John Knox Kutnewsky, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1511-1512 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JOHN KNOX KUTNEWSKY, M. D., the efficient and honored superintendent 
of the northern hospital for the insane, at Redfield, Spink county, was 
born in Groveland, Tazewell county, Illinois, on the 20th of April, 
1858, and is a son of John and Margaret (Knox) Kutnewsky, the former of 
whom was born in Germany and the latter in Ireland, of Scottish lineage. 
The parents of the Doctor were numbered among the pioneers of Illinois, 
where the father followed the vocation of milling, and where he and his 
devoted wife continued to reside until 1883, when they moved to 
Redfield, South Dakota, where the father built the Redfield City Mills, 
and where he died in 1884. The mother, two sisters and three brothers 
moved to Salt Lake, Utah, in 1900, where they are still living. The 
Doctor availed himself of the advantages of the public schools of his 
native state and was thereafter a student in the University of Illinois, 
at Champaign, for two years, while in 1880 he was matriculated in that 
celebrated institution, Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago, 
where he was graduated in February, 1882, receiving his coveted degree 
of Doctor of Medicine and coming forth admirably equipped for the active 
work of his chosen profession. He was engaged in practice at Groveland, 
Illinois, until 1884, when he came to Redfield, South Dakota, where he 
built up a large and representative general practice, to which he 
continued to give his undivided attention until October 1, 1901, when he 
was appointed to his present responsible and exacting office as 
superintendent of the northern hospital for the insane, one of the noble 
and well-equipped institutions of the state. He is a member of the 
American Medical Association, the South Dakota State Medical Society and 
the Aberdeen District Medical Society, while in a social way he is 
affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Knights of the Maccabees. 
His political allegiance is given unreservedly to the Republican party, 
of whose principles he is a staunch advocate. 

	On the 4th of May, 1882, Dr. Kutnewsky was united in marriage to 
Miss Julia Etta Kincaid, who was born in Athens, Illinois, on the 9th of 
January, 1860, being a daughter of John K. and Vienna Williams Kincaid. 
They have two children, Walter Knox, who was born on the 7th of May, 
1883, and Edna V., who was born on the 28th of January, 1886