Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), p 1476.
ROSWELL BOTTUM, one of the leading real-estate men of Aberdeen, was born in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, on the 3d day of August, 1857. He spent his boyhood and youth in his native state and attended for a number of years the public schools, supplementing the training thus received by a course in Ripon College. leaving that institution, he engaged in teaching, which profession he followed in Wisconsin for a period of three years, and at the expiration of that time came to South Dakota, locating in Spink county in 1879, and took up a homestead near the town of Redfield. When that county was set apart as an independent jurisdiction, Mr. Bottum took an active part in its organization, which being effected, he was appointed county treasurer, holding the office one term. He discharged his official functions in an eminently satisfactory manner, in addition to which he also exercised a potent influence in shaping county affairs generally, the meanwhile devoting all of his leisure to the improvement of his homestead, which increased greatly in value as the country became more thickly populated. After living on his place for about six years, he removed to Faulkton, Faulk county, where, in partnership with his brother, J. H. Bottum, he established the Citizens Bank, of which he was cashier during the four years of the institution's existence. Disposing of his interests in Faulkton, Mr. Bottum, in 1892, changed his residence to Watertown, where he was engaged in the real-estate business until 1896, when he found a larger and more favorable field in the city of Aberdeen.
Since the latter year Mr. Bottum has built up a large and prosperous business, which includes the handling of all kinds of city and country real estate in many of the best counties of South Dakota, besides acting as agent for F. R. Clement, of Minneapolis, whose extensive landed interests in this state are subject to his management. He has consummated a number of large deals, for which liberal commissions were received, and his patronage has steadily grown, until in magnitude and importance his business now compares favorably with that of the most successful agencies of the kind in the state.
Mr. Bottum is a thirty-second-degree Scottish-rite Mason, and has been honored with a number of high official positions in the brotherhood; he is an active worker in the lodge at Aberdeen and like all true members of the mystic tie, endeavors to square his life and control his conduct according to its precepts.
Mr. Bottum is a married man and the father of two children, a son, Frank, and a daughter by the name of Margaret. His wife was formerly Miss Alla A. Beardsley, of Redfield, South Dakota, and the ceremony by which her name was changed to the one she now so worthily wears took place in that town on the 23d of August, 1887.
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BOTTUM, Roswell (b. August 3, 1857 Fond du Lac County, WI; d. 1950 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) A leading real-estate man in South Dakota, Bottum grew up in Wisconsin and was educated in public schools. He taught school in Wisconsin for a few years before relocating to Spink County, South Dakota in 1879, settling in Redfield. While there he served as county treasurer and was a great influence in shaping country affairs. Around 1885 Bottum moved to Faulkton and partnering with his brother J.H. Bottum, they established the Citizen's Bank where he served as cashier for four years. In 1892 he relocated to Watertown and engaged himself in real estate for four years before leaving for the bigger city of Aberdeen. While in Aberdeen, Bottum built a prosperous business handling city and country real estate in South Dakota while acting as an agent for another party in Minnesota. Bottum had worked as an attorney heading the litigation section of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington before working with his brother. Bottum was married to Alla A. Beardsley (b. 1857; d. 1922) and together they had two children.
ROSWELL BOTTUM, one of the leading real-estate men of Aberdeen, was born in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, on the 3d day of August, 1857. He spent his boyhood and youth in his native state and attended for a number of years the public schools, supplementing the training thus received by a course in Ripon College. leaving that institution, he engaged in teaching, which profession he followed in Wisconsin for a period of three years, and at the expiration of that time came to South Dakota, locating in Spink county in 1879, and took up a homestead near the town of Redfield. When that county was set apart as an independent jurisdiction, Mr. Bottum took an active part in its organization, which being effected, he was appointed county treasurer, holding the office one term. He discharged his official functions in an eminently satisfactory manner, in addition to which he also exercised a potent influence in shaping county affairs generally, the meanwhile devoting all of his leisure to the improvement of his homestead, which increased greatly in value as the country became more thickly populated. After living on his place for about six years, he removed to Faulkton, Faulk county, where, in partnership with his brother, J. H. Bottum, he established the Citizens Bank, of which he was cashier during the four years of the institution's existence. Disposing of his interests in Faulkton, Mr. Bottum, in 1892, changed his residence to Watertown, where he was engaged in the real-estate business until 1896, when he found a larger and more favorable field in the city of Aberdeen.
