Editing De Smet, South Dakota (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Laura ingalls wilder desmet former site ingalls store.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Former site of Ingalls Store, downtown De Smet]]
De Smet is the town where the family of author [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]] finally settled, and is the birthplace of Ingalls Wilder's daughter, author and activist [[Rose Wilder Lane]]. Ingalls Wilder's father, [[Charles Ingalls]], moved to De Smet in 1879 with his wife, Caroline, and their children [[Mary Ingalls|Mary]], Laura, [[Carrie Ingalls|Carrie]], and [[Grace Ingalls|Grace]]. There, after first living in the Surveyor House and a couple of other locations in De Smet, Ingalls built their permanent home that became known via Wilder's writings as "The House That Pa Built".

Construction on the house began in 1887 and was completed in 1889. After settling in De Smet, Charles Ingalls owned and operated the Ingalls Store from 1880 to 1881, a small general-type store that sold various goods for the home. While the store building no longer exists, the location is noted in De Smet's downtown area with a marker on what's currently on the site, a former bank building that now houses Gass Law Firm.

De Smet was also the childhood home of supercentenarian [[Walter Breuning]].{{Citation needed|date = January 2016}} Artist-illustrator [[Harvey Dunn]] was born in 1884 approximately eight miles from De Smet near [[Manchester, South Dakota|Manchester]], and painted scenes of frontier life in his later years.{{citation needed|date = January 2016}} [[Harry George Armstrong]], a [[major general]] in the [[United States Air Force]], a physician, and an airman, was born in De Smet in 1899.