. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . they sold out and Joseph Raney wentto Arkansas. After roving around the country for a year or more A. E. Raney returned toLamoure county and settled in .Tud. where he has since been engaged extensively in the saleof farm lands. On the organization of the First State Bank of .Jud in the winter of 1905-6he became one of the stockholders and soon after the institution was opened for businesshe was elected president of the bank, in which office he has since continued, being the direct-ing head of the institution and largely shaping


. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history . they sold out and Joseph Raney wentto Arkansas. After roving around the country for a year or more A. E. Raney returned toLamoure county and settled in .Tud. where he has since been engaged extensively in the saleof farm lands. On the organization of the First State Bank of .Jud in the winter of 1905-6he became one of the stockholders and soon after the institution was opened for businesshe was elected president of the bank, in which office he has since continued, being the direct-ing head of the institution and largely shaping its policy. Voting with the democratic party, J[r. Rsmey gives stalwart support to its principles,while his fellow townsmen, appreciative of his worth and ability, have called him to somelocal offices. For three years he served as county commissioner and for two years was countytreasurer of Lamoure county, and then in 1912 still higher political honors were conferredupon him liy election to the state legislature, in which his record was characterized by unfal-. HOX. ALPHEUS E. EANEY HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 801 teiing devotion to the best interests of the commonwealth, based upon a careful considerationof the vital questions which came up for settlement. Mr. Raney is well known in Masoniccircles, belonging to Maple River Lodge, Xo. 41, F. & A. M., of Edgeley; Dakota Consistory,No. 1, A. & A. S. R.; and El Zagal Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S. Dependent upon his ownresources from early manhood, whatever success he has achieved is the result of intelligentlydirected effort and judicious investment, and his fellow townsmen recognize in him a man ofexcellent business qualifications. D. J. McLennan. D. J. McLennan, attorney at law practicing in Rolette, was born in Cottonwood, Minne-sota, November 30, 1879, a son of John F. and Jessie (McKinley) McLennan. The fatherwas an architect and followed that profession for a number of years in Duluth but sub-sequently engaged in farming in Lyon cou


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