Moses Fantle

1 Mar 1874 - AFT 1940

• RESIDENCE: 1894, Yankton, South Dakota, USA
• OCCUPATION: Merchant
  
• BIRTH: 1 Mar 1874, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• DEATH: AFT 1940

• MARRIAGE: 17 Nov 1909, Detroit, Michigan, USA

1.  Regine Fantle
2. +Lewis C. Fantle

                                             _____________________
                                            |                     
                       _____________________|
                      |                     |
                      |                     |_____________________
                      |                                           
 _Charles Fantle _____|
| (1833 - 1908) m 1862|
|                     |                      _Juda Fantl _________+
|                     |                     |  m 1792             
|                     |_ Fantle ____________|
|                                           |
|                                           |_Rosa _______________
|                                              m 1792             
|
|--Moses Fantle 
|  (1874 - 1940)
|                                            _Aaron Gregor _______
|                                           | (.... - 1837)       
|                      _Simon Gregor _______|
|                     | (1812 - 1885) m 1849|
|                     |                     |_Franzischka ________
|                     |                       (.... - 1841)       
|_Regina Gregor ______|
  (1842 - 1919) m 1862|
                      |                      _Josua Sittig _______+
                      |                     | (1780 - 1861) m 1809
                      |_Rosalia Sittig _____|
                        (1812 - 1879) m 1849|
                                            |_Regina Weil ________+
                                              (1783 - 1832) m 1809

[6297] Alternative date of birth: 8 March 1874
Source: http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm

Moses Fantle Biography


This biography appears on pages 147-148 in "History of Dakota
Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was
scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit
organizations for their private use.

Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval
system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other
means requires the written approval of the file's author.

This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside
a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at

http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm


MOSES FANTLE.

Few men are more prominent or more widely known in the enterprising city of Yankton than Moses Fantle who, as a member of the firm of Fantle Brothers, has been an important factor in business circles and his prosperity is well deserved. Mr. Fantle was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 8, 1874, a son of Charles and Regina (Gregor) Fantle, both of whom were natives of Austria. The father came as a lad to the United States and making his way to Ann Arbor, Michigan, there made his home with relatives, while the mother was likewise brought to this country in her childhood days. The father grew to manhood in Ann Arbor and in early life engaged in merchandising, conducting an establishment of that character there for thirty-five years. In 1884 the family removed to St. Paul and in that city the father engaged in
business with his two sons, his death occurring there in 1908, when he had reached the ripe old age of seventy-nine years. The mother still survives, making her home in St. Paul. The four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fantle are: Charles and Samuel, who are engaged in
merchandising in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and William and Moses, engaged in a similar enterprise in Yankton.

Moses Fantle was a little lad of ten years at the time the family removed from Ann Arbor to St. Paul, so that his education was mainly acquired in the public schools of the latter city, and in the high school, from which he was graduated in 1893. Immediately thereafter he
came to Yankton to engage in the mercantile business with his brother William and has since been connected with this enterprise, the brothers doing business under the firm style of Fantle Brothers. As the years have passed the business has grown and today they occupy a building
three stories in height, with basement, and this is considered one of the best mercantile establishments in the state of South Dakota. The brothers have made a deep study of the needs and demands of the public. They carry a large and carefully selected line of goods, which they
sell at right prices, and this, in connection with their just treatment of patrons, constitutes the basis of their success.

In addition to his other interests Mr. Fantle is connected with banking, being a director in the Dakota National Bank.

On the 17th of November, 1909, Mr. Fantle was united in marriage to Miss Carrie S. Freud, a daughter of Leopold and Hannah (Sittig) Freud, of Detroit, Michigan, in which city the father is a capitalist and real-estate operator, and who for many years had important mining
interests in northern Michigan. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Fantle has been blessed with an interesting little daughter, Regine.

Mr. Fantle gives his political support to the republican party. He is prominent in Masonic circles, having attained the thirty-second degree in that order and he also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He likewise holds membership relations with the Noon Day and the Commercial Clubs. He seeks rest and recreation from business cares in out door sports. He has ever been a busy man and has been largely instrumental in building up one of the largest mercantile establishments in the state which stands as a tribute to the business genius of two of Yankton's youngest merchants.