Eivind Klaveness, M. D. Biography


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				EIVIND KLAVENESS, M. D.

	Dr. Eivind Klaveness, who since November, 1906, has engaged in 
the practice of medicine in Sioux Falls and is well known as an able 
physician and surgeon, specializing in dermatology and urology, and one 
who has made valuable contributions to the literature of the 
profession, was born in Sandefjord, Norway, a son of Anton Frederik and 
Birthe Marie (Anderson) Klaveness. The ancestral records can be traced 
back to 1590, the records of a prior time having been burned. These 
records are prepared by the government archivist and show an unbroken 
line. 

	In the public schools of his home town Dr. Kleveness pursued his 
early education and afterward attended the high school at Moss, Norway. 
Later he went to Drammen, where he was graduated in 1889, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts. He afterward entered the University of 
Christiania, Norway, and there in 1890 won the Doctor of Philosophy 
degree. He entered upon the study of medicine in the University of 
Christiania and on the 21st of December, 1897, was graduated, having 
completed the full course. In 1898 he was made assistant physician to 
Dr. Carlsen, government physician at Bodeo, Noorway, where he remained 
from January to April. Through the following summer he served in the 
royal navy, ranking as second lieutenant and attaining the rank of 
first lieutenant in October, 1898. He continued in the navy until 1901, 
when he was honorably discharged, and in May, of the same year, he 
crossed the Atlantic to America, thinking to find better professional 
opportunities in the new world. Making his way to Chicago, he there 
pursued a three months' post-graduate course in the Chicago Clinical 
School and in September, 1901, he located in Brookings, South Dakota, 
where he practiced for five years. He afterward sold his practice and 
left that city in June, 1906. After a temporary sojourn at Bristol 
South Dakota, he came to Sioux Falls in November, 1906, and has here 
since actively engaged in practice, winning success as his ability has 
become recognized by the general public. Since February, 1911, Dr. 
Klaveness has devoted all of his time to his specialties- dermatology 
and urology, which, with his extensive insurance business, take his 
entire attention. While studying in Europe he gave special attention to 
these branches of medicine and it was owing to the scarcity of 
population in South Dakota when he first located here that he engaged 
in general practice until 1911. His practice is now very extensive, 
extending not only over a wide district in South Dakota, but into 
northwestern Iowa and southwestern Minnesota as well.  

	His professional record is, indeed, creditable. He was county 
physician of Brookings county, South Dakota, for four years, and from 
1907 until 1909 he was attending physician to the South Dakota School 
for Deaf and Mutes. Since 1909 he has been medical director for the 
Dakota Western Assurance Company. In addition to these duties of a 
semi-public character and in addition to an extensive and growing 
private practice he has become well known as the author of various 
valuable papers upon medical subjects. Among his articles may be 
mentioned the following:

	In the Norwegian Magazine for the Science of Medicine, 1901, 
pages 236-241: "From Ellida's Winter Cruise, 1900-1901." Pages 753-761: 
"Old and New Things About Yellow Fever." Pages 1435-1446: 
"Correspondence from Chicago."

	In Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association for 1902, pages 
601-604: "About Revaccination in the Navy; A Review." 1904, pages 1015-
1020, 1906, pages 52-56, 91-93 and 123-130: "Medical Conditions in the 
Northwestern States of America." Pages 382-384: "About Medical Fees for 
Life Insurance Examinations in America."  

	In the Norwegian Journal for Military Medicine, 1900-1901, pages 
1-4: "From a Recruiting Journey in the Naval District of Bergen."  

	In Northwestern Lancet (Minneapolis) for 1903, page 170: 
"Bursitis Subdeltoidea Acuta." Page 336: "Aristochin- A New and Better 
Quinine Preparation." August, 1907, "Lichen Ruber." 

	In St. Paul Medical Journal, December, 1904: "Trauma-Psoriasis." 
March, 1906: "The Dutch Clinic (1636-1738)." November, 1906: 
"Reciprocity in Medical Licensure." " July, 1909: "Expert Testimony as 
Seen and Rendered in South Dakota." August, 1910: "The Pharmacology of 
the Salicylates." March, 1911: "President's Address." July, 1911: 
"Remarks on the Prophylaxis of Veneral Diseases." June, 1912: "Some New 
and Important Tests for Examination of Milk."

	"On the Physical Death of Man," Sioux Falls, 1907. .

	In Ny Tid (New Times) December, 1908: "Medical Superstition."

	In Auto Advocate, Detroit, 1905, October number: "Good Country 
Roads."

	In the daily press he has contributed quite frequently, mainly in 
the way of correspondence and political articles, as for instance:  

	In Aftenposten, 1895 and 1901: "Correspondence from Ellida's 
Winter Cruise."  

	In Sandefjords Blad, 1896: "Letters from My Travels."  

	In Skandinaven- Correspondences.  

	In Syd Dakota Ekko, 1903-4-5: Various political articles.  

	In Fremad, from 1902 to 1914, numerous articles of varied 
contents, mainly, however, in the form of correspondences or on 
political matters.  

	In Sioux Falls Posten, March, 1909, and August, 1912: Political 
articles.  

	Finally in the Daily Argus Leader, The Sioux Falls Daily Press 
and The American Republic of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, numerous 
articles on political questions.  

	As chief medical examiner of the Sons of Norway he has 
contributed various articles to the official paper of this order, also 
rendered a printed report of the medical department of this order for 
the years 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912 and 1914.  

	In The Medical World for 1913, June number, page 253 "Some Honors 
Go Begging."  

	On the 25th of August, 1903, in Brookings, South Dakota, Dr. 
Klaveness was united in marriage to Miss Edith W. Archer, daughter of 
Dr. F. B. Archer, of Bridgetown, Barbados, and their children are 
Francis Asthore and Helene Marie. Since becoming a naturalized American 
citizen Dr. Klaveness has given stanch support to the republican party, 
in years gone by having been one of the prominent leaders of the 
progressive faction, and fraternally he is connected with a number of 
organizations. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Mystic Shriner, 
an Odd Fellow and is likewise connected with the Sons of Norway, of 
which he has been chief medical examiner since 1907. He has held all of 
the chairs in the local organization of the Improved Order of Red Men 
and in the Great Council, at present he is the great prophet. Dr. 
Klaveness has been a member of the Southwestern Minnesota Medical 
Society since 1903; was president of the Seventh District Medical 
Society in 1910 and was a delegate from that society to the state 
association in 1911 and 1912. He is now secretary of that society. He 
recently received notice of his appointment as "honorable vice 
president of Norwegian-American Auxiliary for the Panama Pacific 
International Exposition in recognition of distinguished patriotic 
service as a citizen of the United States of America, particularly 
reflecting honor upon Norway, the land of our fathers." This 
appointment was dated December 21, 1914, and was given in response to 
recommendations of his fellow compatriots of South Dakota by officers 
of the exposition. He has never had occasion to regret his 
determination to come to the new world, for here he has found the 
opportunities which he sought and in their improvement has reached a 
prominent position in professional circles. He is a man of broad 
scholarly attainments and one with whom association means expansion and 
elevation.