Frederick B. Schneerer, M. D.


	This biography appears on pages 425-426 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				FREDERICK B. SCHNEERER, M. D. 

	Dr. Frederick B. Schneerer, actively engaged in the practice of 
medicine and surgery in Deadwood, was born in Norwalk, Ohio, January 8, 
1877, a son of Frederick W. and Abbie (Cahoon) Schneerer, the former a 
native of Cleveland and the latter of Elyria, Ohio. The paternal 
grandfather was among the first homesteaders at Cleveland and the 
maternal grandfather was one of the early settlers at North Avon, Ohio. 
Dr. Frederick W. Schneerer, the father, engaged in the practice of 
medicine in early life at Norwalk, Ohio, and has continuously followed 
his chosen profession since 1874. Success has attended his efforts and 
he is today an extensive landowner in his native state. He has likewise 
held various local offices and is an influential citizen in the 
community in which he makes his home, his activities having done much 
to promote the welfare and progress of his section of the state, while 
along professional lines he has ever held to the highest standards and 
made his work of great worth to his fellowmen. To him and his wife were 
born four children, of whom Frederick B. is the eldest. Karl E. is now 
a practicing physician and surgeon of Norwalk, Ohio. Mary C. is the 
wife of Herbert E. Parker, secretary of the Young Men's Christian 
Association at Plainfield, New Jersey. Theodore Cahoon is an active 
representative of the medical fraternity at Los Angeles, California. 

	Dr. Frederick B. Schneerer attended the public schools of 
Norwalk, Ohio, until he had completed the high-school course, after 
which he entered Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio, and then spent a year 
at Cincinnati in 1900. He won the Ph. G. degree upon the completion of 
a course of study in the normal school at Valparaiso, Indiana. He 
completed his course in medicine at the Bennett Medical College of 
Chicago with the class of 1902 and thus completed his preparation for 
his profession. During his schooldays he had worked at intervals 
through vacations and he practiced medicine for one year before 
reaching the age of twenty-five. He came west to Deadwood, arriving in 
August, 1903, and there he has since remained, an able and active 
member of the medical profession. Reading and research have kept him in 
touch with the advanced thought of the day and have brought him 
understanding of the most modern scientific methods of medical and 
surgical practice. He is also a landowner in Ohio and in Montana. In 
April, 1898, he enlisted in the Hospital Corps of the Sixteenth Ohio 
Regiment, which was changed to the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
had charge of the hospital department. He served for two years in the 
army, spending eight months of that time in Cuba. He suffered an attack 
of typhoid fever at Chickamauga Park, where he remained for three 
months before going to Cuba. He is a member of the South Dakota 
Eclectic Medical Society, the National Eclectic Medical Association, 
the Ninth District 31~dical Society and the American Medical 
Association. 

	On the 6th of July, 1904, Dr. Schneerer was united in marriage to 
Miss Verda Mary Phillips, who was born in Montreal, Canada, a daughter 
of Harry and Matilda (Barr) Phillips, natives of England and Edgewood, 
Iowa, respectively. The father is now a contractor at Deadwood. To. Dr. 
and Mrs. Schneerer have been born two children, Verda Louise and Helen 
Mary. 

	Dr. Schneerer is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he 
has attained high rank. He belongs to the blue lodge at Deadwood, in 
which he served as master in 1906 and 1907. He is a consistory Mason, 
having attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, he also 
belongs to the York Rite bodies and he is a member of the Mystic 
Shrine. He is also exalted ruler of the Elks. His religious faith is 
that of the Methodist Episcopal church and his political belief that of 
the republican party, but the only offices which he has held have been 
along the strict path of his profession. He has served as city 
physician, as county physician, as pension examiner and as a member of 
the board of health. He holds to high professional ideals and utilizes 
every opportunity for advancing to the high standards which he has set 
up.