P. H. A. Pinard, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 672, 675 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				P. H. A. PINARD, M. D. 

	Dr. P. H. A. Pinard is a leading citizen and prominent physician 
and surgeon of Jefferson, South Dakota, where he has practiced his 
profession continuously for the past third of a century. His birth 
occurred in the province of Quebec, Canada, on the 17th of October, 
1853, his parents being Noel and Emma (Steyr) Pinard, both of whom were 
natives of France. They emigrated to Canada as boy and girl with their 
respective parents and in that country attained manhood and womanhood 
and were married In early life Noel Pinard was a professor in the Model 
School in Nicolette, province of Quebec, but later became connected 
with the lumber industry and became a large holder of mill property. 
This, however, was wiped out by floods and in 1868 he removed to 
Meriden, Connecticut, where he embarked in the grocery business. There 
he continued to reside until his death in 1886, while his wife passed 
away in 1870.

	P. H. A. Pinard, who was in his fifteenth year at the time of his 
parents' removal to Connecticut, remained in his native country to 
complete his education in Laval University of Quebec, from which 
institution he was graduated in the class of 1870 with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. In the same year he was graduated from the Military 
School of Quebec with the rank of captain. He joined his parents in 
Meriden, Connecticut, and took up the study of medicine, reading under 
the preceptorship of a Dr. Fisk. Subsequently, however, in order to 
obtain the means to continue his professional training, he secured a 
position with the Meriden Britannia Company, for which concern he 
worked during his college vacations. In the fall of 1874 he entered the 
American MedicaI School in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated 
with the class of 1877. In 1885 he matriculated in the College of 
Physicians & Surgeons at St. Louis, Missouri, completing the course in 
that institution by graduation with the class of 1887. His first 
location as a practitioner was made in the fall of 1877, at Fall River, 
Massachusetts, where he remained until 1881. He next spent about six 
months in Clifton, Illinois, and then removed to Jefferson, South 
Dakota, arriving there on the 2d of July, 1881, and having remained 
there in active and successful practice to the present time. In 1895 he 
pursued a post-graduate course at the New York Post Graduate Medical 
School and in 1906 did post-graduate work in the Chicago Polyclinic. He 
had been a lifelong student of his profession and has ever kept abreast 
with the steady advancement of the medical science as a member of the 
Sioux Valley Medical Society, the South Dakota State Medical Society 
and the American Medical Association. For two terms he served as county 
physician of Union county and for three terms held the office of county 
coroner, making a most creditable and commendable record in both 
connections. Dr. Pinard is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator 
Company and in the Jefferson & Civil Bend Telephone Company and owns 
about five hundred acres of valuable farm land in Union county. He has 
likewise conducted a drug store in Jefferson during the past quarter of 
a century and has been accorded a gratifying patronage in this 
connection. 

	On the 4th of February, 1878, Dr. Pinard was united in marriage 
to Miss Emma Bibo, who is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a 
lady of French extraction. They have seven children, as follows: 
Walter, who is a druggist of Vincent, Iowa; Carl J., a practicing 
physician of Gary, South Dakota; Romeo J., who is an undertaker of 
Oakland, California; Nettie, the wife of Arthur Stroebel, of Elk Point, 
South Dakota; Bertha, who gave her hand in marriage to A. A. Camp and 
resides in Los Angeles, California; Etta, the wife of Joseph Staska, of 
Wagner, South Dakota; and Pearl, who is the wife of W. E. Lemire, of 
White Cloud, Michigan. 

	Dr. Pinard was sent as a delegate to the territorial convention 
held in Huron, in 1889, to bring about the territory's admission to the 
union as a state. He has been a stanch friend of the cause of education 
and for more than fifteen years was a member of the school board, doing 
able service in the interests of education. He was the incorporator of 
Jefferson and he has been prominently identified in many ways with its 
upbuilding and growth. Fraternally he is identified with Epiphany 
Council, No. 743, of the Knights of Columbus, and Sioux City Lodge, No. 
112, of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is a devout 
communicant of the Catholic church, to which his wife and children also 
belong. The varied interests of life are in him well balanced forces 
and he is continually proving the strength and sanity of his position 
by his cooperation in those movements which work for progress and the 
public good.