Eli M. Morehouse, M. D. Biography


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	ELI M. MOREHOUSE, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of his 
chosen profession in the city of Yankton, is a native of the state of 
Minnesota, having been born in Owatonna, Steele county, on the 30th of 
August, 1869. He is a son of Dr. Eli M. and Lorinda (McRostie) 
Morehouse, to whom were born four children, the subject of this sketch 
being the oldest, while the others are as follows Effie, who is the 
wife of John W. Adsit, of Owatonna, Minnesota; Timothy N., who is the 
proprietor of the Owatonna hotel, in that place; and Dr. Guel G., who 
is a physician of Chicago, Illinois. The father of the subject was born 
in Warren, Ohio, in the year 1833, his parents being representatives of 
staunch old families of New England stock, while the original ancestors 
in Ohio emigrated thither from the state of Connecticut. Eli M. 
Morehouse was reared to manhood in Ohio and as a youth determined to 
devote his attention to the medical profession as a vocation. In 
harmony with this idea he finally entered the Eclectic Medical 
Institute, at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he continued his studies for a 
time, after which he was a student in the medical department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, in  Philadelphia, and in a homeopathic 
medical college in Cleveland, Ohio. After securing his degree of Doctor 
of Medicine he located in Independence, Iowa, where he was successfully 
engaged in practice for two years, at the expiration of which he 
removed to Owatonna, Minnesota, where he continued his professional 
work until his death, which occurred on the 23d of May, 1891. He was a 
man of spotless character and one of marked ability in the line of his 
profession. In politics he was an ardent advocate of the principles of 
the Democratic party, and was a power in its councils in the state 
where he resided. He served as a member of the state senate of 
Minnesota and at the time of his death was mayor of the city of 
Owatonna, while he had been incumbent of various other offices of 
public trust and responsibility, ever commanding unqualified confidence 
and esteem in the state where he so long maintained his home, while he 
was prominently identified with both the Masonic and Odd Fellows' 
fraternities. His widow still retains her 'home in Owatonna, where her 
friends are in number as her acquaintances.  

	Eli M. Morehouse, the immediate subject of this sketch, was 
reared to maturity in his native town, acquiring his early educational 
discipline in the public schools, while he early manifested a 
predilection for the profession in which his father had won so marked 
distinction and success, and under the direction of the latter he began 
the study of medicine while he was still a boy. In 1887, together with 
five other young men who had been prosecuting their medical studies 
under the preceptorship of his father, went to Des Moines, Iowa, where 
they were matriculated in the medical department of Drake University, 
and he there continued his technical studies two years, while in 1897 
he entered the Bennett Medical College, of Chicago, and was graduated 
in this well known institution of eclectic medicine in the spring of 
1901. He thereafter passed a short interval in Minnesota, after which 
he came to Yankton, where he opened an office and engaged in the 
general practice of medicine and surgery, bringing to bear the most 
thorough preparation and the personal attributes which always make for 
success in this most exacting of all professions. He has succeeded in 
building up a practice of representative character, and his reputation 
is one which would be creditable to one who had been for many years 
established in practice, for comparative youth is no longer held as 
inimical to professional precedence in cases where absolute ability and 
skill are in evidence. In politics the Doctor accords a staunch 
allegiance to the Democratic party, and while a resident of Owatonna, 
Minnesota, he served as a member of the board of aldermen and also as a 
member of the board of education. Fraternally, he is affiliated with 
the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias and he is popular in both 
professional and social circles, being a member of the Minnesota State 
Eclectic Medical Society and keeping in close touch with all advances 
made in the sciences of medicine and surgery.  

	On the 28th of January, 1897, Dr. Morehouse was united in 
marriage to Miss Winifred L. Hanna, of St. Lawrence county, New York, 
where she was born and reared, being a daughter of James and Sarah 
Hanna.