John B. Eagan, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 787-788 in "History of Dakota 
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				JOHN B. EAGAN, M. D.  

	Dr. John B. Eagan, a member of the firm practicing as Drs. Grove, 
Eagan &i Grove in Dell Rapids, is widely known as one of the able and 
successful young physicians and surgeons of eastern South Dakota. His 
birth occurred in Iowa county, Wisconsin, on the 27th of December, 
1881, his parents being Frank J. and Catherine (Gallagher) Eagan, the 
former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Wisconsin. They were 
married in the Badger state, to which the father had been taken as a 
child by his parents. Frank J. Eagan was for a number of years engaged 
in the drug business at Muscoda, Wisconsin, but recently has been in 
the service of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway at Muscoda, 
where he still makes his home.  

	John B. Eagan was reared under the parental roof and obtained his 
education in the public schools of Muscoda, Wisconsin, completing the 
high-school course with the class of 1901. In the fall of that year he 
took up the study of medicine, entering the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in Chicago, the medical department of the University of 
Illinois, from which institution he was graduated in 1905. Subsequently 
he spent some months in seeking a desirable field for his professional 
labors and in the summer of 1906 located at Excelsior, Wisconsin, where 
he was successfully engaged in practice for about three years. On the 
expiration of that period he came to South Dakota and for about ten 
months maintained an office in Woonsocket, this state. It was on the 
1st of February, 1910, that he took up his abode in Dell Rapids, where 
he has remained continuously since. During the first year of his 
residence here he was employed by Dr. Martin M. Grove, and in February, 
1911, a copartnership was formed between Drs. Eagan and Grove. On the 
1st of February, 1914, Dr. A. F. Grove became a member of the firm, 
which is now practicing under the name of Drs. Grove, Eagan &; Grove. 
They conduct a hospital containing thirty five beds and do the 
principal major surgery of their section of the state. Dr. Eagan has 
firmly established himself in public regard and has also won the 
recognition of his fellow practitioners through his ability and close 
conformity to professional ethics. He is a member of the Sioux Valley 
Medical Society, the Seventh District Medical Society of Sioux Falls, 
the South Dakota State Medical Society and the American Medical 
Association.  

	On the 15th of June, 1909, Dr. Eagan was united in marriage to 
Miss Margaret Meier, of Muscoda, Wisconsin, by whom he has a son, John 
C. He is identified fraternally with the knights of Columbus and the 
Modern Woodmen while his religious faith is that of the Catholic 
church, of which his wife is also a devout communicant. Although the 
period of his residence in Dell Rapids has been comparatively brief, it 
has nevertheless been of sufficient length to convincingly demonstrate 
to those who have come in contact with him that he is a man of high 
principles, trustworthy and loyal in every relation of life.