H. Holmgren, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1893-1894 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	H. HOLMGREN, M. D., of Canton, Lincoln county, was born in the 
picturesque old city of Stockholm, Sweden, and was there reared to 
maturity, having received liberal educational advantages in the fair 
land of his birth. At the age of twenty-six years he came to America 
and located in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, where he at once began 
a course of study in the Beaumont Hospital Medical College, completing 
the prescribed curriculum and being graduated with the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine. Soon afterward he located in the city of Ishpeming, 
in the upper peninsula of the state of Michigan, where he was actively 
engaged in practice until he came to South Dakota and established 
himself in practice at Alcester, Union county. He remained there only a 
short interval and then came to Canton, where he has since resided, 
having here built up a large and representative practice. He 
established the Canton hospital, which he has since successfully 
managed, the institution being specially well equipped and exercising 
most beneficent functions. He is popular in all classes of society, is 
a man of high intellectual and professional attainments, and is an 
acquisition to the medical fraternity and citizenship of the state.