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E. J. Lewis, M. D., was graduated from Rush Medical College in 1877 and settled in Ironton, Wisconsin, where he practiced his profession for six years. He then moved to Sauk Centre where he has since practiced. In his long residence in Sauk Centre he has become widely known and has proved him- self a typical and able family physician. He is a member of the Stearns- Benton Medical Society and of the state and national associations.
C. B. Lewis, M. D., of St. Cloud, was born in Ironton, Wis., September 17, 1878. Dr. Lewis received his carly schooling at Sauk Centre and took his medical course at the University of Minnesota. In 1905 he came to St. Cloud and became associated with Dr. Dunn, a partnership which still continues. He married Willemcna Freeman, a native of Illinois. Dr. Lewis is a member of the County and State Medical associations. His ability and close application to the work of his profession have won him a high place in the estimation of his confreres.
George E. Putney, M. D., was educated in public and private schools in Massachusetts and was graduated from Harvard Medical school in June, 1876, after serving externship and internships in the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston City Hospital. He served two and one-half years as first assistant physician in the Massachusetts State Hospital at Tewksburg. He located in Royalton, Minn., in 1884, removing from there in 1897, to Paynesville, where he has since lived. He was formerly a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, also the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, and is now a member of the Minnesota Medical Society, the Crow River Valley Medical Society and the Stearns-Benton Medical Society, and an honorary member of the Kandi- yohi-Swift Medical Society.
Herbert A. Pinault, M. D., physician and surgeon of St. Joseph village, was born in Ririmouski, province of Quebec, Canada, January 27, 1855, son of Nicholas and Christina (Lepage) Pinault, and a grandson of Louis Pin- ault. The family is noted for its longevity. Louis, the grandfather, who was born in Normandy, came to Canada and lived to be seventy-five while his good wife was over a hundred at the time of her death. Nicholas, the father, was born in Ririmouski and there reared his family of eight children. Herbert A. attended the seminary of his native town, and pursued his medical studies at the Laval University, Quebec, Canada. On April 6, 1883, he reached Minneapolis, going thence to Osseo, in Hennepin county, where his brother, Nicholas J. was practicing medicine. In the spring of 1884 he went to Baker
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City, Oregon. There he secured his citizenship papers. It was his intention at this period of life to enter the mercantile trade. His brother, however, was taken ill, and the subject of this sketch agreed to care for his patients at Osseo during his absence. After the recovery and return of his brother, Herbert A. Pinault opened an office in Minneapolis, where he practiced three years. Then for two years he followed his profession in St. Michael, Wright county. August 8, 1889, he arrived in St. Joseph. He has built up a large practice, and has the confidence and respect of the community. He is a mem- ber of the Catholic Order of Foresters, and the Modern Woodmen of America. Dr. Pinault married Emily Zachman, a native of St. Michael, Minn., and they have five children: Christina, teaching music at International Falls; Louis, who is studying architecture at the University of Illinois; Yvette, John and Dorothy.
