History of South Dakota. Roscoe Alton Rounseville.
R. A. Rounseville a representative farmer and stock raiser of Kingsbury county, is a native of Waterloo county, Wisconsin. He grew to manhood in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, attended the public school at intervals until eighteen years old and assisted his father in running the home farm until attaining his majority.
Coming to Kingsbury county, South Dakota, he entered a quarter section of land, after which he worked among the neighboring farmers for several years to earn sufficient money to develop and otherwise improve his claim. Meanwhile he spent considerable time on his land and when not otherwise engaged addressed himself manfully to its improvement. He began farming for himself with an ox-team and a plow and with this outfit succeeded in breaking the greater part of his ground and fitting it for tillage. He entered the marriage relation, after which he set up a domestic establishment on his place and, beginning to farm in earnest, was in due time on the high road to success and prosperity. Mr. Rounseville owns three hundred and twenty acres of fine land, admirably situated for farming and stock raising, and to these two lines of industry he has devoted his attention, with most encouraging financial results. Mr. Rounseville and family belong to the Catholic Church, the parents as well as the children having been born and reared in this faith. In former years the subject was a Democrat, but when the Populist party was organized he espoused its principles and became one of its first leaders in Kingsbury county. He was elected on this ticket county commissioner and served two term, making a capable, painstaking and exceedingly popular official. He was township clerk, has been accessor and in addition thereto is now treasure of their school board of his township.
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