Since the latter year Mr. Bottum has built up a large and prosperous business, which includes the handling of all kinds of city and country real estate in many of the best counties of South Dakota, besides acting as agent for F. R. Clement, of Minneapolis, whose extensive landed interests in this state are subject to his management. He has consummated a number of large deals, for which liberal commissions were received, and his patronage has steadily grown, until in magnitude and importance his business now compares favorably with that of the most successful agencies of the kind in the state.
Mr. Bottum is a thirty-second-degree Scottish-rite Mason, and has been honored with a number of high official positions in the brotherhood; he is an active worker in the lodge at Aberdeen and like all true members of the mystic tie, endeavors to square his life and control his conduct according to its precepts.
Mr. Bottum is a married man and the father of two children, a son, Frank, and a daughter by the name of Margaret. His wife was formerly Miss Alla A. Beardsley, of Redfield, South Dakota, and the ceremony by which her name was changed to the one she now so worthily wears took place in that town on the 23d of August, 1887.
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Following information provided by Tony Scott:
BOTTUM, Roswell (b. August 3, 1857 Fond du Lac County, WI; d. 1950 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) A leading real-estate man in South Dakota, Bottum grew up in Wisconsin and was educated in public schools. He taught school in Wisconsin for a few years before relocating to Spink County, South Dakota in 1879, settling in Redfield. While there he served as county treasurer and was a great influence in shaping country affairs. Around 1885 Bottum moved to Faulkton and partnering with his brother J.H. Bottum, they established the Citizen's Bank where he served as cashier for four years. In 1892 he relocated to Watertown and engaged himself in real estate for four years before leaving for the bigger city of Aberdeen. While in Aberdeen, Bottum built a prosperous business handling city and country real estate in South Dakota while acting as an agent for another party in Minnesota. Bottum had worked as an attorney heading the litigation section of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington before working with his brother. Bottum was married to Alla A. Beardsley (b. 1857; d. 1922) and together they had two children.
Bio from "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), p 1476.
ROSWELL BOTTUM, one of the leading real-estate men of Aberdeen, was born in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, on the 3d day of August, 1857. He spent his boyhood and youth in his native state and attended for a number of years the public schools, supplementing the training thus received by a course in Ripon College. leaving that institution, he engaged in teaching, which profession he followed in Wisconsin for a period of three years, and at the expiration of that time came to South Dakota, locating in Spink county in 1879, and took up a homestead near the town of Redfield. When that county was set apart as an independent jurisdiction, Mr. Bottum took an active part in its organization, which being effected, he was appointed county treasurer, holding the office one term. He discharged his official functions in an eminently satisfactory manner, in addition to which he also exercised a potent influence in shaping county affairs generally, the meanwhile devoting all of his leisure to the improvement of his homestead, which increased greatly in value as the country became more thickly populated. After living on his place for about six years, he removed to Faulkton, Faulk county, where, in partnership with his brother, J. H. Bottum, he established the Citizens Bank, of which he was cashier during the four years of the institution's existence. Disposing of his interests in Faulkton, Mr. Bottum, in 1892, changed his residence to Watertown, where he was engaged in the real-estate business until 1896, when he found a larger and more favorable field in the city of Aberdeen.
Since the latter year Mr. Bottum has built up a large and prosperous business, which includes the handling of all kinds of city and country real estate in many of the best counties of South Dakota, besides acting as agent for F. R. Clement, of Minneapolis, whose extensive landed interests in this state are subject to his management. He has consummated a number of large deals, for which liberal commissions were received, and his patronage has steadily grown, until in magnitude and importance his business now compares favorably with that of the most successful agencies of the kind in the state.
Mr. Bottum is a thirty-second-degree Scottish-rite Mason, and has been honored with a number of high official positions in the brotherhood; he is an active worker in the lodge at Aberdeen and like all true members of the mystic tie, endeavors to square his life and control his conduct according to its precepts.
Mr. Bottum is a married man and the father of two children, a son, Frank, and a daughter by the name of Margaret. His wife was formerly Miss Alla A. Beardsley, of Redfield, South Dakota, and the ceremony by which her name was changed to the one she now so worthily wears took place in that town on the 23d of August, 1887.
