Andreas A. Wipf, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on page 1219 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ANDREAS A. WIPF, M. D., was born in southern Russia, on the 12th 
of September, 1868, being a son of Andreas and Susan (Glanzer) Wipf, to 
whom were born five children, namely: Sarah, who is the wife of Joseph 
G. Gross, of Hutchinson county; Joseph A., who is engaged in farming in 
this county; Susan, who is the wife of Andrew R. Hofer, a farmer of this 
county; Anna, who remains at the parental home; and Andreas Albert, the 
immediate subject of this sketch. The Wipf family traces back to Swiss 
origin, but has been established in Russia for fully a century, 
representatives of the name having removed from Switzerland into Tyrol, 
Austria, and thence into southern Russia, where both parents of our 
subject were born and reared. In 1875 they emigrated to America and came 
to Hutchinson county, South Dakota, where the father entered a homestead 
claim on Wolf Creek, five miles southwest of the present town of 
Bridgewater, and there he improved a valuable farm, upon which he died, 
and where his estimable wife still continues to make her home, being 
numbered among the honored pioneers of the county. 

	Dr. Wipf was seven years of age at the time when the family came 
from Russia, and he was reared to maturity in South Dakota, his youthful 
days being devoted to working on the home farm and attending the common 
schools. Later he entered the Dakota University, at Mitchell, and 
finally was matriculated in the University of South Dakota, in 
Vermillion, where he continued his scholastic discipline. He then 
devoted three winters to teaching in the district schools, engaging in 
farm work during the summer seasons. In 1891 he took up the study of 
medicine, and in the fall of that year entered that celebrated 
institution, Rush Medical College, in the city of Chicago, where he 
completed the prescribed course under the most favorable auspices, being 
graduated in the spring of 1894, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
Shortly afterward the Doctor opened an office in Freeman, where he has 
since been established in the practice of his profession and where he 
has attained distinctive prestige as an able and discriminating 
physician and surgeon. He is a stalwart supporter of the Republican 
party, but has never held office, save that of county coroner, in which 
capacity he served four years. He is a member of the South Dakota State 
Medical Society and is held in high esteem by his professional 
confreres. Fraternally he is identified with Eureka Lodge, No. 71, Free 
and Accepted Masons; Scotland Chapter, No. 31, Royal Arch Masons; 
Oriental Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; El Riad Temple, 
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the latter two 
being organized in the city of Sioux Falls, and he is also affiliated 
with the lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen at Bridgewater and 
the camp of the Modern Woodmen of America at Menno. The Doctor is the 
owner of a fine farm of one hundred and eighty-five acres, located three 
miles northeast of Freeman, in Turner county. 

	On the 26th of June, 1894, Dr. Wipf was united in marriage to Miss 
Dorothea Hoellwarth, of Hutchinson county, and they are the parents of 
six children, namely: Claudia, Adeline, Alice, Alfred, Lilly and Kurt.