Charles Marvin Hollister, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 262-265 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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			CHARLES MARVIN HOLLISTER, M. D.  

	Dr. Charles Marvin Hollister is a prominent representative of the 
medical profession, practicing in Pierre, where he represents the 
Chicago Northwestern Railroad as district surgeon, and is also 
physician to the Pierre Indian School. He has ever held to high 
professional standards and continuous reading and investigation have 
constantly broadened his knowledge and promoted his efficiency. He 
keeps in touch with the onward march of the profession nor lacks the 
discrimination that enables him to readily determine between the 
worthless and the valuable in the ideas that are advanced in relation 
to medical practice. Mr. Hollister is a native of Pawlet, Vermont, born 
September 1, 1867. His parents are Francis S. and Julia L. Hollister, 
the former a veteran of the Civil war. The family was represented in 
the Revolutionary war by Captain Asbel Hollister, who valiantly fought 
for the independence of the nation. In the maternal line the ancestry 
can be traced back to the duke of York  

	Liberal educational advantages were afforded Charles Marvin 
Hollister, who supplemented his public-school training by a course in 
Williams College of Massachusetts, in which he was graduated with the 
class of 1892, the Bachelor of Arts degree being then conferred upon 
him. For his professional training he entered the University of 
Pennsylvania and won his M. D. degree as a member of the class of 1895. 
He immediately entered upon practice and his professional career has 
been one of growing success. He was physician and surgeon and also 
athletic director at Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, for three 
years. Subsequently he became athletic director and lecturer on 
physical culture and hygiene at the Northwestern University at 
Evanston, Illinois, where he remained for four years. He has been a 
resident of Pierre since 1905 and at the present time is district 
surgeon for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, is physician and 
surgeon to the Pierre Indian School and was formerly president of the 
pension examining board. While at Beloit he served as superintendent of 
the board of health and also filled that office in Pierre, but retired. 
He is likewise a member of the board of education and is the present 
county coroner of Hughes county. His political allegiance has always 
been given to the republican party. 

	On the 4th of September, 1895, at Cooperstown, New York, Dr. 
Hollister was united in marriage to Miss Regina S. Reustle, a daughter 
of J. F. Reustle, a veteran of the Civil war. Dr. and Mrs. Hollister 
have one child, Regina. The parents are communicants of the Trinity 
Episcopal church, in which Dr. Hollister is serving as warden. He has 
held various offices in different fraternities and is now worshipful 
master of Pierre Lodge, No. 22, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to Pierre 
Chapter, No. 22, R. A. M., and Pierre Commandery, K. T., and is 
likewise a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Blunt, the 
Maccabees, the Mutual Benefit Association and the Fraternal Order of 
Eagles. He is also connected with the Commercial Club, the Tennis Club 
and the Golf Club, and holds membership in Alpha Tau Omega, a college 
fraternity, and in the Pepper Society, a medical fraternity. Along 
strictly professional lines he is identified with the Fourth District 
Medical, the State Medical and the Tri-State Medical Associations and 
the American Association of Railway Surgeons. He holds to high 
professional standards, is most careful in the diagnosis of his cases 
and in matters of professional judgment is seldom, if ever, at fault.