Frederick Arnold Brandt, M. D.


	This biography appears on page 653 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				FREDERICK ARNOLD BRANDT, M. D.

	Dr. Frederick Arnold Brandt, who has been engaged in the practice 
of medicine at Sturgis since 1904, was born in Herford, Germany, on the 
24th of September, 1880, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brandt, also 
natives of that place. The father served in the German army and was an 
officer in the war with Austria and also with France. in times of peace 
he engaged in the hotel business and both he and his wife spent their 
entire lives in the fatherland.  

	Dr. Brandt attended school at Hanover, Germany, and pursued his 
professional course in Washington University at St. Louis, from which 
he was graduated with the class of May, 1904. He came to the new world 
in his early teens and at the age of fifteen began working nights in a 
subpostal station of St. Louis while attending school in the day. He 
was thus engaged for a year, at the end of which time he accepted a 
clerkship in a drug store in St. Louis, where he was employed for eight 
years. During that time he completed his education, making arrangements 
with his employer to continue his studies in Washington University and 
thus to theoretical knowledge he was adding practical business 
experience in compounding if not in administering drugs. In the fall of 
1904 he came to Sturgis, where he opened an office and has since 
engaged in general practice as a physician and surgeon. He is very 
careful in the diagnosis of cases, his judgment is sound, his 
discrimination keen and in his practice he is meeting with excellent 
success, the general public acknowledging the efficiency and worth of 
his methods. He keeps in touch with advancement in the path of his 
profession and wide reading has made him well informed concerning the 
methods of the most progressive physicians and surgeons.  

	On the 18th of December, 1905, Dr. Brandt was married to Mrs. Ida 
Blatt, a native of Sweden. She came alone to this country when fourteen 
years of age. By her former marriage she had one child, Freda Blatt, 
now living with Dr. and Mrs. Brandt.  

	Dr. Brandt is a stalwart republican in his political views and 
has filled several local offices. He served for two terms as coroner, 
was county physician for four years, has been superintendent of the 
county board of health and at the present writing is president of the 
board of education of Sturgis. His influence is always on the side of 
advancement and improvement. He has traveled extensively and has thus 
gained that broad knowledge and culture which only travel can bring. 
His home is one of the most modern and attractively furnished in the 
western part of the state and was erected at a cost of ten thousand 
dollars. The spirit of hospitality is there supreme and it is the 
center of many delightful social gatherings. Dr. Brandt is a broad and 
liberal-minded man, progressive in every relation of life, and although 
of foreign birth, he stands today as a representative of a high type of 
American manhood and chivalry.