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Eunice Truman, who died in November, 1873, leaving one 

 daughter, Alice M., now Mrs. J. C. Jenkins. While a resident 

 of Iowa he taught several terms of school and served as county 

 superintendent and county surveyor for several years. In 1873 

 he was admitted to the bar at Harlan, Iowa, where he prac- 

 ticed law until 1881, when he came to Brookings County. 

 Here he at once took a pre-emption (in L/ake Sinai Township, 

 and after proving up his claim he located in the village of 

 Volga and became a partner in the law office of A. S. Mitchell. 

 Since 1891 he has kept an independent office, doing a general 

 law practice until about a year ago. January 12, 1892, he was 

 married to Miss Mary E. Dickerson. In 1893-4 he served as 

 county judge of Brookings County, and in the fall of 1894 was 

 elected a member of the house of representatives. 



Mr. Truman was a man of excellent business .habits, honor- 

 able and true. In his chosen profession the law he was 

 eminently successful and conscientious, winning for himself an 

 enviable reputation. Always courteous and obliging, having 

 his own views of all public questions and arriving at his con- 

 clusions with admirable judgment, he was content to accord to 

 others the same principle ever ready to give advice, but never 

 anxious to force himself or his views upon others. As a citi- 

 zen of the community he had the general welfare at heart and 

 always strived to advance its moral and financial interests. In 

 the different positions of trust to which the people of the village 

 and county have elected him in years past he always acquitted 

 himself with credit and honor. He will be greatly missed, not 

 only in his home, but in this community, where he has been 

 closely identified with our people and interests for the past 

 twenty years. Volga [South Dakota] Tribune. 



Judge Truman will also be greatly missed by a large circle 

 of entomological correspondents. He was a good collector and 

 an enthusiastic student of insects. Prof. J. M. Aldrich says 

 of him : ' ' He was by all odds the best entomologist in South 

 Dakota, and practically the only one at the time I lived in the 

 State. ' ' He had a fine collection of Lepidoptera to which he 

 was very devoted. 



