Frederick Ed Fyle, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 553-554 in "History of Dakota 
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				FREDERICK ED FYLE, M. D. 

	Dr. Frederick Ed Fyle is successfully engaged in the practice of 
medicine and surgery at Geddes and is at the head of the Charles Mix 
County Hospital, which he founded. He was born in Ontario, Canada, 
August 12, 1872, a son of Levi and Sarah (Long) Fyle, who were of 
United Empire Loyalist stock. The father, who has followed the 
occupation of farming throughout his life, is still living at the age 
of eighty-nine years. The mother was a descendant of Dr. John Long, a 
noted physician of London, England. 

	Dr. Fyle pursued his literary education in the Woodstock College 
of Ontario, from which he was graduated in 1900, and took his 
professional work in the University of Toronto, completing the course 
there in 1904. He was then for two years an interne in the Toronto 
General Hospital but at the end of that time began his independent 
practice, locating in Langton, Ontario. After living there for a year 
he went to California, where he remained until January, 1907, when he 
removed to Geddes, South Dakota. He established the Charles Mix County 
Hospital in 1908 and is still at the head of that institution. It is 
modernly equipped and has fourteen beds. while seven nurses and one man 
are employed. He has gained noteworthy success as a surgeon and has 
performed the greater part of the major operations in his section of 
the county. in 1914 he performed over three hundred and thirty 
operations. He possesses the essential qualifications for a good 
surgeon-accurate knowledge of anatomy, skill in the technique of 
surgery and the ability to think quickly and to keep a cool head under 
all circumstances. He also recognizes the fact that constant study is 
necessary and in 1906 took a post-graduate course in the University of 
Toronto, Ontario, and in 1910 took postgraduate work in the Chicago 
Polyclinic. He has not only gained all enviable reputation 
professionally but he has also won financial independence and owns 
three valuable farms. 

	Dr. Fyle is a republican in politics but has never sought 
official preferment, as his professional work demands his undivided 
attention. His religious faith is that of the Methodist church and 
fraternally he is identified with the Masonic blue lodge, the Eastern 
Star chapter, the Odd Fellows and the Rebekahs. In all relations of 
life he measures up to high standards of manhood and is held in warm 
regard by those who have come in contact with him.