Thomas T. Skogen, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 111-112 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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			THOMAS T. SKOGEN, M. D.  

	Dr. Thomas T. Skogen, physician and surgeon of Flandreau, Moody 
county, where he has maintained an office for the past fifteen years, 
is one of the well known and successful medical practitioners of 
eastern South Dakota. His birth occurred in a log cabin in Goodhue 
county, Minnesota, on the 12th of July, 1864, his parents being Tollef 
T. and Helga (Strand) Skogen, natives of Norway. They emigrated to the 
United States in young manhood and young womanhood, in 1858, and were 
married shortly after their arrival in this country. They took up their 
abode on a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota, and were among the early 
pioneer residents of that section. There they spent the remainder of 
their lives, both passing away in the year 1909.  

	Thomas T. Skogen was reared on the home farm and acquired his 
early education by attendance at the district schools, continuing his 
studies in Red Wing Seminary and at Concordia College of Moorhead, 
Minnesota. Subsequently he took up the profession of teaching and was 
thus engaged for about five years, on the expiration of which period, 
in 1896, he entered the Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
of Hamline University, being graduated from that institution with the 
class of 1900. In 1903 he pursued a post-graduate course in the Chicago 
Post Graduate Medical School and in 1913 spent some time in the clinics 
in the hospitals of San Francisco and Los Angeles. In the spring of 
1900 he had located for practice in Flandreau, South Dakota, where he 
has continued throughout the intervening fifteen years, enjoying a 
liberal and gratifying patronage that has come in recognition of his 
professional skill and ability. He keeps in touch with the progress of 
the fraternity through his membership in the Seventh District Medical 
Society, the South Dakota State Medical Society and the American 
Medical Association.  

	In the public life of his community Dr. Skogen has likewise taken 
an active part, having twice been honored by election to the office of 
mayor of Flandreau and giving the municipality a progressive, able and 
businesslike administration. He has a wide acquaintance and the circle 
of his friends is an extensive one, owing not only to his professional 
ability but also to his personal worth, which inspires admiration and 
warm regard.