Charles N. Herreid

The bronze gives Herreid's sponsorship of the State Historical Society one clause. The bill behind it, House Bill 10, passed in the first weeks of his term, and he signed it on February 5, 1901, turning a private society into the state's Department of History. Doane Robinson ran that department from 1901 to 1926. The same summer a Soo Line branch reached a new townsite in Campbell County, and it was named Herreid for the governor. His term ran to January 3, 1905, not to the 1904 cast here.

What the plaque says

Charles N. Herreid Fourth Governor of South Dakota 1901-1904 Born in Dane County, Wisconsin, October 20th, 1857, he graduated from Galesville College and in 1882 from the Law School of the University of Wisconsin and came to Leola, McPherson County, Dakota. He was elected Register of Deeds and County Clerk at the organizational meeting of McPherson County on March 6th, 1884. He and his wife, Jeanette E. Slye, were among the first residents of Leola where he practiced law until 1893 when he moved to Eureka. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1892 and again in 1894 and was a Regent of Education 1897-1901. He was elected Governor in 1900 and his sponsorship of the State Historical Society was a great factor in its becoming a State Department. At the close of his term, in 1904, he went to Aberdeen, where he was president of the Citizen's State Bank and of the Street Railway Company and a leading citizen until his death at Aberdeen July 6th, 1928. By Faith a Presbyterian, he was a Thirty third degree Mason. He was Food Administrator for South Dakota during World War I. Noted for his fine diction, he was a lover of man, an outdoor sportsman and a traveler of note. He did much for Eureka in his 11 years as a resident. Erected 1961 by Eureka Chamber of Commerce and State Highway Commission

Where it stands

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