Christopher Snyder Vincent, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1689-1690 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CHRISTOPHER SNYDER VINCENT, M. D., successfully engaged in the 
practice of his profession at Wagner, Charles Mix county, was born on a 
farm in Coeymans township, near Indian Fields, Albany county, New York, 
on the 18th of March, 1845, and is a son of Asa S. and Hannah Maria 
(McClure) Vincent, both of whom were likewise born in Albany county, the 
lineage on the paternal side being of English origin and on the maternal 
of Scotch. The maternal great-grandfather of the Doctor was a clergyman 
of the Scotch Presbyterian church, and his son Daniel W., grandfather of 
our subject, was a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. 
Leonard Vincent, great-great-grandfather in the agnatic line, was an 
Englishman of means and immigrated to the state of Ne\v York while it 
was still an English colony. His eldest son, Level was born in that 
state, on the 1st of June, 1736, and the latter's eldest son, Amos, 
grandfather of the Doctor, was born about 1760. Asa S. Vincent, father 
of our subject, was born near Indian Fields, Albany county, New York, on 
the 14th of April, 1808, and it is interesting to note that the Doctor 
is the descendant of the oldest child and son in the line of five 
successive generations. 

	Dr. Vincent prepared for college in the Greenville Academy, New 
York, and was graduated in Hamilton College, at Clinton, that state, in 
1873, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while in 1876 he 
received from his alma mater the degree of Master of Arts. In the 
meanwhile, at Turin, Lewis county, New York, on the 1st of April, 1874, 
he was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, being stated 
supply for the first six months thereafter and being then installed as 
pastor, retaining the incumbency two and one-half years. During his 
active labors in the ministry the Doctor held pastoral charges in 
Norwalk, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; Springfield, Ohio; Turner's Falls., 
Massachusetts; Williamstown, New York; Auburn, Nebraska; Joplin, 
Missouri; Oakes, North Dakota, and Tyndall, South Dakota. He finally 
took up the study of medicine, and on the 2d of June, 1885, was 
graduated in the Eclectic Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine from this well-known 
institution. He was engaged in the practice of his profession for a time 
in Springfield, Ohio, and later at Dormansville, New York, while in 1897 
he established himself in practice at Tyndall, Bon Homme county, South 
Dakota, where he remained for a period of six years, at the expiration 
of which he came to Wagner, Charles Mix county, where he has built up a 
large and representative practice. While he has always been successful 
in general practice and surgery he considers that his best work has been 
accomplished in connection with the treatment of chronic diseases, to 
which he has devoted special attention and study. 

	In politics the Doctor is a staunch Republican, and of his 
religious faith we can give no more consistent statement than to quote 
his own words: "I have been an ordained minister of the Presbyterian 
church since September, 1874, honoring alike all denominations as so 
many schools in the one universal church of Jesus Christ, and cherishing 
the hope that God in his wisdom will ultimately realize the universal 
salvation of all men and angels." In a fraternal way the Doctor is 
identified with Lodge No. 212 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen at 
Auburn, Nebraska, and in 1868 he became a member of Jefferson Lodge, No. 
554, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in New York, being at the present 
time affiliated with Bon Homme Lodge, No. 101, at Tyndall, South Dakota. 

	On the 23d of April, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. 
Vincent to Miss Ella Hammond, who was born in Auburn, New York, on the 
3d of December, 1854, being a daughter of Colonel George Edmond and 
Hannah Maria (Harris) Hammond, and of the children of this union we 
enter the following brief record, the respective dates of birth being 
given in each connection: Wright A., March 1, 1875; Wheldon Jones, July 
31, 1876; Maybelle, May 14, 1878; Edmond Hammond, June 28, 1881; Paul, 
August 31, 1884, and Faith, September 30, 1892.