Stephen J. (S. J.) Doyle was born March 12, 1871, in New Marlboro, Massachusetts, to Irish immigrants, Kiernan and Margaret Doyle.  He attended public school and then went to Eastman's National Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York, graduating in 1890.  Mr. Doyle served in 1909 and 1911 in the North Dakota House of Representatives, and helped frame the bill establishing a non-partisan judiciary.  He was U. S. Marshal from 1914 to 1922 and 1934 to 1940.  In 1918 he was the candidate for governor, but lost.

The Doyle Collection consists of correspondence and subject files.  The correspondence , which is mainly political and arranged chronologically, is both incoming and outgoing.  There are letters to W. D. Jamieson of the Democratic Nation Committee and to H. H. Perry, also a number of letters from G. A. Fraser, Aubrey Lawrence, Thomas Hull, Fred Irish, J. F. T. O'Connor, E. H. Mattingly and the Tinley for Vice-President Headquarters, (1932).  The subject files contain a certificate of election and a memorial resolution from the North Dakota House of Representatives, also a Doyle Motor Company Certificate.  The files also contain some Doyle family clippings and an interesting account of the origins of the Doyle family. 
 

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