Cyrus Leroy Wendt, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 816-817 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				CYRUS LEROY WENDT, M. D. 

	Dr. Cyrus Leroy Wendt, actively engaged in the practice of 
medicine and surgery and enjoying a creditable and deserved reputation 
as a physician, was born in Davis, Illinois, on the 18th day of May, 
1873, and is a son of Ernest and Fredericka (Meinzer) Wendt. The family 
came to South Dakota in 1875 and settled two miles south of Canton, 
where the father conducted a store for many years, being one of the 
early and leading business men of that city. At the present writing, 
however, he is living retired, having gained a competence which enables 
him to put aside business cares and enjoy a well earned rest. 

	After attending the public schools of Canton, Dr. Wendt continued 
his studies at Brookings, South Dakota, and in the Northwestern Indiana 
Normal School at Valparaiso. Later he became a student in Rush Medical 
College of Chicago and on the 22d of May, 1895, was graduated 
therefrom. Still anxious to make further advancement in preparation for 
his life work, after completing his course he also spent seven months 
in the Charity Hospital of Berlin, Germany, gaining during that period 
the practical experience which only hospital service can bring. He then 
returned and located in his home town on the 1st of January, 1896, and 
in the intervening years to the present he has enjoyed a liberal share 
of the public patronage. His ability is generally recognized and it is 
well known that thorough study and broad reading keep him in touch with 
the onward march of the profession and the trend of thought in 
scientific medical investigation. In addition to his other interests he 
is a stockholder in the Farmers Lumber Yard and still other business 
enterprises. He is particularly fond of live stock and has opportunity 
to indulge his taste in that direction. Along strictly professional 
lines he has been active, being an officer of the board of health and 
county physician. He has been physician for various life insurance 
companies, almost twenty in number. He has extensive land holdings in 
different parts of the state which he operates through the aid of 
promising young farmers, receiving a portion of the crop as rent. 

	On the 22d of December, 1896, Dr. Wendt was united in marriage to 
Miss Edna Dean, a daughter of Edgar and Vina Dean, and they have one 
child, F. Lucile, who is attending high school. Dr. Wendt and his wife 
hold membership in the Methodist church, are actively interested in its 
work and give generously to its support. He votes with the republican 
party but has neither sought nor held office outside of the strict path 
of his profession. Fraternally he is connected with Silver Star Lodge, 
No. 4, F. & A. M., and is in hearty sympathy with the plans and 
purposes of the craft. His interest centers, however, most largely upon 
his professional duties, which he meets with a sense of conscientious 
obligation. He realizes fully the responsibilities that devolve upon 
the practitioner of medicine and surgery and he is most careful in the 
diagnosis of his cases and in the care of his patients. His patronage 
is steadily increasing and he is today accounted one of the leading 
representatives of the profession in southeastern South Dakota.