Frank M. Ziebach

Frank M. Ziebach (also known by his full name of Francis Marion Ziebach) was a political figure in the Dakota Territory during the territorial period from 1861 to 1889. He was a pioneer newspaperman, founding a number of newspapers in the Iowa and Dakota Territories, including the Yankton "Weekly Dakotan" (also referred to as the "Weekly Dakotian") in 1861, which is still published today as the Yankton "Press and Dakotan".[1] He was known as the "squatter governor" of the Dakota Territory. Ziebach County, South Dakota was created in 1911, and is named for him.

Frank M. Ziebach was born in 1830 in Pennsylvania,[2][3] and died in 1929 in Yankton, South Dakota at the age of 98. His life spanned the period from the presidency of Andrew Jackson (1829–37) to that of Herbert Hoover (1929–33).

  1. ^ A South Dakota Guide. Federal Writer's Project. 1938. p. 35.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference HSED382 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ South Dakota's Ziebach County, History of the Prairie. Dupree, South Dakota: Ziebach County Historical Society. 1982. pp. 20–41.