Frithiop N. H. Gyllenhammar, M. D. Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRITHIOP N. H. GYLLENHAMMAR, M. D., of Gayville, Yankton county, 
was born in Sweden, on the 8th of February, 1857, being a son of Lars G. 
and Catherine M. (Samuelson) Gyllenhammar. From 1632 to the present time 
the subject's ancestors and himself have been noblemen in their native 
land, the Doctor's name, with the other members of the family, being 
registered in the noblermen's calendar at Stockholm, Sweden. Mrs. Anna 
Carlson, the Doctor's sister, who is his housekeeper, was widowed in 
Sweden, her husband having been a civil engineer. The Doctor was reared 
in his native land and his more purely literary education was secured in 
Linkoping College, where he continued his studies until he had completed 
the prescribed course of the college. About the year 1882 he took up the 
study of medicine and surgery, under most effective preceptorship, and 
in 1884 he emigrated from the far northland to the United States, 
locating in the city of Duluth, Minnesota, where he continued his 
technical studies under the direction of Dr. W. H. McGee, and while a 
resident of that city he also familiarized himself with the English 
language, so that he became well qualified for taking up his active 
labors in the country of his adoption. In the autumn of 1887 the Doctor 
was matriculated in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city 
of St. Louis, Missouri, where he completed the prescribed course, being 
graduated as a member of the class of 1891, and receiving his degree of 
Doctor of Medicine on the 10th of March of that year. He passed the 
ensuing summer in that city and in the autumn removed to Sioux City, 
Iowa, where he built up a successful practice, continuing to there 
follow his profession until the autumn of 1894, when he came to South 
Dakota and located in the city of Yankton, where he was engaged in 
practice for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of which he came 
to Gayville, which has ever since been the field of his earnest and 
successful endeavors in the work of his noble profession, in which he 
has gained marked prestige and the concomitant confidence and esteem of 
the community. 

	Since coming to South Dakota Dr. Gyllenhammar has served about 
five years as a member of the board of pension examiners for Yankton 
county, and he is held in high regard by his professional confreres in 
the state, while his ability and pleasing personality have brought to 
him a representative support in his chosen field of labor. In politics 
he accords a stanch support to the Republican party and his religious 
faith is that of the Lutheran church. He is a member of the South Dakota 
State Medical Society, the Sioux Valley Medical Association and the 
American Medical Association, while fraternally he is identified with 
the Knights of the Maccabees and the Mutual Benefit Association. He is 
also president of the Yankton District Medical Association. The Doctor 
is the owner of a pleasant and well-appointed home in Gayville, in which 
he has a large library of well-selected books, both professional and 
scientific. The Doctor is not married, and his sister presides over the 
domestic affairs of his pleasant home, while in the family circle are 
two adopted children, George and Hilda Heloise.