Bio of MACNIE, Dr. John Silliman, 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
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Vol III, pg 786-787
JOHN SILLIMAN MACNIE, M. D.
Dr. John Silliman Macnie was born in Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, New York. His
parents were Professor John Macnie and May (Silliman) Macnie, the father being a
native of Sterling, Scotland, and the mother of Connecticut.
Dr. Macnie attended preparatory school at Newburgh, New York, and when his
father was made professor in the State University of North Dakota he went with
him to that institution, from which he graduated in 1893, with a degree of
Bachelor of Arts. He received his medical degree from Columbia University, at
New York city, in 1896. In 1897 he settled in Minneapolis in general practice
until 1903, when he took postgraduate courses, specializing in eye, ear, nose
and throat work in New York, London and Vienna. He returned to Minneapolis in
1905, where he has been practicing these specialties con­tinuously, except while
in service during the late World war.
Dr. Macnie is one of the proprietors of Hillcrest Surgical Hospital, assistant
professor in the Medical Department of the University of Minnesota and
consulting surgeon of the United States health service.
In October, 1896, he was married to Miss Lorene Percival, a native of Vermont.
There are two children: John Percival Macnie and Robert Oakes Macnie.
Dr. Macnie belongs to the Minneapolis Athletic Club, the Lafayette Club and the
Automobile Club. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the
American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, the Minnesota State
Medical Society, the Minnesota Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, the
Hennepin County Medical Society and Fellows of the American College of Surgeons.
In 1923, in association with Doctors Eugene S. Strout, James A. Watson and
William E. Patterson, he helped organize the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic of
Minneapolis, located at No. 74 South Eleventh street.