Moody C. Tolman, M. D., was born at Greensboro, Olean county, Vermont, on September 15, 1823, and was graduated from the Dartmouth Medical Col- lege, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, November 7, 1849. He first located for the practice of his profession at Meredith Bridge, New Hampshire, immediately after his graduation in 1849, remained there two years, or until the fall of 1851, when he removed to Mechanics Falls, Maine, at which place he remained but a short time, removing thence to Calais, Maine, where he remained in the practice of the profession until the fall of 1856, when he came to Minnesota, locating at Winnebago Prairie or Watab, as it was known at that time, where he became interested with other men and organized what was then known as the Watab Land & Hotel Company. A.dam had been built across the Mis- sissippi river and a large hotel building was erected on the west side of the river. Here Dr. Tolman had his office and practiced medicine as well as played the part of host at the hotel. Shortly after locating there, the dam went out and the hotel building was destroyed by fire, and then Dr. Tolman took a homestead on land which afterwards became part of the D. B. Searle farm. It was from this district that Dr. Tolman was elected a member of the state legislature in 1859. In 1860, he moved to Anoka, where in 1861 he enlisted in the Second Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered in as assistant surgeon on July 27, 1861, was promoted to surgeon May 29, 1862, and served as such until the time of his discharge, December 31, 1864. Re- turning to his home at Anoka immediately upon his discharge from the service, Dr. Tolman with his family in the spring of 1865 removed to St. Cloud, and remained a resident of that city until the time of his death, March 2, 1873. Upon his going to St. Cloud, he formed a partnership with Dr. Wheelock, then in practice at Clearwater, which partnership continued for two years or more, when it was dissolved and Dr. Tolman, though continuing his practice became a member of the firm of Ticknor, Tolman & Co., and later Tolman & Co., and operated a drug store, continuing such business until his death. Dr. Tolman was for many years a member of the board of education of the city of St. Cloud, and was president of the board at the time of his death. During his term of office the Union school building was erected.
He was also the resident member of the State Normal School Board and was elected to be county superintendent of schools in Stearns county January
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6, 1872, but resigned that office by reason of failing health September 6, 1872. Dr. Tolman married Sarah E. Dwinal, at Mechanics Falls, Maine, January 30, 1853, and his widow, a resident of St. Cloud, still survives. Dr. Tolman was a Mason, having joined the Masonic Order at Calais, Maine, November 5, 1855.
Tolbert Watson, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Albany, was born in Cadmus, Ontario, Canada, December 14, 1879, son of J. J. and Elizabeth (Fer- guson) Watson. He passed his younger days in Canada, and at the age of thirteen was taken by his parents to Hoople, North Dakota. He attended the common schools in the neighborhood of his parents' home, and later entered the high school at Grafton, North Dakota. In 1900 he was graduated from Macalester Academy, and in 1904 from Macalester College, both at St. Paul. Then he entered the medical department of the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1908. After the usual expe- rience as an interne in the St. Barnabas Hospital, at Minneapolis, he came to Albany, where he has built up an extensive practice. He is a member of the American and Minnesota State Medical Associations, and of the Stearns- Benton County Medical Society. Dr. Watson married Ella Reynolds, daughter of E. H. Reynolds, and they have a son, Worth, born October 3, 1913, and a daughter born June 30, 1914, named Beatrice. J. J. and Elizabeth (Ferguson) Watson had six children. Howard married Catherine Clendenning, and lives at Gilford, Montana. Charles also lives in Gilford. He married Grace Staples. Tolbert is the subject of this sketch. Nettie is the wife of James Wilkinson, secretary of the University of North Dakota, and they have one child, Mar- jory. Lena is the wife of Robert Woods, of Hoople, N. D., and they have three children, Viola, Alvin and Henry lives in Gilford, Mon- tana, and with him live the father and mother.
Max J. Kern, M. D., county health officer of Stearns county, was born at Wadena, Minn., March 17, 1880; received a common school education in the public schools at that place and an academic education at St. John's Uni- versity, Collegeville, Minn. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Creighton University in 1904, and then served as house surgeon in Mercy Hospital, Council Bluffs, Iowa, for nine months. He practiced his profession for several years at Freeport, Minn., at which place he married Miss Anna Loretta Welle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Welle, who were pioneer settlers of that section of the county. This marriage was blessed with six children, five of whom are living. After practicing for ten months at Albany, Minn., he went to Europe, spending one year in Germany and Austria, pursuing special studies in the Royal and Imperial Hospital of Vienna, Austria, and in the Royal Hospital of Halle an der Saale, Germany. After returning from abroad he located in St. Cloud, where he soon became a member of the present medical firm of Drs. Dunn, Lewis & Kern.
