Andrew L. Coyle Biography

	This biography appears on page 972-973 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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ANDREW L. COYLE,M. D. - Among the able exemplars of the medical 
profession in the state is Dr. Coyle, a young man of marked 
intellectual ability, thoroughly informed in the sciences of 
medicine and surgery, having had exceptional advantages in the 
prosecution of his studies in technical lines, while he has been 
established in the practice of his profession in Plankinton, 
Aurora county, since 1903, securing a representative support 
from the initiation of his labors here, by reason of his 
professional ability and genial and gracious personality.  

	The Doctor is a native of Jersey City, New Jersey, where 
he was born on the 15th of February, 1874, while he was thus 
reared under metropolitan surroundings and influences. After 
completing the curriculum of the public schools he was 
matriculated in Williams College, at Williamstown, 
Massachusetts, where he completed the scientific course and was 
graduated as a member of the class of 1894. He then entered the 
medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, 
where he was graduated in 1898, receiving his coveted degree of 
Doctor of Medicine. Immediately after his graduation he received 
the appointment of contract surgeon in the United States army, 
serving in that capacity for more than two years, when he 
resigned and made a tour of Europe, visiting England, France, 
Germany and other countries and availing himself of the 
advantages offered for study and investigation in the leading 
hospitals and colleges. After returning to the United States he 
made a trip to South America, where he remained about two years, 
at the expiration of which he came to South Dakota and 
established himself in practice in Plankinton, where he has 
since been actively engaged in practice. He is an independent in 
politics, and has not yet assumed connubial bonds. He is a 
member of the South Dakota Medical Association and the Phi Beta 
Pi college fraternity.