Ephraim Epstien Biography


	This biography appears on page 946 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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EPHRAIM EPSTIEN, a Russian Jew, was first president of the State 
University, at Vermillion. Was a graduate of the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of New York and of Andover Theological Seminary, and, 
having abandoned his mother faith, became a Baptist. He was a ripe 
scholar and a linguist of the highest order. He still lives in Chicago.