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William Henry Harrison Beadle was born in a log cabin in Parke County in 1838.

His father offered him a farm, but he accepted $ 1, 000 for an education instead and studied civil engineering at the University of Michigan.

He fought in the Civil War on the side of the Union and became a brigadier general.

After the war, he was named surveyor-general of the Dakota Territory.

Later he became president of the Madison State Normal School ( now Dakota State University ), then taught geography there after his presidency.

He died in 1915 at the age of 77.