George S. Brigham, M. D., was born in Bakersfield, Franklin county, Ver- mont, June 16, 1845, and after taking the usual preparatory courses entered McGill University, at Montreal, Canada, from which he was graduated in March, 1871. He practiced in Sheldon, Vermont, Lancaster, Wis., and' Austin, Minn., before coming to St. Cloud. Since his arrival in this city, October 5,
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1878, he has remained in continuous practice here. In 1903 he formed a part- nership with son Charles Fay which partnership still exists. Dr. Brigham married Emily C. Burr, and they have three children, Charles Fay, Florence L. and Frank T.
Charles Fay Brigham, M. D., was born in Austin, Minnesota, in 1876, and came to St. Cloud with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. G. S. Brigham, when a small ehild. He grew up in that eity, was educated in its public schools and has spent his whole professional life there. Dr. Brigham was graduated from the medical department of the University of Minnesota in 1901 and spent several months immediately following his graduation in St. Mary's Hospital at Duluth. He then came to St. Cloud and entered into partnership with his father, which partnership still exists. He enjoys the confidence of the people of his eity, who look upon him as their own and he has been entrusted for a number of years with the office of city physician, in which capacity he has rendered distinguished service.
John Benjamin Dunn, M. D., of St. Cloud, was born in Wilson, Winona county, November 27, 1859, son of James and Mary (O'Hare) Dunn, natives of Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Dunn's early education was at the common sehools of Winona. In 1877 he entered the State Normal Sehool, graduating in 1880. He began the study of medicine at Rush Medical College, graduating in 1882. He located at Shakopee, Minn., taking the large general practice established by his brother, Dr. J. H. Dunn. Desiring to specially qualify himself for sur- gieal practice, after nine years of active work, in 1891 he went to Chicago and New York for two years' post-graduate course. In 1893 he located in St. Cloud, associating himself with Dr. N. J. Pinault, who had a large general practice both medieal and surgical. Dr. Dunn has limited his practice largely to surgery and consultation work. In 1884 he married Mary O'Brien and they have had three children, Irene, Adelaide and Margaret.
Albert Otis Gilman, M. D., was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Feb- ruary 11, 1847. He attended Gilmanton Academy and studied his profession with one of the best surgeons in the Eastern states, Nahum Wight, M. D. October 24, 1867 he was gradnated with the degree M. D. at the Dartmouth Medical College. He praetieed medicine in Illinois the following year, when in 1869 he located permanently in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he practiced until the day of his death, July 16, 1897. He was a Knight Templar in the Masonie body, and an active member in the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and United Workmen. He was also an carnest worker in the Unitarian Church. During his long and active practice in St. Cloud he was known for many miles in all directions as a skillful and active physician, but his sneeess as a physician, great though it was, sinks into nothingness when compared with the loving memories his friends and patients hold of this big-hearted and sympathetic friend.
P. C. Pilon, M. D., head surgeon of the Paynesville Hospital, was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, September 15, 1864, son of A. and Louise (Lafreniere) Pilon. He received his early education at the Seminaire de St. Therese. In 1882 he entered the Eeolc de Medieine at de Chirurgie de Mon- treal, from which institution he was graduated in 1886. Thus prepared he
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started practice at New Bedford, Mass. In 1887 he took up practice at Cold Spring, in this county, and in 1891 moved his office to Richmond. It was in 1892 that he determined to devote his future entirely to surgery. In 1893 he went to Europe, and spent two years in post-graduate studies in Paris, Rome, Vienna and Berlin. He has improved the technique of surgical work with a view to promote rapid recovery and shorten the period of disability. It was in 1897 that Dr. Pilon came to Paynesville where he has achieved so marked a success. Dr. Pilon stands well in his profession, and is a member of the American, Minnesota State, and Crow River Valley Medical associations. He is an earnest advocate of public sanitation and has served two years as county coroner. A sincere promoter of the progress of Paynesville, he has served as president of the village council from 1900 to 1905. His good fellow- ship is shown by his membership in St. Cloud Lodge, No. 516, B. P. O. E. He is a communicant of the Catholic Church.
