Frank P. Smith, M. D. Biography

	This biography appears on page 1011 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	FRANK P. SMITH, M. D., one of the prominent and honored members of the 
medical profession in Canton, Lincoln county, was born at Rouse Point, 
Clinton county, New York, on  the 2d of November, 1852, his father being 
a farmer by vocation. The Doctor was thus reared on the old homestead, 
and received his early educational discipline in the common schools of 
his native county, while later he prosecuted his studies in the high 
school at Burlington, Vermont, where he was graduated as a member of the 
class of 1872. He then returned to his home in New York and assisted in 
the work and management of the farm until he had attained the age   of 
twenty-four years, having in the meanwhile determined to prepare himself 
for the medical   profession. For a time he was a student in the Albany 
Medical College, in the capital city of the   Empire state, and then was 
matriculated in the celebrated Bellevue Hospital Medical College in   
the city of New York, in which he was graduated in 1877, receiving his 
coveted degree of   Doctor of  Medicine and coming forth well fortified 
for the practical work of his chosen   vocation. He at once entered upon 
the practice of his profession in his old home town of Rouse Point, 
where he remained two years, at the expiration of which, in 1879, he 
came to the territory of Dakota and located in Canton, where he has ever 
since been successfully engaged   in the practice of his profession, 
being one of the leading physicians and surgeons of this section   of 
the state anal being known to practically every person in the county. He 
was the first   superintendent of the board of health of the county, 
retaining this incumbency many years, while   he also served long and 
faithfully as county physician and as local surgeon of the Chicago,   
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. For sixteen years he was a member of the 
board of pension examining surgeons for Lincoln county, and has been 
secretary of its board since 1886. He is a Democrat in politics, and has 
ever shown a deep interest in the industrial, civic and political 
progress of his adopted city, county and state.  

	On the 4th of October, 1893, Dr. Smith was united in marriage to 
Miss Helen Miller, who was born in the state of Wisconsin, being a 
daughter of William H. Miller, Sr.