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Following information provided by Tony Scott:
BOTTUM, Roswell (b. August 3, 1857 Fond du Lac County, WI; d. 1950 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) A leading real-estate man in South Dakota, Bottum grew up in Wisconsin and was educated in public schools. He taught school in Wisconsin for a few years before relocating to Spink County, South Dakota in 1879, settling in Redfield. While there he served as county treasurer and was a great influence in shaping country affairs. Around 1885 Bottum moved to Faulkton and partnering with his brother J.H. Bottum, they established the Citizen's Bank where he served as cashier for four years. In 1892 he relocated to Watertown and engaged himself in real estate for four years before leaving for the bigger city of Aberdeen. While in Aberdeen, Bottum built a prosperous business handling city and country real estate in South Dakota while acting as an agent for another party in Minnesota. Bottum had worked as an attorney heading the litigation section of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington before working with his brother. Bottum was married to Alla A. Beardsley (b. 1857; d. 1922) and together they had two children.
ROSWELL BOTTUM, one of the leading real-estate men of Aberdeen, was born in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, on the 3d day of August, 1857. He spent his boyhood and youth in his native state and attended for a number of years the public schools, supplementing the training thus received by a course in Ripon College. leaving that institution, he engaged in teaching, which profession he followed in Wisconsin for a period of three years, and at the expiration of that time came to South Dakota, locating in Spink county in 1879, and took up a homestead near the town of Redfield. When that county was set apart as an independent jurisdiction, Mr. Bottum took an active part in its organization, which being effected, he was appointed county treasurer, holding the office one term. He discharged his official functions in an eminently satisfactory manner, in addition to which he also exercised a potent influence in shaping county affairs generally, the meanwhile devoting all of his leisure to the improvement of his homestead, which increased greatly in value as the country became more thickly populated. After living on his place for about six years, he removed to Faulkton, Faulk county, where, in partnership with his brother, J. H. Bottum, he established the Citizens Bank, of which he was cashier during the four years of the institution's existence. Disposing of his interests in Faulkton, Mr. Bottum, in 1892, changed his residence to Watertown, where he was engaged in the real-estate business until 1896, when he found a larger and more favorable field in the city of Aberdeen.
Since the latter year Mr. Bottum has built up a large and prosperous business, which includes the handling of all kinds of city and country real estate in many of the best counties of South Dakota, besides acting as agent for F. R. Clement, of Minneapolis, whose extensive landed interests in this state are subject to his management. He has consummated a number of large deals, for which liberal commissions were received, and his patronage has steadily grown, until in magnitude and importance his business now compares favorably with that of the most successful agencies of the kind in the state.
Mr. Bottum is a thirty-second-degree Scottish-rite Mason, and has been honored with a number of high official positions in the brotherhood; he is an active worker in the lodge at Aberdeen and like all true members of the mystic tie, endeavors to square his life and control his conduct according to its precepts.
Mr. Bottum is a married man and the father of two children, a son, Frank, and a daughter by the name of Margaret. His wife was formerly Miss Alla A. Beardsley, of Redfield, South Dakota, and the ceremony by which her name was changed to the one she now so worthily wears took place in that town on the 23d of August, 1887.
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Following information provided by Tony Scott:
BOTTUM, Roswell (b. August 3, 1857 Fond du Lac County, WI; d. 1950 Los Angeles, CA – Cathedral Mausoleum) A leading real-estate man in South Dakota, Bottum grew up in Wisconsin and was educated in public schools. He taught school in Wisconsin for a few years before relocating to Spink County, South Dakota in 1879, settling in Redfield. While there he served as county treasurer and was a great influence in shaping country affairs. Around 1885 Bottum moved to Faulkton and partnering with his brother J.H. Bottum, they established the Citizen's Bank where he served as cashier for four years. In 1892 he relocated to Watertown and engaged himself in real estate for four years before leaving for the bigger city of Aberdeen. While in Aberdeen, Bottum built a prosperous business handling city and country real estate in South Dakota while acting as an agent for another party in Minnesota. Bottum had worked as an attorney heading the litigation section of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington before working with his brother. Bottum was married to Alla A. Beardsley (b. 1857; d. 1922) and together they had two children.
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