JOHN M. DENNIS, farmer and stock raiser. His place is below the Dakota Hot Springs in Fall River County, and he has one hot spring on his farm. Mr. Dennis came to this place in the spring of 1880. He was born in East Tennessee September 9, 1845.
JUDGE E. G. DUDLEY, vice-president of the Hot Springs Association, was born in Caldwell, Noble Co., Ohio, July 17, 1832. He was educated at Sharon College, the same county and was admitted to the practice of law in 1854, in Union County, Ohio. At the breaking out of the rebellion he recruited Company E, Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was made Captain of it. He participated in all the battles the first year, and then was made Judge Advocate. After one and a half years service in the latter capacity, he resigned. He has served as police judge at Omaha, Neb., and represented Douglas County in the Nebraska Legislature one term. He came to Deadwood May 30, 1876, and engaged in the manufacture of pine lumber, and was also engaged in mining. He moved to the Dakota Hot Springs in July, 1883, where he now keeps a house for tourists.
R. D. JENNINGS came to Crook City, Dakota, in June, 1876, and was made Collector of Internal Revenue for two years. He then engaged in mining and architecture. He came to the Hot Springs in the fall of 1881, and brought an interest in the springs. Mr. Jennings was born in Lucas County, Ohio, November 21, 1848; was raised in the same State and Iowa, and was educated at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
EDMUND PETTY is a farmer and stock raiser. He was born in Wellington County, Canada West, March 22, 1842, and came to Cheyenne River in the spring of 1879. Mr. Petty now resides at Hot Springs village, and is engaged in stock raising. He has forty horses and 300 head of cattle. He and his brother Joseph also have a livery, feed and sale stable at Hot Springs.
DR. A. S. STEWART, physician and surgeon, was born in Switzerland County, Indiana, August 2, 1839. He moved with his parents to Winterset, Madison Co. Iowa, in 1850. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, State University, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in February, 1864, and has since practiced his profession. He was a member of the Nebraska State Senate twice and twice a member of the House of Representatives of the same State; was also a member of the Nebraska Constitutional Convention in 1871. He came to Deadwood, Dakota, in 1877, and was Register of the United States Land Office from May of that year until December 1, 1881. He is Postmaster at Hot Springs, there being now a daily mail carried between Sidney, Nebraska, and Hot Springs.
GEORGE M. TRIMMER, farmer and stock raiser, resides on Rapid Creek, below Hot Springs. He came to his place in June, 1879. He has 160 acres of fine land, susceptible of irrigation. He is also interested in stock raising. He came to the Black Hills in 1876. He was born in Lexington, McLean Co., Illinois, November 8, 1844.
GEORGE A. TURNER is a cattle raiser, and resides near Rapid Creek, below Dakota Hot Springs. He came to Dakota in the spring of 1877; came to locate in 1879. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, February 14, 1858, and raised at Fremont in the same State. He has 800 head of cattle and seventy horses on his ranch.