William T. Stone, M. D., is a native of New York, coming with his parents when two years of age to Fox Lake, Wis .; was educated at Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis., and the Wisconsin University, taking his medical degrees from Hahnemann, Chicago, in 1882; P. & S., Chicago, 1897, and Columbia Laboratory, 1898. He practiced in St. Cloud, Minn., from 1882 to 1896, in Park Rapids, Minn., from 1898 until 1911, afterwards for a short time at Minne- apolis, and is now located at Stacy, Minn., as proprietor of a drug store and practicing medicine.
George A. Junk, M. D., was of Irish birth, located in St. Cloud in the spring of 1892, remaining until 1897, when he went to England, and is now located in a suburb of Manchester.
H. M. Post, M. D., came to St. Cloud in 1886, practicing his profession until his death, which occurred January 4, 1903, when he was in his thirty-third year.
William Coburn, M. D., removed from Sauk Rapids to St. Cloud in August 1889, afterwards going to Little Falls.
Charles S. Weber, M. D., came to St. Cloud from St. Joseph, this county, in the fall of 1867, practicing his profession in this city until his death. He was one of the early homeopaths to locate in Stearns county.
W. B. Simonton, M. D., came to St. Cloud in 1858, going in 1862 to the Cariboo gold mines. Returning afterwards he located at Oakland, California, where he died January 25, 1890, aged 63 years.
J. V. Wren, M. D., coming to St. Cloud from New York City in 1862 en- gaged-in practice in this city, and was post surgeon at Ft. Ripley following the Indian outbreak. Later he had a stroke of paralysis, and was taken to New Orleans, where he died.
J. D. Wheelock, M. D., located in St. Cloud in 1865, forming a partnership with Dr. M. C. Tolman.
A. E. Senkler, M. D., was a graduate of McGill College, Toronto, Canada, coming to St. Cloud in 1865 and practicing there for a number of years in partnership with Dr. Angus McDonald, afterwards removing to St. Paul, where he died some years ago. Dr. McDonald is still engaged in practice in St. Paul.
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J. E. Couper, M. D., was a graduate of the Homeopathic Medical Col- lege at St. Louis and the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia. He came to St. Cloud in April, 1881, from Northfield, remaining only until the following August, when he went to Little Falls.
L. H. Munger, M. D., located at Fair Haven in 1879, building up a lucra- tive practice at that place.
Charles Wilson, M. D., located at St. Cloud in 1883, and after practicing there for several years, removed to Clarksville, Tenn., where it is understood he is still in practice.
T. N. Berlin, M. D., was one of the early physicians coming to this county. He arrived in 1866, coming from Pittsburgh, Pa., and was a carpenter as well as a doctor (homeopath), and carried on his trade as well as practicing his profession, in St. Cloud as well as in Rockville and other adjoining town- ships where he resided at different times. He built some of the first houses put up in St. Cloud.
Samuel H. VanCleve, M. D., removed from Mantorville to St. Cloud in August, 1900, remaining in this city until June, 1904. Before coming to St. Cloud he married Ida, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wilson, for many years residents of St. Cloud but then living in Minneapolis. His home continued to be in the latter city until his death.
W. T. Collins, M. D., came to St. Cloud from Washington City in May, 1867, remaining until April, 1876, when he went to the Black Hills, his prac- tice at St. Cloud being taken by Dr. J. C. Kinkle, a new arrival. Returning from the West to Washington, D. C., Dr. Collins occupied for a number of years a prominent position in the Pension Department. He was a cousin of the late Judge L. W. Collins.
Charles Weber, M. D., was born in Germany, February 12, 1829, died in St. Cloud in 1881. He came to the United States in 1847; was graduated at Hahnemann Medical College ; settled at St. Cloud in 1862, where he had a drug store and also practiced medicine.
