Walter M. Quinn, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on page 942 in "History of Dakota 
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				WALTER M. QUINN, M. D. 

	Dr. Walter M. Quinn, engaged in medical practice at Bonesteel, 
has been a lifelong resident of South Dakota, his birth having occurred 
in Springfield, November 4, 1879. He is a son of Michael F. and Ellen 
Elizabeth (Ragen) Quinn, formerly residents of Illinois. They came to 
South Dakota in 1875, settling here during territorial days when the 
work of pioneer development seemed scarcely begun. They established 
their home at Springfield and Mr. Quinn secured a claim, using his 
three rights. Not a furrow had been turned nor an improvement made upon 
the land when it came into his possession, but with characteristic 
energy he began to break the sod and till the fields and continued the 
work of development and cultivation with growing success for twenty-
three years. In 1898, however, he put aside the plow and retired from 
active connection with agricultural interests, spending his remaining 
days in the enjoyment of a well earned rest. He died in April, 1912, 
but his wife survives. 

	Having attended the public schools near his father's home, Dr. 
Walter M. Quinn continued his education in the State Normal School at 
Springfield, and when he had decided upon the practice of medicine as a 
life work he matriculated in the Creighton Medical College at Omaha, 
Nebraska, from which he was graduated with the class of 1905. He then 
located for practice at Zeeland, North Dakota, where he remained for 
seven years, after which he removed to Bonesteel, where he has since 
continued, enjoying a practice that has constantly increased until it 
has now assumed extensive and gratifying proportions. He is very 
careful in diagnosing his cases and remains a constant student of his 
profession, keeping in touch with modern theories and discoveries 
concerning disease, its origin, its prevention and its cure. 

	On the 19th of July, 1907, Dr. Quinn was united in marriage to 
Miss Deborah Biggins, a daughter of Matthew Biggins, of Bonesteel. They 
have a son, Walter Matthew. The religious faith of the family is that 
of the Catholic church. In politics Dr. Quinn is a democrat and in the 
fall of 1914 was elected county coroner He belongs to the Rosebud 
Medical Society and the South Dakota State Medical Society, and while 
he makes his profession his chief interest, he yet finds time to devote 
to the public welfare, cooperating heartily in plans and projects which 
tend to advance the interests of the community.