David F. Sullivan, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 787-788 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				DAVID F. SULLIVAN, M. D.  

	Seventeen years have come and gone since Dr. David F. Sullivan 
began the practice of medicine and surgery in Frankfort. His residence 
in the state covers a third of a century, for be arrived in South 
Dakota in 1882, removing from Fort Ellis, Montana, to Fort Sisseton, 
South Dakota. He was born at Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin, on the 10th of 
May, 1843, and is a son of Dennis and Catherine Sullivan, natives of 
Ireland, who crossed the Atlantic from the Emerald isle to the new 
world and took up their abode in Wisconsin, where Mr. Sullivan engaged 
in operating in the lead mines. Both he and his wife had passed away 
when David F. Sullivan was but nine years of age.  

	Dr. Sullivan acquired his education in St. Joseph College at 
Sinsinawa Mound, from which he was graduated in 1867. He then taught 
school and afterward attended the Homeopathic Medical College of 
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, then the first and only homeopathic 
medical college in the world. It later affiliated with the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, by which name it is now known. He was 
graduated in 1869, winning his professional degree. He went abroad for 
further study, entering the Royal Medical College of Dublin, Ireland, 
from which he was graduated in 1876, again receiving the M. D: degree. 
Subsequently he completed a course in the law department of the 
University of Illinois, with the class of 1897, and the degree of LL.B. 
was conferred upon him.  

	Dr. Sullivan began the practice of medicine in Philadelphia and 
thence removed to Reedsburg, Wisconsin, where he followed his 
profession for some time. He next removed to Union Center, Wisconsin, 
where in partnership with Dr. Gilluly he purchased a drug store and 
office. There he continued in practice until he went to Chicago, where 
he suffered losses through the great fire of October, 1871. He next 
went to Fort Ellis, Montana, as medical director for the Thirteenth 
United States Infantry, which position he filled until 1881, when he 
was transferred to Fort Sisseton, South Dakota. In 1882 he resigned and 
settled at Andover, Day county. He took up three quarter sections by 
homestead, preemption and soldier's declaratory. He continued to 
practice medicine and in 1897 he removed to Frankfort to take up 
actively his profession, which he followed until 1915, when he retired 
to private life. In the intervening years he made substantial progress 
in this field, his ability gaining him wide recognition as an able and 
learned physician. He has also dealt quite largely in real estate and 
is the owner of considerable farm land and city properties. He has 
improved both town and country property and has thus added much to the 
material development of the community in which he lives.  

	In 1879, at Union Center, Wisconsin, Dr. Sullivan was united in 
marriage to Miss Hattie Shannon, a daughter of William and Minnie 
(Boom) Shannon. She passed away in 1897, leaving a son and daughter. 
Dennis William, a graduate of the University of South Dakota at 
Vermillion and the Ensworth Medical College of St. Joseph, Missouri, is 
now manager of the Fort William baseball tram in the Northern League. 
He is well known as a professional ball player, having been in the 
American League for eleven years before retiring to the management of 
teams in the minor leagues. His winter seasons have been devoted to the 
acquirement of his education and to practice. In 1914 he was head 
physician at Ensworth Deaconess Hospital at St. Joseph, Missouri. He 
married Nellie M. Hanson, of Chokio, Minnesota, and they have become 
the parents of one daughter, Catherine Beatty. Nellie, a graduate of 
the State Normal School at Madison, South Dakota, is the wife of George 
Newsome, of Wardner, Idaho. They have two daughters, Georgina and Nuna. 
On the 8th of February, 1899, Dr. Sullivan was again married, his 
second union being with Mrs. Melvina Lemeaux, a native of Paris, 
France, who came to the United States with her parents. She was 
educated at the Kankakee (Ill.) convent and after marrying Peter 
Lemeaux settled in Day county in 1885. Her husband died in Frankfort in 
1898.  

	Dr. Sullivan exercises his right of franchise in support of the 
men and measures of the republican party and for four years filled the 
office of county coroner while in Day county, while for two years he 
has occupied the same position in Spink county. Fraternally he is 
connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while along 
strictly professional lines he has membership in the State Homeopathic 
Medical Association, of which he is vice president, and the State 
Eclectic :Medical Association. He did not regard his education as 
finished when he completed his university course but has since remained 
a close student of the leading textbooks and medical journals and has 
thus kept abreast of what is being done by the medical fraternity. His 
practice has embodied the latest scientific principles and his labors 
have on the whole been attended by success.