Thomas J. Gray, M. D., was born in Iowa county, Wis., August 22, 1851; died in Tonopah, Arizona, January 23, 1907. He came to Minnesota in 1865; was graduated at the St. Cloud Normal School in 1872. Afterward taught there, and was its president many years; studied medicine; practiced as a physician in Minneapolis; was a professor in the medical department of the University of Minnesota, 1895-1901.
Other members of the medical profession in Stearns county of whom no sketch could be procured, with the place and date of their birth, school and date of graduation and present location, are as follows :
Edmund Lalonde; Perrit Island, 1875; Laval University, Montreal, 1899; Torah.
J. N. Lalonde, Perrit Island, 1877; Laval University, 1903; Cold Spring. Ernest A. Anderson, Arbar, Ontario, 1877; Western Medical College, 1905; Holdingford.
H. H. Hewitt, Dundee, N. Y., 1879; medical department, University of Michigan, 1902; Freeport.
H. W. Goehrs, Scranton, Pa., 1877; University of Minnesota, 1905; Melrose.
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W. J. Austin, Havana, Minn., 1874; University of Minnesota, 1905; Kimball.
Edward W. Gaag, Brown county, Minn., 1881; College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois, 1903; Zions, R. R. No. 1.
A. Ridgway, Columbus, 1855; Physicians and Surgeons, Minneapolis, 1894; Belgrade.
W. S. Leech, Lexington, Va., 1868; Louisville City Hospital College, 1890; Brooten.
William Hitchings, Sutherland, Iowa, 1884; University of Minnesota, medical department, 1908; Belgrade.
J. J. Gelz, St. Joseph, Minn., 1883; Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1909; Richmond.
Carl D. Kalset, Brooten, Norway, 1876; Hamline, medical department, 1905; Brooten.
George V. Winter, Meier Grove, 1879; Northwestern Medical School, 1911; located at Albany, died in 1913.
P. A. Hilbert, Luxemburg, 1865; University of Minnesota, medical depart- ment, 1893; Melrose.
C. S. Sutton, Prior Lake, Minn., 1884; University of Minnesota, 1909; St. Cloud.
John Eichmann, Germany, 1852; Berlin and Leipzig, 1892-3; Torah.
E. F. Green, Mechanicsville, S. C., 1875; Medical College, State of South Carolina, 1908; St. Cloud (physician at the Minnesota State Reformatory).
O. N. Warner, Blue Earth, Minn., 1885; University of Minnesota, 1912; Freeport.
P. E. Stangl, Little Falls, 1886; Rush Medical College, 1911; St. Cloud.
R. T. Glyer, Chisago, Minn., 1883; University of Minnesota, 1904; Brooten.
P. W. Wippermann, Warrenton, Mo., 1888; Warrenton, 1908; Albany.
C. E. May, Winona, 1887; Marquette Medical College, 1911; Kimball.
H. W. Arndt, Minnesota, 1888; Northwestern University, 1912; Paynes- ville.
I. L. Edmunds; Rush Medical College, 1882; Clearwater.
H. L. Lamb, Minnesota; University of Minnesota, medical department, 1902; Sauk Centre.
A. F. Maynihan ; Physicians and Surgeons, Minneapolis, 1903; Sauk Centre.
Other physicians who located for practice in different parts of the county and regarding whom no definite information can be had at this time, were :
W. R. Henderson, 1867; Alexander Rixa, 1867; A. H. Carrvill, 1871; J. C. Kinkle, 1876; F. Goetz, graduate of the Medical University of Munich, 1867; George Newlands, 1879; W. R. Henderson, 1887; C. H. Mitchell, who came from Elk River, in December, 1881; J. A. McGuire, who held the office of county physician for several years; Emil C. Erickson and A. M. Wilton, 1906; William Coburn, 1889; C. W. Anderson, 1890; R. P. Miller, 1897; O. P. Bracht, 1901; R. Grnelin, 1874; Drs. Van Capellen, Fenner and Ellis; M. Gau, one of the pioneer physicians at Melrose; S. F. Brown, who located early at Maine Prairie, and served in the Civil War; A. Mumford, of Fair Haven, deceased.
