William Edward Fehliman, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1074-1077 (No pages 1075-1076) 
	in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, 
	Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice 
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				WILLIAM EDWARD FEHLIMAN, M. D. 

	Among the up-to-date and successful physicians and surgeons of 
Lead is Dr. William Edward Fehliman, who has gained a high place in 
local circles of his profession. He was born near Goshen, Indiana, on 
the 16th of September, 1880, a son of Robert and Amanda (Gonzer) 
Fehliman. The father was born in Berne, Switzerland, and as he was 
early left an orphan, came to America with two brothers when but a 
child of eight years. They settled in Ohio in 1857 but shortly 
afterward went to De Kalb county, Indiana, where Robert Fehliman 
learned the carpenter's trade. In 1861 he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth 
Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served for four years and three months 
as a private. He later followed his trade in the United States Army for 
one year, but at the end of that time returned to De Kalb county, 
Indiana, and in 1867 removed to the vicinity of South Omaha, Nebraska. 
In 1868 he homesteaded in the Elkhorn valley there. He and his wife 
both survive and make their home in Cuming county, Nebraska. He is 
living retired, as his former labor enabled him to accumulate more than 
a competence, and the evening of his life is being spent in well earned 
ease. 

	Dr. Fehliman is the fifth in order of birth in a family of nine 
children. He was reared in Cuming county, Nebraska, and his elementary 
education was acquired in a log schoolhouse. He subsequently attended 
the high school of Beemer, Nebraska, from which he was graduated. After 
leaving school he became a railway telegraph operator, working in that 
capacity for the Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy, the Northern Pacific and the Oregon Short Line Railroads. Owing 
to operator's paralysis he gave up this work and entered the Fremont 
Normal School at Fremont, Nebraska, where he prepared himself for the 
study of medicine. After a year spent there he matriculated in 1902 in 
Rush Medical College, the medical department of the University of 
Chicago. In 1906 he received his degree of M. D. and completed his 
professional preparation by two years spent as an interne. For six 
months of that time he was in the Milwaukee General Hospital and for 
eighteen months was interne of the Cook County (Ill.) Hospital. In 
July, 1908, he came to Lead, South Dakota, and opened an office for the 
practice of his profession. In the intervening years he has built up a 
reputation as a successful physician and surgeon, being an able 
diagnostician and using the most approved methods of treatment. He 
keeps in touch with the latest developments in the fields of medical 
and surgical research and gives his patients the benefit of the 
constantly increasing knowledge of the medical fraternity. He is a 
member of the Black Hills Medical Society and the South Dakota State 
Medical Society and takes a great interest in their proceedings. 

	In January, 1911, Dr. Fehliman was united in marriage with Miss 
Lola Shackleford, of Lead. The Doctor is a member of Beemer (Nebr.) 
Lodge, No. 253, A. F. & A. M.; Golden Belt Chapter, No. 35, R. A. M., 
of Lead; and Lead Commandery, No. 18, K. T. He affiliates with the 
republican party but has not been active in politics. Since 1909 he has 
been superintendent of the Lawrence county board of health and has done 
able work in that connection, paying especial attention to public 
hygiene. He is fond of outdoor life and finds much of his recreation in 
hunting. Professionally he holds the respect of his colleagues and of 
the public, and as a man and citizen is held in high esteem by all who 
know him, as in all relations of life he conforms his conduct to high 
ethical standards.