Frederick E. Walker, M. D. Biography


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				FREDERICK E. WALKER, M. D. 

	Dr. Frederick E. Walker, of Hot Springs, is a prominent member of 
his profession in the Black Hills district and in November, 1914, was 
elected a member of the state senate, his fellow citizens believing 
that his energy and knowledge of the trend of public events would be of 
value in the state legislature He is a native of Grinnell, Iowa, born 
January 5, 1872, of the marriage of Carter C. and Mary M. (Davis) 
Walker, born respectively in Zone, Canada, February 22, 1828, and in 
Geneseo, New York, March 31, 1834. Carter C. Walker, who was a farmer 
and brick manufacturer, came to the States at the age of nineteen and 
in 1863 removed to Iowa, taking up his residence in Grinnell. He is 
living retired there, enjoying the fruits of his labor in former,years, 
and his wife is also living. In 1909 they celebrated their golden 
wedding anniversary and received the congratulations of their many 
friends. 

	Dr. Walker is the youngest in a family of five children and 
attended the Grinnell (Ia.) schools. He prepared for his professional 
career in the medical department of the State University of Iowa at 
Iowa City, being graduated with the degree of M. D. with the class of 
1898. He has since taken a number of post-graduate courses in different 
cities and remains a careful student of his profession. Before 
beginning practice, however, he had to a large extent provided for his 
own support for many years, as when but nine years of age he left home 
and entered the employ of a farmer. He did farm work, at the same time 
attending school, until sixteen years of age and was then employed as a 
clerk in a general store at Brooklyn, Iowa. He was connected with 
merchandising for two years and then taught school and at the same time 
read medicine. When about twenty-two years of age he entered medical 
school. After his graduation therefrom he located for practice at 
Bigelow, Minnesota, but after a year removed to Worthington, that 
state, where he was engaged in the general practice of medicine and 
surgery until 1901. In that year he began to specialize in surgery and 
established the first hospital in southern Minnesota. He conducted that 
institution for four years and w-as then appointed chief surgeon of the 
Sisters Hospital of Hot Springs, South Dakota, and removed to that 
city. For ten years he has filled that important position and the 
hospital's splendid record of successful operations during that time is 
largely due to his professional skill, his executive ability and his 
conscientious devotion to duty. In the November election of 1914 he was 
elected to the state senate on the republican ticket from the forty-
second district, embracing Custer and Fall River counties. Although 
that was the first time that he has been a candidate for office he has, 
since reaching mature years, followed carefully the events that affect 
the public welfare and has studied social and economic conditions. 

	Dr. Walker has been married twice. His first wife was Miss Daisy 
31. Barclay, a native of Brooklyn, Iowa, and their marriage was 
solemnized July 5, 1898, at Des Moines. She passed away November 25, 
1902, at Minneapolis. On the 30th of August, 1906, Dr. Walker was again 
married, Miss Minnie L. Eckland becoming his wife. She was born in 
Sweden but has passed almost her entire life in this country, as she 
was but four years of age when she accompanied her parents to the 
United States. Two children have been born to the Doctor,s second 
marriage: Mary Ellen, who died when three years of age; and Frederick 
Thomas, whose birth occurred in 1911. 

	Dr. Walker is affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of 
Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He has found his connection with 
professional societies of great value to him in his work as a surgeon 
and is a loyal member of the Black Hills District Medical Society, the 
Sioux Valley Medical Society, the Missouri Valley Medical Society, the 
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His life 
has been one of activity and of usefulness and he has the supreme 
satisfaction of knowing that he has accomplished much that is worth 
while and that his developing powers give promise of still greater 
achievement in the years to come.