Wellington J. Maytum, M. D.


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	WELLINGTON J. MAYTUM. M. D., is engaged in the practice of his 
profession in the city of Alexandria, Hanson county, and is known as an 
able and successful physician and surgeon. He is a native of the state 
of New York, having been born in Penn Yan, Cayuga county, on the 11th of 
December, 1864, and being a son of Charles and Emma Maytum. When he was 
five years of age his parents removed to Wayne county, Iowa, where his 
father engaged in milling, and there the Doctor secured his early 
educational discipline in the public schools, being graduated in the 
high school at Humeston, as a member of the class of 1885. In 1888 he 
was matriculated in the medical department of the state university of 
Iowa, at Iowa City, where he completed a thorough technical course and 
was graduated in 1891, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
Shortly after his graduation the Doctor came to South Dakota and took up 
his residence in Alexandria, where he has since been actively engaged in 
the practice of his profession, the marked success and prestige which 
have attended his efforts standing as the best voucher for his ability 
and earnest devotion to the exacting duties of his chosen vocation. In 
1896 he took a post-graduate course in the Chicago Polyclinic, and in 
1900 he again took a course of special study in this well-known 
institution, from which it is evident that he at all times keeps in 
touch with the advances made in the sciences of medicine and surgery. 
The Doctor is a member of the South Dakota State Medical Society, and 
was for six years secretary and treasurer of the same. In 1894 he was 
elected to the office of superintendent of schools of Hanson county, and 
in the connection did much to systematize and vitalize the work of 
education in his jurisdiction, holding the position for two years and 
making an enviable record. He is a staunch adherent of the Democratic 
party and takes a lively interest in public affairs of a local nature. 
Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Modern 
Woodmen of America, the Modern Brotherhood of America and the Yeomen. He 
is a skilled and successful physician, a loyal citizen and a man who 
commands unqualified confidence and esteem in the community in which he 
has lived and labored to so goodly ends. 

	On the 18th of November, 1895, Dr. Maytum was united in marriage 
to Miss Lillie May Syferd, who was born and reared in Wayne county, 
Iowa, being a daughter of John and Eliza Syferd, while she was a 
resident of Warsaw, Iowa, at the time of her marriage. Of this union 
have been born five children, namely: Charles K., Genevieve, Cecil, 
Thelma and Crystal.