Stanley B. Dickinson, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1104-1105 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

	A photo of Dr. S. B. Dickinson appears facing page 1104.

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	STANLEY B. DICKINSON, M. D., is one of the able and popular young 
members of the medical profession in the state, being successfully 
engaged in practice in Watertown, and being held in high regard in 
professional, business and social circles. The Doctor is a native of the 
state of Michigan, having been born in Benton Harbor, Berrien county, on 
the 16th of April, 1871. He is a son of Joseph and Hannah A. (Davis) 
Dickinson, the former of whom was born in the state of Michigan and the 
latter in New York. Joseph Dickinson became one of the successful fruit 
growers in the famous peach belt of Michigan, was a man who commanded 
unequivocal confidence and esteem, and died at his home in Benton Harbor 
in 1888, at the age of fifty-five years, his wife being still a resident 
of that place. The paternal grandfather of the subject was Robert 
Dickinson, who was born in England, whence he came to America as a young 
man. 

	Dr. Dickinson received his early educational training in the 
public schools of his native place and then entered the Northern Indiana 
Business Institute, in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he was graduated as a 
member of the class of 1890. The following three years he was engaged in 
managing a fruit farm in his native county, and at the expiration of 
this period entered the medical department of the State University of 
Illinois, established in the city of Chicago, where he completed the 
prescribed course and was graduated as a member of the class of 1897, 
having passed the intervening summers in further technical study, under 
the preceptorship of Dr. John Bell, of Benton Harbor. After his 
graduation, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he held for a short 
time a position as interne in West Side Hospital, in Chicago, thus 
gaining farther and valuable clinical experience. He was thereafter 
engaged in the practice of his profession in Chicago for four years, at 
the expiration of which, in 19O1, he came to South Dakota and opened an 
office in Watertown, where by his energy, ability, devotion to his 
profession and gracious personality he has built up a most gratifying 
and successful practice. While in Chicago he was for three years 
clinical instructor on diseases of children in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, while he also acted as medical examiner for the New York 
Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Prudential, of Newark, New Jersey, 
and other leading companies, as well as fraternal insurance orders. In 
politics the Doctor is an uncompromising Republican, taking a lively 
interest in the questions and issues of the hour. He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and fraternally is identified with the 
Masonic and Pythian orders, and belongs to the District, State and 
American Medical Associations. 

	On the 26th of September, 1900, Dr. Dickinson was united in 
marriage, in the city of Chicago, to Miss Nellie C. Shurtleff, who was 
born and reared in that city, being a daughter of Barzella M. and Mary 
Ellen (Sibley) Shurtleff, the former of whom was born in Illinois and 
the latter in Vermont. Mr. Shurtleff has been for many years a prominent 
commission merchant in Chicago. The Sibleys are of a prominent old 
family of New England. and related to that redoubtable Revolutionary 
hero, General Israel Putnam. Laura Bridgeman, the famous blind mute, is 
also a relative of the family. Mrs. Dickinson is a member of the Woman's 
Club and is prominent in local social circles, being an accomplished 
musician and a woman of gracious refinement. They have one son, Robert 
Sibley Dickinson.