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The following named osteopathic physicians are at this time in practice in St. Cloud : Dr. J. M. Farnham, a graduate of the American School of Oste- opathy, Kirksville, Mo .; located in St. Cloud, in 1909. Drs. Mary A., Agnes and Henry Lewis.
Dr. George Wright, after a short residence in St. Cloud, left in Novem- ber, 1914, for a new location in Michigan.
CHAPTER XXIV.
DENTISTS AND DENTISTRY.
Importance of Dentistry-Pioneers in the Profession-First Dental College Opened-Ideals and Ethics-Anaesthetics-Historical Notes-Brief Biog- raphies of the Men Who Have Practiced in Stearns County-By Lawrence P. Leonard, D. D. S.
Dentistry is a great profession, which is making human life happy and long. Dentistry, the profession which is giving to humanity a greater capacity to perform their respective avocations. It does this by keeping the mouth- the cylinder of the human threshing machine-in perfect order. A man, or woman, is no better physically than the condition of his mouth. Sir William Osler at the Royal Dental Hospital, London, October 13, 1905, said that den- tistry as a profession is called upon to increase public health to improve the condition of the oral cavity and that of the digestive tract to relieve pain and beautify the race.
Dr. C. H. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., before the Chicago Dental Society, of Chicago, January 31, 1913, said: "It is evident that the next great step in medical progress in the line of preventive medicine should be made by the dentists."
There is today a great public educational wave sweeping over the coun- try teaching oral hygiene, and better mastication of food. Oral hygiene, per- fect mouth sanitation and thorough Fletcherization of the food is the tripod upon which modern dentistry rests. These primary and fundamental princi- ples of health and happiness are the trinity forged from centuries of clinical observation. And from whence came and where born this specialized dental education? In what land have been born so many great things which have given light, freedom, health and happiness to all the people of the earth? It is, in our own land, America, the home of the free and the asylum of the op- pressed.
It was in Baltimore, Maryland (O, Maryland it was fitting that this in- dependence should have taken place with thee). In 1839 Chapin A. Harris, a dentist, severed all connections with the medical school of the city of Bal- timore and founded the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. This was a specialized dental college devoted exclusively to the study of dentistry. Such a college was without precedent, but not without necessity and favorable
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auspices. From this day and this dental college, independent rays of a new era shot forth, which illuminated the world. Dentistry was then and there taken from the barber, from the priesthood, and from the medical doctors, and a diploma was given to those who specialized as "Doctor of Dental Surgery." This diploma was recognized in all states and in all countries, and even unto this day this American diploma in whatever country and upon whatever wall it may be hung, receives the choicest homage of the best people in that locality.
There has been a great desire upon the part of the dentist to lessen pain in operations. This humane motive has led to discoveries and inventions which have relegated severe suffering entirely from the modern dental office. Sir Humphrey Davy, in 1801, discovered that nitrous oxide produced insensibility, but it was not used as an anaesthetic till forty-three years later. On Decem- ber 10, 1844, Dr. Colton gave a lecture on "Laughing Gas." Horace Wells, a dentist of Hartford, Conn., was present and was impressed with its prac- tical possibilities. On the following day, December 11, 1844, he inhaled it and while unconscious had a tooth extracted. On awakening he exclaimed, "I didn't feel it. The greatest discovery of the age." Dr. W. T. G. Morton, a dentist, of Boston, first demonstrated the application of the anaesthetic prop- erties of ether in dental surgery, October 16, 1846. Grateful citizens have reared in Hartford and in Boston monuments to these dentists and posterity all over the world is being benefited by the genius and the humane spirit which actuated these two men in their tireless researches and experiments to find a mitigator-an abolisher of pain.
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