Granville H. Twining, M. D. Biography


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				GRANVILLE H. TWINING, M. D. 

	Dr. Granville H. Twining, a physician and surgeon of Mobridge, 
was born in Adams county, Iowa, on the 25th of July, 1876, a son of 
Lauriston and Laura (Bodkin) Twining, the former a native of Iowa City, 
Iowa, and the latter of Piqua, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, the Rev. 
E. W. Twining, was a Methodist minister and was one of the well known 
pioneer divines of Iowa. Lauriston Twining after pursuing a course in 
the Iowa State University studied law under J. F. McJunkin, was 
admitted to the bar and practiced for many years in Corning and Des 
Moines, Iowa, making a specialty of real-estate law. His two brothers, 
J. L. and Edward Twining, were physicians. The father died in 1895 but 
the mother survives and makes her home in Des Moines. 

	Broad educational advantages were accorded Dr. Twining, who 
supplemented his public school course by study in the Northwestern 
University at Evanston, Illinois. where he was graduated with the 
degree of Bachelor of Science in the class of 1905, while the degree of 
Master of Science was conferred upon him by the same institution in 
1906. In the fall of the latter year he entered the medical department 
of the Iowa State University, where he pursued a two years' course and 
then matriculated in Rush Medical College of Chicago, which he also 
attended for two years, being graduated with the class of 1910. He 
afterward received the appointment to the position of interne in the 
Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago under Dr. A. D. Bevan. This gave him 
broad and valuable experience such as can be gained in no other way as 
well as in hospital work. He next entered the service of the Milwaukee 
Railroad Company in its hospital at St. Joe, Idaho, but accepted this 
only as a temporary position preparatory to locating in Mobridge, to 
which place he removed in June, 1911. He has since had charge of the 
Mobridge Hospital, which institution is conducted by the employee of 
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company. Dr. Twining acts as 
district sure aeon for the road and in addition to his hospital work 
has built up an extensive private practice and has won an enviable and 
well deserved reputation as an able and successful practitioner and a 
skilled surgeon. During the Spanish-American war he served in the 
Philippines in the capacity of hospital steward. He enlisted in Des 
Moines as a member of Company H and subsequently was transferred to the 
medical department. His enlistment immediately followed his high-school 
graduation and his experience in the Philippines no doubt shaped his 
entire career. His professional connections are with the Aberdeen 
District Medical Society, the South Dakota State Medical Society and 
the American Medical Association and thus he keeps in touch with the 
advancement and with the improved methods of the medical fraternity. 

	On the 24th of June, 1911, Dr. Twining was united in marriage to 
Miss Wilhelmina M. Sommer, of Chicago, Illinois. In his political views 
Dr. Twining is a republican and his religious faith is that of the 
United church. while his wife is a member of the Lutheran church. His 
fraternal connections are with Mobridge Lodge, No. 164, A. F. & A. M.; 
Selby Chapter, No. 43, R. A. M.; Damascus Commandery, No. 10, K. T. of 
Aberdeen; and Yelduz Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Aberdeen. He is 
likewise a member of Aberdeen Lodge, No. 1046, B. P. O. E. and Mobridge 
Lodge, No. 205, I. O. O. F. His professional work has ever been of 
increasing importance and responsibility and his broad study and 
experience have enabled him to meet his duties in a most efficient 
manner. His work is always conscientiously performed and his ability 
produces results highly gratifying to his patrons.