David F. Sullivan, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1505 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DAVID F. SULLIVAN, M. D., who is actively engaged in the practice 
of his profession at Frankfort, Spink county, is a native of the Badger 
state, having been born in Hazelgreen, Grant coumty, Wisconsin, on the 
10th of May, 1849, and being a son of Denis and Catherine ( Flinn ) 
Sullivan, both of whom were born in Ireland, whence they came to America 
when young, passing the closing years of their lives in Wisconsin, of 
which great commonwealth they were early settlers. The subject was 
reared under the conditions of the pioneer era in Wisconsin, but was 
afforded excellent educational advantages in his youth. He attended 
school at Cincineway Mound, in that state, where he completed his 
preliminary work of preparation for the priesthood, while later he was 
graduated in the medical department of the famous University of Dublin, 
Ireland, while later he took a postgraduate course in the city of 
Chicago, in which city he also took a special course of study in law, in 
the International University. The Doctor began the practice of medicine 
in I876, and in 1879 was made surgeon of the Thirteenth United States 
Infantry, with which he rendered service in the line until 1883, when he 
was appointed to a similar incumbency with the Twenty-fifth Infantry, 
with which he continued as surgeon until 1884, having taken up his 
residence in South Dakota in 1885. He has been established in the 
practice of his profession in South Dakota since 1885, and has built up 
a large and representative business, while he maintains a strong hold 
upon popular confidence, esteem and affection and is a man of high 
professional attainments and general scholarship. He is one of the 
prominent and valued members of the South Dakota Homeopathic Medical 
Society, in politics is a staunch Republican, and fraternally is 
identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. 

	On the 8th of February, 1898, Dr. Sullivan was united in marriage 
to Miss Malvina Lemeuix, who was born in the dominion of Canada, in 
1864, being a daughter of Charles LaChance. Dr. and Mrs. Sullivan have 
no children. Both are devoted members of the Catholic church, in whose 
faith they were reared, while, as previously noted, the Doctor in his 
youth began preparing himself for the priesthood of the church, finally 
maturing other plans and entering the profession which he has honored 
and dignified by his able services.