Paul Hendriksen, M. D.


	This biography appears on pages 852-853 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				PAUL HENDRIKSEN, M. D. 

	Dr. Paul Hendriksen is a physician and surgeon, practicing at 
Vienna, Clark county, and throughout the surrounding district. He was 
born in Norway on the 7th of October, 1845, a son of Henry and Mary 
(Peterson) Hendriksen, who were farming people, but both are now 
deceased. Dr. Hendriksen was reared in the land of the midnight sun, 
spending his youthful days under the parental roof, during which period 
he acquired a public-school education. The favorable reports which he 
heard concerning America and her opportunities led him to cross the 
Atlantic to the United States in 1867, when he was a young man of 
twenty-two years. The following year he entered the college at Paxton, 
Illinois, conducted under the auspices of the Swedish Lutheran church, 
and there he pursued a theological course. In 1869 changes were made in 
the college, part of it being removed to Marshall, Wisconsin. Mr. 
Hendriksen went there and continued his studies until 1870. In the fall 
of that year he entered Northwestern University at Watertown, 
Wisconsin, his main object being to learn the German language. He 
remained there until 1872, in which year he returned to Norway with the 
intention of entering the Mission Institute in preparation for work in 
Africa. He began his studies in Stockholm, Sweden, pursuing a three 
years, course in medicine and theology, but the field of his labors was 
changed and in 1875 he began his work in Kansas, having charge of three 
different missions and ministering both to the physical and moral 
nature, for he engaged in the practice of medicine as well as in 
teaching gospel truths. Thirteen years passed in that way, after which 
he came to South Dakota in 1888, continuing in the work of the ministry 
until 1900. He was in Bryant from 1888 until 1895 and then came to 
Vienna. In 1898 he went to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he remained 
until 1904, when he returned to Vienna, where he has since lived. Here 
he engages in the practice of medicine and is recognized as an able 
physician and surgeon, for in the passing years he has kept in touch 
with advanced professional thought and methods. He is now interested in 
real estate in Kansas, South Dakota and Missouri. 

	On the 18th of June, 1876, Dr. Hendriksen was united in marriage 
to Miss Serina Knutsen, a daughter of Knut Peterson, of Norway, and 
their children are: Andrea, now Mrs. John Martin, of Minneapolis, 
Minnesota; Clara, a teacher at St. Joseph, Missouri; Emile, agent for 
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at Ceresco, Nebraska; Sophia, who 
is a teacher by profession but who is now residing on a claim near 
Hinsdale, Montana; Nora, who is teaching at Onida, South Dakota; 
Oliver, who is residing with his sister Sophia on the claim in Montana; 
and Matford, a student in the State Agricultural College at Manhattan, 
Kansas. Dr. Hendriksen is a Lutheran in religious faith and in that 
church has reared his family, instilling into their minds those 
principles which make for upright manhood and womanhood. His political 
endorsement is given to the republican party and his interest in the 
welfare and upbuilding of South Dakota is manifest in many tangible and 
helpful ways. Professionally he is connected with the Watertown Medical 
Society and he is now enjoying a good practice, his professional duties 
being performed in a most conscientious manner.