Karsten Zetlitz, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on page 612 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				KARSTEN ZETLITZ, M. D. 

	Dr. Karsten Zetlitz, who since 1902 has been ranked among the 
leading surgeons of Sioux Falls, was born in Stavanger, Norway, in 
June, 1862. He is a son of Henry and Bolette (Jaeger) Zetlitz, natives 
of Norway but of German extraction. 

	Dr. Karsten Zetlitz acquired his preliminary education in the 
government paid schools of his native country and later entered 
Christiania University, graduating from the medical department of that 
institution in 1888. For ten years thereafter he served as county 
physician at Touset and he was afterward for three years and a half 
government physician at Gildeskall. He left Norway in 1902 and came to 
America, settling in the same year in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where 
he has since been engaged in practice. He gives his attention entirely 
to surgery and has had unusual success in that field, having performed 
many difficult operations most successfully. He has a large and growing 
practice and is held in high esteem by the local public and the members 
of the medical fraternity. 

	Dr. Zetlitz was married in Christiania on the 4th of April, 1889, 
and has one daughter, Ingrid. He belongs to the Norwegian Lutheran 
church, gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is 
connected fraternally with the Masonic order and the Sons of Norway. He 
holds membership in the Dacotah, the Elks and the Country Clubs, and he 
is well known in social circles of the city. Along professional lines 
he is ranked with the leading surgeons of the state and his unusual 
ability and skill are widely recognized.