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• Beadle was 31 years old when he came to Dakota Territory in 1869, appointed by President Ulysses Grant as surveyor general of the territory. He later served as private secretary to Territorial Gov. William Howard and was superintendent of public instruction from 1879 to 1885. Beadle was among those present at the Rev. Stewart Sheldon's home in Yankton on Thanksgiving Day in 1879. This Thanksgiving dinner meeting is said to have been the true beginning of the movement of statehood for South Dakota. Statehood was granted on Nov. 2, 1889.
• At the time Dakota Territory was being surveyed, an ordinance adopted and later amended by Congress specified that sections 16 and 36 in each township should be sold or rented to create a fund that would support public education. A

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