James Gayton biography and another photo can be found at - http://theusgenweb.org/nd/sioux/biosg.htm .
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The below is provided by Shirley Jacobchick, Find a Grave Member #48272437
From “Emmons County history: compiled for the bicentennial, 1976”
JAMES B. GAYTON (1833-1909)
James B. Gayton, one ol the county organizers and a member of its first board of Commissioners, came into the territory as early as 1868. In the 70s he was one of
the first white settlers to locate in Horse-head Valley, and ran an Indian trading store on the site where the Indians had camped a century earlier.
Mr. Gayton was born and educated at Cleveland, Ohio. While attending college, he was a classmate of James A. Garfield, who was to be elected President in 1880.
Mr. Gayton went west into Iowa, and helped survey the greater part of that State. In Nebraska he was married to an Indian woman of the Sioux tribe and raised a family there. Later he came to Yankton and went up the river to Fort Rice where he served as Commissary Clerk in 1868.
At Fort Rice he married a second Indian woman, also a Sioux, and they were the parents of 8 children. In 1874 he and Andy Marsh were operating a wood yard at Glanavon, Emmons Co. to supply the steamboats. Later, they had one below the mouth of Cat Tail Creek, and a third on Horsehead Flats.
After the N.P. Railroad had been built into Bismarck (in 1873) a mail line was established from there to Winona, with several post offices along the way, one of which was named for Mr. Gayton. The school district and voting precinct were also later named for him.
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The below is provided by Shirley Jacobchick, Find a Grave Member #48272437
From “Emmons County history: compiled for the bicentennial, 1976”
JAMES B. GAYTON (1833-1909)
James B. Gayton, one ol the county organizers and a member of its first board of Commissioners, came into the territory as early as 1868. In the 70s he was one of
the first white settlers to locate in Horse-head Valley, and ran an Indian trading store on the site where the Indians had camped a century earlier.
Mr. Gayton was born and educated at Cleveland, Ohio. While attending college, he was a classmate of James A. Garfield, who was to be elected President in 1880.
Mr. Gayton went west into Iowa, and helped survey the greater part of that State. In Nebraska he was married to an Indian woman of the Sioux tribe and raised a family there. Later he came to Yankton and went up the river to Fort Rice where he served as Commissary Clerk in 1868.
At Fort Rice he married a second Indian woman, also a Sioux, and they were the parents of 8 children. In 1874 he and Andy Marsh were operating a wood yard at Glanavon, Emmons Co. to supply the steamboats. Later, they had one below the mouth of Cat Tail Creek, and a third on Horsehead Flats.
After the N.P. Railroad had been built into Bismarck (in 1873) a mail line was established from there to Winona, with several post offices along the way, one of which was named for Mr. Gayton. The school district and voting precinct were also later named for him.
James Gayton biography and another photo can be found at - http://theusgenweb.org/nd/sioux/biosg.htm .
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The below is provided by Shirley Jacobchick, Find a Grave Member #48272437
From “Emmons County history: compiled for the bicentennial, 1976”
JAMES B. GAYTON (1833-1909)
James B. Gayton, one ol the county organizers and a member of its first board of Commissioners, came into the territory as early as 1868. In the 70s he was one of
the first white settlers to locate in Horse-head Valley, and ran an Indian trading store on the site where the Indians had camped a century earlier.
Mr. Gayton was born and educated at Cleveland, Ohio. While attending college, he was a classmate of James A. Garfield, who was to be elected President in 1880.
Mr. Gayton went west into Iowa, and helped survey the greater part of that State. In Nebraska he was married to an Indian woman of the Sioux tribe and raised a family there. Later he came to Yankton and went up the river to Fort Rice where he served as Commissary Clerk in 1868.
At Fort Rice he married a second Indian woman, also a Sioux, and they were the parents of 8 children. In 1874 he and Andy Marsh were operating a wood yard at Glanavon, Emmons Co. to supply the steamboats. Later, they had one below the mouth of Cat Tail Creek, and a third on Horsehead Flats.
After the N.P. Railroad had been built into Bismarck (in 1873) a mail line was established from there to Winona, with several post offices along the way, one of which was named for Mr. Gayton. The school district and voting precinct were also later named for him.
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The below is provided by Shirley Jacobchick, Find a Grave Member #48272437
From “Emmons County history: compiled for the bicentennial, 1976”
JAMES B. GAYTON (1833-1909)
James B. Gayton, one ol the county organizers and a member of its first board of Commissioners, came into the territory as early as 1868. In the 70s he was one of
the first white settlers to locate in Horse-head Valley, and ran an Indian trading store on the site where the Indians had camped a century earlier.
Mr. Gayton was born and educated at Cleveland, Ohio. While attending college, he was a classmate of James A. Garfield, who was to be elected President in 1880.
Mr. Gayton went west into Iowa, and helped survey the greater part of that State. In Nebraska he was married to an Indian woman of the Sioux tribe and raised a family there. Later he came to Yankton and went up the river to Fort Rice where he served as Commissary Clerk in 1868.
At Fort Rice he married a second Indian woman, also a Sioux, and they were the parents of 8 children. In 1874 he and Andy Marsh were operating a wood yard at Glanavon, Emmons Co. to supply the steamboats. Later, they had one below the mouth of Cat Tail Creek, and a third on Horsehead Flats.
After the N.P. Railroad had been built into Bismarck (in 1873) a mail line was established from there to Winona, with several post offices along the way, one of which was named for Mr. Gayton. The school district and voting precinct were also later named for him.
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