Person:Margaret Wylie (11)

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Name Margaret Wylie
Married Name _____ Mellette
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1843 Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, United States
Marriage to Arthur Calvin Mellette, 1st Governor of South Dakota
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  1. Wylie family collection, 1822-1990, bulk 1840-1900 [1].

    ... Margaret Wylie, b. 1843, was the third child of Theophilus and Rebecca Wylie. She married Arthur Calvin Mellette, who was a boarder at her parents’ home in the 1860’s. He would later go on to be the first Governor of South Dakota, which became a state in 1889. They had four sons: Theophilus Wylie ("Wylie"), Charles Edmond ("Charlie"), Arthur Anton ("Anton"), and Joshua Theodore Richard ("Dick"). ...