William Tate Biography-

William Tate Biography- Vermont to South Dakota


WILLIAM TATE is one of the representative business men of Sioux Falls, where he is a wholesale and retail dealer in bar glassware and supplies, wines and liquors, etc.

He is a native of the old Green Mountain state, having been born in the city of Rutland, Vermont, on the 15th of August, 1863, and being a son of Charles R. and Mary (Clark) Tate

. He received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native city and when he was a lad of eight years his parents removed to the city of Chicago, and later to Rochelle, Illinois, where he continued his studies in the public schools, as did he later in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to which place his parents came in 1876, being pioneers of the city and state.

For nine years Mr. Tate was engaged in herding cattle for different individuals, and he then secured employment in a wholesale liquor house in Sioux Falls, that of the firm of Hickey & McNamara, with whom he remained until 1901, in which year he opened his present place of business, at 229 North Phillips avenue, where he has built up a profitable enterprise, while he has gained a wide circle of friends in the city. He is identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and in politics exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Democratic party, though he has never taken any active part in public affairs. On the 9th of January, 1886, Mr. Tate was united in marriage to Miss Hannah J. McCarty, who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and who was a resident of Sioux Falls at the time of her marriage. They have one child, Lila Mary, who is fourteen years of age at the time of this writing.