William A. Kriesel, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 674-675 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	WILLIAM A. KRIESEL, M. D., one of the able and popular members of 
the medical profession, is successfully established in practice at 
Milbank. He was born in Holmesville, Laporte county, Indiana, on the 
4th of September, 1870, and is a son of August G. and Julia (Grander) 
Kriesel, both of whom were born and reared in Germany, whence they 
emigrated to Indiana, in 1862, where they remained until 1874, when 
they removed to Stillwater, Minnesota, where the father has since been 
engaged as a successful contractor and builder. His wife died in 1893, 
at the age of forty-two years, and of her three sons and four daughters 
the subject and three of the daughters are living. Dr. Kriesel received 
his early educational training in Stillwater, having been graduated 
from the high school with the class of 1891. He took up the study of 
medicine in the city hospital of Stillwater under Drs. Turner, Clark 
and Merrill. In 1893 he was matriculated in the medical department of 
Hamline University, in the city of Minneapolis, and was graduated as a 
Doctor of Medicine on the 10th of June, 1897. On the 21st of January, 
1898, he was united in marriage at Minneapolis to Miss Genevieve A. 
Loft. Dr. Kriesel located at Big Stone City, Grant county, South 
Dakota, in 1898, and was there engaged in practice for the ensuing 
eighteen months, when he removed to Milbank, where he has attained an 
excellent practice of representative order. He is a member of the State 
Medical Society and the Aberdeen District Medical Society, as well as 
the American Medical Association and the National Association of 
Pension Examining Surgeons, having served as a member of the board of 
pension examiners for Grant county since 1899. He is president of the 
county and city boards of health and is known as an able and 
discriminating physician and surgeon and as one earnestly devoted to 
the work of his chosen profession. He is identified with the Knights of 
Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. The Doctor takes a deep 
interest in public affairs of a local nature, and is an uncompromising 
Republican. He is serving as county coroner and is assistant surgeon of 
the Second Regiment of the National Guard under the rank of captain. He 
was one of the committee of physicians which formulated the bill 
regarding and governing the practice of medicine in the state as 
enacted in the last general assembly and did effective work in the 
"third house" in advocating the measure. He is examiner for a large 
number of leading life-insurance companies, notably the Fidelity 
Mutual, the Germania, the Mutual Life, the Washington Life, the 
Northwestern Mutual and the Home Life, as well as for various fraternal 
insurance orders. Dr. and Mrs. Kriesel are communicants of Christ 
Protestant Episcopal church, and are actively identified with the work 
of the parish. They have one daughter, Leotta. Their attractive 
residence is located on South Fourth street, and is a center of 
gracious hospitality.