Edmund J. Daniels Biography

	This biography appears on pages 503, 505 in "History of Minnehaha
	County, South Dakota" by Dana R. Bailey and was scanned, OCRed
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DANIELS, EDMUND J., was born in St. Albans, Vermont, November 22, 1855.  When 
a lad he attended the village school, but at the age of thirteen became a 
clerk in a dry goods store, and from that time to the present writing has been 
engaged in some capacity in the dry goods business.  For a while he was a clerk 
in Providence, R. I. but in 1878 went to Minneapolis, where he remained in the 
employ of Goodfellow & Eastman for two years.  He then entered into 
copartnership with Harry Hornefius, and in the fall of 1880 they removed to 
Sioux Falls and immediately commenced business in general merchandise on 
Phillips avenue in what has since been known as the "Checkered Front," under 
the firm name of Dan and Harry. The firm was enterprising and soon commanded 
a large trade. On the 8th day of August, 1885, the firm was dissolved by mutual 
consent; Mr. Daniels continuing the business. He did not commence business in 
Sioux Falls in a dugout, but the original little "Checkered Front" he first 
occupied would bear no comparison to the splendid store he now occupies, it 
being the finest and best equipped store in the city, if not in the state. 
He is a merchant in all that the name implies. Although a good citizen, he 
never meddles with anything but business. He is a thorough business man.