Henry Ernest Binger, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 770, 773 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				HENRY ERNEST BINGER, M. D. 

	Dr. Henry Ernest Binger is a practicing physician and surgeon of 
Clark and a representative of one of the pioneer families of this 
section of the state. His birth occurred in Tulare, South Dakota, 
December 11, 1885, his parents being Charles H. and Hattie (Bell) 
Binger. The father is a native of Germany and the mother of Wisconsin. 
In 1881 Charles H. Binger arrived in South Dakota, where he homesteaded 
a half mile from Tulare. He was married in this state and was one of 
the first to locate in that section in which he took up his abode, 
settling there before a railroad was built. He has lived to see a 
wonderful transformation in the district and in the work of general 
improvement and advancement has borne his share. Both he and his wife 
are still living. 

	Henry E. Binger supplemented a public-school course by study in 
Redfield College and later he entered the University of Minnesota, 
where he pursued a medical course and was graduated with the chess of 
1910. He spent a year thereafter in St. Luke's Hospital at St. Paul as 
interne, gaining that broad and valuable experience which comes only in 
hospital practice. He afterward spent three months in St. Peter's 
hospital for the Insane and on the expiration of that period arrived in 
Clark, where he opened an office and entered upon the independent 
practice of his profession. Here he has been very successful and is 
today regarded as one of the promising young physicians of the state. 
He served as health officer in 1911 and is now filling the position of 
county physician. He studies closely those questions which throw light 
upon the causes and treatment of disease and is keenly interested in 
everything that brings to man the key to the complex mystery which we 
call life. 

	On the 28th of November, 1911, Dr. Binger was united in marriage 
to Miss Vida Elizabeth De Bar, a daughter of James De Bar. They hold 
membership in the Methodist church and Dr. Binger gives his political 
allegiance to the republican party. Fraternally he is connected with 
the Masons and in his life exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the 
craft. He is also connected with Phi Beta Pi, a college fraternity. 
Along strictly professional lines his connection is with the Watertown 
District Medical Society and the South Dakota State Medical Society and 
in their meetings he learns much that is of value to him in his 
practice through the discussion of important problems engaging the 
attention of the medical profession.