PATRICK CUNNINGHAM is a native of Canada, his birth having occurred in the province of Ontario, and to the public school system of his native country he is indebted for the educational privileges he enjoyed. He left school at an early age and began to earn his own living by working in the lumber woods. He soon realized that there is no royal road to wealth and that no excellence can be accomplished without labor, so he set himself resolutely to the task of building up his fortune through energy and unfaltering perseverance. In the fall of 1869 he came to South Dakota with his brother William and together they cut down trees which they floated down the river to Yankton, where they were converted in the sawmill into marketable lumber. Mr. Cunningham also assisted in making governmental surveys. The state was then upon the wild western frontier and pioneer conditions existed on every hand. With the progress that has since been made he has been actively identified, taking a deep and helpful interest in everything pertaining to the public good and to the general improvement of his adopted state.
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