Franklin Henry Staley, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on pages 511-512 in "History of Dakota 
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				FRANKLIN HENRY STALEY, M. D. 

	Dr. Franklin Henry Staley is one of the able physicians and 
surgeons of Hamlin county, South Dakota, and since locating at Hazel 
has gained a lucrative practice. He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio, on the 
5th of January, 1860, a son of Josiah and Hannah P. (Stephens) Staley, 
natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively. The father, who was a 
cabinetmaker by trade, enlisted in the [Union army upon the outbreak of 
the Civil war and was subsequently captured and confined in 
Andersonville prison for seven months. After his release he was so 
emaciated and weakened that he died of exhaustion before reaching the 
northern lines. His widow removed to Mount Vernon, Iowa, with her 
family and resided there until 1880. 

	Dr. Staley had good educational opportunities, attending the 
preparatory and normal departments of Cornell College at Mount Vernon. 
He subsequently taught for a few years. In 1880 he accompanied his 
brother, J. M., and his mother and her second husband, W. J. Clugston, 
on their removal to Watertown, South Dakota, and taught the first two 
terms of school ever held in Rauville township, Codington county. He 
took up a. homestead seven miles northeast of Watertown which he proved 
up and sold as a means of gaining sufficient money to pay his way 
through medical college. In 1883 he beggan the study of medicine and 
the next fall entered Rush Medical College of Chicago, from which 
institution he was graduated with the class of 1886. He immediately 
afterward located for practice near Mount Vernon, Iowa, but 
subsequently came to Castlewood, this state, where he opened an office 
for practice and remained there seven and one-half years. He next went 
to Sheffield, Illinois, where he spent three and one-half years, and 
then removed to Clear Lake, South Dakota, where he continued to reside 
for fourteen years. At the end of that time he went to Colorado, where 
he remained for three years. In the spring of 1914 he returned to South 
Dakota and located in Hazel, where he is at present engaged in the 
active practice of his profession. Although he has only been a resident 
of Hazel for something over a year he has already demonstrated his 
capability and has gained the respect of both the general public and 
his professional colleagues. His practice is steadily increasing and he 
is regarded as one of the successful physicians of Hamlin county. 

	Dr. Staley was married in 1890 to Miss Violet Marshall, of 
Castlewood, a daughter of William Marshall, one of the pioneers of 
Hamlin county. To them were born three children: Winifred M., the wife 
of Phillip Waterman, of Grand Valley, Colorado; Melroy M., residing in 
Watertown, this state; and William F., at home. Mrs. Staley died in 
1902, and two years later the Doctor married Miss Lena E. Tetzlaff, of 
this county. They have become the parents of four children, Marion F., 
Margaret E. and Maxwell F., twins, and Eugene Field. The wife and 
mother is a member of the Presbyterian church and takes an active part 
in the work of that denomination. 

	The Doctor is a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 129, A. F. & A. M., 
of Clear Lake; of the Palisades Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Palisades, 
Colorado; and Hazel Camp, M. W. A. His political allegiance is given to 
the republican party. He is a member of the Watertown District Medical 
Society and served at one time as its president, and he also belongs to 
the South Dakota Medical Society and the American Medical Association. 
The life of Dr. Staley has been a busy and useful one and he has gained 
not only a competence but also that success which finds expression in 
the regard of one's fellow men and the consciousness of a worthy work 
well done.