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202 hope for his life lay in amputating his limbs. Among the settlers was a young physician, Dr. James L. Phillips, recently graduated, but he possessed no surgical instruments. He amputated the legs of Mr. Brookings with a common handsaw and butcher knife, and successfully nursed him back to health; and Brookings lived to become one of the most useful citizens of the territory. The first railroad in Dakota territory (1872), from the settlement at Yankton to Sioux City, was promoted and built by Judge Brookings. He was for four years a justice of the Dakota Supreme Court (1869-1873). His death occurred at Boston, in June, 1905.

Dr. William Jayne, the first legally appointed territorial governor (1861), was at that time a young physician at Springfield. He had attracted the attention of President Lincoln and was employed in his family. Jayne was ambitious to get into politics, and Lincoln sent him out as governor of Dakota. His official conduct appears to have been wise and honest, but at the second election he determined to become a candidate for delegate to Congress, and made the campaign upon the Republican ticket against General J. B. S. Todd, the non-partisan candidate. Jayne secured the certificate of election, but the conduct of his campaign was a territorial scandal, which must always reflect upon his good name. Todd contested Jayne's election and secured the seat. Jayne never came back to Dakota, but returned to Springfield.

Dr. Jayne was succeeded by Newton Edmunds (1863), a citizen of Yankton. Governor Edmunds was one of the wisest and most practical executives Dakota has had.