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met General Beadle, who during the ceremonies had been a silent witness stationed near the speaker's stand."
• A replica of the statue was placed in Statuary Hall in the nation's Capital in 1938 to mark the centennial of the birth of South Dakota's Grand Old Man, as some called Beadle. A statue of Beadle is also located on the campus of Dakota State University.
• Beadle died on Nov. 13, 1915, while visiting his daughter in San Francisco. He is buried at Albion, Mich., where his wife was buried.
• Beadle's name lives on in South Dakota with a county and several schools that bear his name. But his most important legacy is that because of his foresight, the interest and rental income from the sale and leasing of school lands has helped finance public education in South Dakota. The office of School and Public Lands returns approximately $12 million to school districts and endowed institutions each year from money generated from grazing, mineral, oil and gas leases, interest on the Common School Permanent Fund, and interest on land sales contracts.
•  This moment in South Dakota history is provided by the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising partner of the South Dakota State Historical Society. Find us on the web at www.sdhsf.org. Contact us at info@sdhsf.org to submit a story idea.