Basin Electric original incorporator Richard G. Stoltenburg
Richard Stoltenburg was elected to the Codington-Clark Electric Cooperative board of directors on Feb. 9, 1949, and served until Sept. 27, 1971.
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Richard Stoltenburg was born at Altamont, SD, to John and Gertrude Stoltenburg on May 24, 1904. He attended country school.
He married Hulda Hackbart, and they had five children: Elaine, Roy, Macille, Harold and Velma.
They farmed and lived in Elmira Township, Codington County, SD, until moving into Watertown, SD, in 1971. He also did carpentry work.
He was elected to the Codington-Clark Electric Cooperative board of directors on Feb. 9, 1949, and served until Sept. 27, 1971. It was during this service to Codington-Clark that he became an incorporator of Basin Electric on May 5, 1961. He served as treasurer of the Codington-Clark board for one year from February 1953 to February 1954. He also held various township and church council offices.
He died on March 11, 1993, in Watertown. He is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Watertown.
On May 5, 1961, 69 people from several states gathered at the Patterson Hotel in Bismarck, ND, to sign Articles of Incorporation for Basin Electric. Their names are on a brass plaque immediately outside of the main entrance to the Headquarters building. Kathi Risch, Basin Electric senior staff writer/editor, has been seeking information about the original incorporators and compiling these profiles.
In the next several months, prior to the cooperative’s 50th anniversary celebration to be held at the 2011 annual meeting on Nov. 9, Risch will share what she has uncovered. If you have information you would like to share about a Basin Electric original incorporator and you haven’t been contacted, please call Risch at 701-557-5606 or send information, photo scans, etc. to krisch@bepc.com.
See all the original incorporators profiled to date.
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