Bio of GORGEN, Dr. Edward (b.1872), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

EDWARD GORGEN, D.D.S. - Vol II, pg 245-246
Dr. Edward Gorgen, who has been actively engaged in the practice of dentistry in
Minneapolis since 1900, is widely recognized as one of the able and successful
representatives of the profession in this city. His birth occurred in Steele
county, Minnesota, on the 7th of February, 1872, his parents being Giles and
Helen (Rockwold) Gorgen, both of whom were natives of Norway and when still
quite young, came to the new world, and settled in Steele county, this state.
Giles Gorgen followed farming in early manhood but subsequently turned his
attention to merchandising, conducting an enterprise of that character at New
Richland, Minnesota. He passed away in 1906. His widow survived him for seven
years, her death occurring in 1913.
Edward Gorgen, the youngest in a family of three sons, obtained his early
education in the public schools of New Richland and afterward continued his
studies in the University of Minnesota, from which institution he was graduated
with the degree of D. M. D. in 1899. He later pursued a law course in the
Lincoln and Jefferson University, being graduated therefrom with the degree of
LL. B., and subsequently took up the practice of dentistry at Fairmont,
Minnesota. It was in the year 1900 that he came to Minneapolis, where he has
followed his profession continuously to the present time and has built up an
extensive and lucrative practice. He displays marked skill in the use of the
many delicate little instruments which constitute the equipment of the modern
dentist and his proficiency in every phase of the work is widely acknowledged.
On the 7th of February, 1901, in Minneapolis, Dr. Gorgen was united in marriage
to Miss Sophia Hammer, a daughter of Mrs. Sophia Hammer and a representative of
an old and honored family of this part of the state. They have become parents of
three children, namely: Earl Cyrus, Ray Edward and Elizabeth June.
Politically Dr. Gorgen is an active republican and his religious faith is
indicated by his membership in the Westminster Presbyterian church. Fraternally
he is a Scottish Rite Mason and member of Zuhrah Temple of the Mystic Shrine and
he also belongs to the Minneapolis Athletic Club, the Superior Golf Club and the
Commonwealth Club, while along strictly professional lines he is connected with
the district, state and national dental associations. During the period of the
World war he served as a member of the executive board in connection with the
draft. In golf, hunting and fishing he finds pleasure and recreation when
opportunity permits, but the demands of his practice leave him comparatively
little leisure. He has never regarded his professional education as ended with
the completion of his college course but has ever remained a close and
discriminating student of the science of dentistry, and his pronounced skill and
ability are not only attested by his fellow practitioners but by the general
public as well.