Bio of VELINE, Dr. Olof J. (b.1868), 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

Vol II, pg 306-309
OLOF J. VELINE, M. D.
Minneapolis lost one of her old-time medical practitioners when Dr. Olof J.
Veline was called to his final rest. He had for twenty years successfully
followed his profession in this city and had made for himself an enviable place
in public regard by reason of his personal qualifications and his professional
power. He was born on the 3d of January, 1868, in Wisseltofta, Skane, Sweden,
his parents being Jens and Bessie Veline. He pursued his early education in the
common schools and studied German under Professor Tretow to the age of thirteen
years, when he went to Bremen, Germany, and entered the Vorwaerts Academy, there
continuing until 1887. During this time he also worked, earning his way through
college. He took up the study of Latin and English in addition to other courses
and in 1886 he won the Kaiser gold medal that was given him in recognition of
his heroism in saving a boy from drowning.
Olof J. Veline determined to try his fortune in the new world and in 1887 sailed
for the United States, making his way to Stillwater, Minnesota, where he studied
in the high school for three years, being graduated with the class of 1890. He
then came to* Minneapolis, where he entered the University of Minnesota,
remaining a student for four years in this institution and in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897.
During this period he also taught school and lectured on the temperance
platform. With the completion of his course in medicine he entered upon general
practice at Kerkhoven, Minnesota, where he continued for three years and then
returned to Minneapolis. From that time until his death he was actively engaged
in practice in this city, save for the period which he spent in Europe. In 1901
he went abroad, taking postgraduate work in the universities of Berlin and of
Stockholm, pursuing a special course on diseases of the stomach. He remained in
Europe for two years and then again came to Minneapolis, where he practiced
until 1908, when he and his wife went to England, where he attended clinics in
the Royal Infirmary at Newcastle during the summer. Then followed a period of
successful practice in Minneapolis until 1914, when he once more went abroad and
attended the congress of stomach specialists in Berlin, being there at the time
war was declared. He left the night after, however, arriving in England on the
last train that was permitted to go out of the country. He at once returned to
the United States and took up his practice with office at 318 Masonic Temple,
where he continued until his demise, which occurred on the 13th of December,
1921.
Dr. Veline was married in 1908 to Miss Hazel Niederkorn, a daughter of Michael
and Hattie (Parks) Niederkorn. Her father came to the United States at the age
of four years with his parents, who settled at Port Washington. Dr. and Mrs.
Veline have one son, Ashton, who is now nine years of age. Dr. Veline was a
member of the Bethlehem Lutheran church. At the time he was a student in the
University of Minnesota he served as editor of the Oracle, a medical paper, and
in 1904 he was elected head physician for the Swedish United Sons of America, to
which position he was re-elected on four occasions-a fact indicative of his high
standing in the order and his splendid service as an executive. He was a Mason,
loyal to the teachings and purposes of the craft, and he belonged also to the
Minneapolis Athletic Club. He possessed many sterling traits of character, chief
among which was his fidelity to his professional duties, which he ever
discharged with a sense of conscientious obligation that won him the confidence
and goodwill of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as of the general
public.