Edward F. Dann, M. D. Biography


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	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 545-546

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EDWARD F. DANN, M. D., is now engaged in the practice of medicine and 
surgery in Clark, South Dakota, and has that love for and devotion to 
his profession which has brought to him success and won him a place 
among the ablest representatives of the medical fraternity in this 
section of the state. He was born in Connecticut, February 10, 1846, 
and is the oldest in a family of six children, whose parents were 
Selleck and Ann (Pierce) Dann, both of whom are still living. But 
little is known of the ancestry of the Dann family, though it is 
probably of German and Austrian origin. On the mother's side the 
Pierces are an old colonial family and ancestors of our subject engaged 
in both the Revolution and the war of 1812. 

Dr. Dann spent the greater part of his childhood in Oneida county, New 
York, and from there the family removed to Whitewater, Wisconsin. The 
first act worthy of note in the life of our subject was at the age of 
sixteen years when he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-eighth Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry, and for four years he served his country as a 
valiant and faithful soldier, being engaged in the siege of Port 
Pemberton, Helena, Arkansas, Forts Fisher and Blakely, and the capture 
of Mobile. He was finally mustered out in Texas, in August, 1865, and 
returned north with an honorable war record. 

The Doctor soon afterward became a student at Milton College, but 
before completing the course at that institution, he entered the 
University of New York, where he look up the study of medicine. 
Subsequently he graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1870, 
and from Hahnemann Medical College the following year. Thus well 
equipped for his chosen profession, he opened an office in Berlin, 
Wisconsin, where he successfully engaged in practice until 1882, when 
he came to South Dakota, hoping to regain his health. He took up land 
in Richland township, Clark county, and located there in 1884, 
attending to a large country practice and successfully conducting his 
fine farm of seven hundred acres. Wishing to provide his children with 
better educational advantages than the district schools afforded, he 
removed to Clark in 1893 and here he has established a large and 
lucrative practice. 

In 1872 Dr. Dann married Miss Sarah Forsyth, who died in 1874, leaving 
one daughter, Helen, now a successful school teacher of Great Falls, 
Montana, and he was again married in 1877, his second union being with 
Miss Sally McClellan, by whom he has two children: Esther and Frank. 
Politically the Doctor is an Abraham Lincoln Republican; and socially 
is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the 
Maccabees and the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a very popular and 
prominent citizen of his adopted city; the place he has won in his 
profession is accorded him in recognition of his skill and ability, and 
the place which he occupies in the social world is a tribute to his 
genuine worth.