M. Vincent Mulcahy, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on page 1369 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	M. VINCENT MULCAHY, M. D., who is successfully established in the 
practice of his profession in Vermillion, Clay county, comes of staunch 
old Irish lineage and is a native of the dominion of Canada, having been 
born in the town of Orillia, province of Ontario, on the 28th of 
January, 1868. He is the son of Thomas and Mary (Collins) Mulcahy, the 
former of whom was born in Ireland, whence he came to Canada in his 
youth, and he is still living there. His wife was a native of Canada and 
of Irish descent, and there her death occurred in 1875. Dr Mulcahy 
completed the curriculum of the public schools in his native town, being 
graduated in the Orillia high school as a member of the class of 1885. 
He then entered the medical department of the University of Toronto, 
where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated in 1889, 
while in the same year he completed a course in the Ontario College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, in the same city, receiving license to practice 
in the province of Ontario. To further advance himself in the knowledge 
of his profession the Doctor took a post-graduate course in the New York 
Polyclinic Institute in the year 1890, which fact is indicative of his 
devotion to his profession and his desire to keep in close touch with 
all advances made in the same In 1890 he entered upon the practice of 
medicine at Smith Falls, Canada, where he remained one year, at the 
expiration of which he came to South Dakota and established himself in 
practice at Elk Point, Union county, where be built up a successful 
practice, there continuing his residence until 1898, when he located in 
Vermillion, where he now controls an excellent and representative 
practice. In 1897 he took a second post-graduate course in the 
Polyclinic Institute in New York City. He served as superintendent of 
the board of health of Union county while a resident of Elk Point, and 
he is at the present time medical examiner for the New York Life 
Insurance Company, the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, the 
Northwestern Life Insurance Company, of Milwaukee, and others of 
importance. He holds membership in the South Dakota State Medical 
Society and the American Medical Association, while fraternally he is 
identified with the Masonic order, in which he has passed the capitular 
degrees; the Knights of Pythias, and the Benevolent and Protective Order 
of Elks. 

	On the 2d of October, 1892, Dr. Mulcahy was united in marriage to 
Miss Laura Fox, of Orillia, Canada, and she died on the 23d of February, 
1898, leaving one child, Vera. On the 2d of July, 1901, the Doctor 
consummated a second marriage, being then united to Miss Bertha 
Chamberlain, of Pasadena, California.