William F. Glasier, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 129-130 in "History of Dakota 
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				WILLIAM F. GLASIER, M. D.  

	Dr. William F. Glasier, engaged in the practice of medicine at 
Sisseton, was born in Livingston county, Illinois, January 4, 1882, a 
son of Peter and Anna (Fahr) Glasier, both of whom were natives of 
Alsace-Lorraine and were of German parentage. The father was born June 
26, 1827, and passed away July 12, 1911. The mother,s birth occurred 
November 8, 1847, and they were married in Germany, after which they 
emigrated to the United States in 1869, settling in New Jersey. The 
father was an iron worker and about 1875 removed to Illinois, where he 
turned his attention to the occupation of farming. Still later he 
became a resident of Iowa, where he purchased and improved a tract of 
land but retired some years prior to his death, having met with a fair 
measure of success in his business undertakings. In his political views 
he was a republican, always giving his support to the principles of 
that party after becoming a naturalized American citizen. His religious 
faith was that of the Lutheran church. In their family were six 
children: Lena, who became the wife of Joseph Rodgers and is now a 
widow living in St. James, Minnesota; Elizabeth, who is a resident of 
Iowa; Peter, a mining engineer living in Goldfield, Nevada; Jacob, an 
agriculturist residing in St. James, Minnesota; William F., of this 
review; and John, a contractor of Denver, Colorado.  

	William F. Glasier pursued a high-school education at Whittemore, 
Iowa, and was graduated with the class of 1901. He afterward spent a 
year and a half at Highland Park College in Des Moines, where he 
pursued a course in pharmacy, being graduated there on the 30th of 
January, 1905. He was afterward employed in a drug store for a while 
and still later he entered upon the study of medicine, to which he 
devoted two years in Keokuk, Iowa. He also attended the medical 
department of the University of Illinois at Chicago and was there 
graduated with the class of 1910. After spending a year as interne in 
St. Anne's Hospital in Chicago he located in Sisseton in 1911 and 
entered independently upon the practice of medicine. Subsequently, 
however, he admitted Dr. C. M. Peterson to a partnership and they 
opened a hospital containing fifteen beds. Dr. Glasier now has an 
extensive general practice and also does considerable surgical work, 
possessing marked skill and ability in that connection.  

	On the 16th of October, 1911. Dr. Glasier was united in marriage 
to Miss Thelma Hanson, a native of Pipestone. Minnesota, and a daughter 
of N. H. Hanson, who became an early settler of Minnesota and embarked 
in merchandising at Pipestone. Our subject and his wife have two sons 
namely: William Albert, who was born January 8, 1913; and Robert A., 
whose birth occurred July 31, 1914.  

	Dr. Glasier is a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church and is a 
prominent Mason, belonging to the consistory at Des Moines, Iowa. In 
politics he is a republican and has served as coroner of Roberts county 
and as a member of the board of health, serving at one time as vice 
president of that board. He is a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon 
fraternity, connected with the Illinois Alpha. He devotes all of his 
time to his profession. He is also the owner of a farm of two hundred 
and forty acres located in Roberts county. His professional services 
are discharged with a sense of conscientious obligation and his ability 
has gained him prominence in his chosen field and won for him a growing 
practice.