State Files

The following files consist of state, regional, ethnic, or other non-county sources.

• Biographies
  • Table of Contents for All SD Biographies
  • South Dakota Native Nobel Laureates
    • Ernest Orlando Lawrence
    • Theodore Schultz
      • Theodore William Schultz' obituary
  • Dakota Territorial Governors (1 KB)
  • South Dakota Governors (3 KB)
  • Territorial and State Officials, 1861-1903 (75 KB)

• City and County Directories
  • A list ofCounty and City Directories housed at the SD State Archives in Pierre

• Regional
  • Black Hills
    • Early history of the Black Hills Courts (18 KB)
    • Description of the Black Hills from the 1878 Wolfe's Mercantile Guide and Business Directory . . . (12 KB)
    • Description of the Black Hills from the 1909 South Dakota State Business Directory (1 KB)
    • Description of the Black Hills from the 1916 R. L. Polk Business Directory (2 KB)
    • Early History of the Society of Black Hills Pioneers (6 KB)
    • Odd characters and Incidents (25 KB)
    • Obituary Index
      • Index to Obituaries in the Rapid City Journal, Jan 1997 - May 1997 (130 KB)
      • About the Index to Obituaries in the Rapid City Journal
  • Northeastern South Dakota
    • Index to Historical Stories, Legends and Traditions - Northeastern South Dakota by H. S. Morris (57 KB)

• Census Records
  • Interactive search of the 1860 U. S. Census for the region that would become South Dakota
  • View the 1860 U. S. Census for the region that would become South Dakota (103 KB)
  • View the 1890 U. S. Census for South Dakota (4 KB)
    - The enumeration of the Lafferee Family, Jefferson Twp, Union County is the only SD record to survive a fire in the Commerce Department Building in January, 1921.

• Church Records
  • Brief Church Histories from History of South Dakota by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904)
    • Baptist Church (38 KB)
    • Catholic Church (14 KB)
    • Congregational Church (44 KB)
    • Episcopal Church (30 KB)
    • Methodist Episcopal Church (33 KB)
    • Presbyterian Church (23 KB)
    • Reformed Church (20 KB)
  • Index to South Dakota Baptist Annual, 1891 (77 KB)
  • Index to The Baptist History of South Dakota Annual, 1899 (31 KB)
  • Charter Members of the Dakota Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church (1 KB)
  • History of Missouri Frontier, Methodist Episcopal Church (2 KB)
  • Baptismal Records of Rev. Bonney, Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev Bonney served churches in Brown, Lyman, Aurora, and Brule Counties, as well as the SD State Soldier's Home in Hot Springs. (138 KB)
  • Marriage Records of Rev. Bonney, Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev Bonney served churches in Brown, Lyman, Aurora, and Brule Counties, as well as the SD State Soldier's Home in Hot Springs. Alphabetical by Groom's Last Name (25 KB)
  • Marriage Records of Rev. Bonney, Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev Bonney served churches in Brown, Lyman, Aurora, and Brule Counties, as well as the SD State Soldier's Home in Hot Springs. Alphabetical by Bride's Last Name (25 KB)
  • History of Missionaries
    • Work of T. L. Riggs and his group
    • Work of John P. Williamson and his group

• State or Territory Histories
  • Full Text of History of South Dakota by Doane Robinson -- work in progress updated 11/16/98

  • Full Text of Brief History of South Dakota by Doane Robinson -- work in progress updated 11/5/99

  • Full text of the Dakota Territory and South Dakota Chapters in The Province and the States, Vol. VI, edited by Weston Arthur Goodspeed, LL.B. The Chapters were written by Judge Bartlett Tripp and Hon. John Henry Worst.

  • Pre-Territorial History of Dakota Territory (84 KB)
  • Territorial History of Dakota Territory, 1861 - 1875 (126 KB)
  • Acquisition of the Black Hills (25 KB)
  • Territorial History of Dakota Territory, 1874 - 1884 (33 KB)
  • Territorial History of Dakota Territory, 1884 - 1889 (30 KB)
  • Dakota Territory, Division and Admission (49 KB)
  • South Dakota, State Government (71 KB)
  • South Dakota, Statistics and Reflections (19 KB)