, and is a genial 
good fellow, and a good citizen.