Biography of Gustavus R. Krause
Gustavus R. Krause (b. 1859, Dodge County, Wisconsin) was a prominent attorney based in Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. The son of German immigrants Godfrey H. and Amelia Krause, he pursued education at a German private school, Baptist college in Monee, Illinois, and a business college in Burlington, Iowa. Krause initially engaged in the mercantile business in Nebraska before relocating to Dell Rapids in 1889. Admitted to the South Dakota bar in 1897, he built a successful legal career while actively participating in Republican politics and community life. He married Delia P. Christison in 1881, with whom he had two sons.
