Delorme W. Robinson, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on page 1482 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DELORME W. ROBINSON, M. D., Pierre, South Dakota, president 
of the state board of health, was born October 26, 1854, at Pulaski, 
Pennsylvania. He was educated at Allegheny College, Meadville, 
Pennsylvania, and received medical training in the medical department of 
Wooster University, Cleveland, Ohio, and took post-graduate work in the 
Chicago Medical School and at the Kentucky School of Medicine, 
Louisville. He located in Pierre in 1882. Dr. Robinson has attained the 
highest eminence in his profession in South Dakota and it is probable 
that he would readily be accorded the first place upon the vote of his 
co-professioners, both in general practice and surgery. His success in 
capital operations has been somewhat phenomenal, Dr. Robinson is a loyal 
citizen of his city and the state, progressive in all of his views and 
active in his support of public measures. He was the author of the first 
territorial law creating a board of health and also of the first state 
law upon the subject. He has served three terms as a member of the state 
board of health and has written extensively upon medical topics. He 
takes great interest in studious historical researches and his 
contributions to the history of the northwest are recognized 
authorities. His contributions of one hundred and fifteen notes upon 
South Dakota history, including careful studies of most of the famous 
Indians, to the first volume of the Collections of the State Historical 
Society, have won many encomiums from scholars and critics. His wife, 
the daughter of the renowned Dr. William Maxfield Blackburn, died in 
1891. He has two children, a daughter of fifteen and a son aged twelve.