Franklin Oulton, M. D. Biography


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FRANKLIN OULTON, M. D., is a skillful and successful physician and 
surgeon now engaged in practice in Spink county, South Dakota, his home 
being on section 3, Jefferson township. He has that true love for his 
work without which there can be no success, and has always been a 
progressive member of the profession, constantly improving on his own 
and others' methods and gaining further encouragement and inspiration 
from the performance of each day's duties. 

The Doctor was born August 28, 1850, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, 
of which place his father was a merchant, dealing in groceries, flour 
and meal there until his death in 1898. Dr. Oulton completed his 
literary education at Mt. Allison University and after leaving that 
institution went to sea as a common sailor. During the seven years he 
was on the water, he circled the globe three times and stopped at Hong 
Kong, Manila and other places in the far east. He also had three 
shipwreck experiences. On leaving the service at the age of nineteen 
years he was the first mate of a full rigged ship, a rank he had 
attained by his own unaided effort. 

Dr. Oulton quit the sea in 1870 and on the 10th of December, of that 
year, was united in marriage with Miss Christiana Trites, of Moncton, 
New Brunswick. He at once commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. 
D. Ross, of his native town, with whom he remained for three years and 
then attended lectures at the medical department of the University of 
the City of New York, where he was graduated with honors in 1876 in a 
class of one hundred and sixty-five. He first engaged in practice at 
Savona, Steuben county, New York, but in 1878 returned to his old home, 
where he followed his chosen profession for six years. In the spring of 
1885 he entered the New York Polyclinic, where he studied for three 
months and then located at East Pembroke, Genesee county, New York, 
where he was engaged in practice for a year. It was in March, 1886, 
that he went to Ashton, Spink county, South Dakota, and bought three 
quarter-sections of land three miles from the village, on which he has 
since made his home. He now has eight hundred acres, five hundred and 
fifty acres of which are planted to wheat, and has a fine set of 
buildings, which make it one of the best improved farms of the 
locality. In connection with his farming operations he still gives 
considerable attention to the duties of his profession and has a large 
country practice, covering a territory whose radius is about thirty 
miles. He also has telephone connection with the neighboring towns. He 
is one of the ablest representatives of the medical fraternity in his 
locality and is now the examiner on the pension board. Politically he 
is a stanch Democrat and is in favor of high license and woman's 
suffrage. 

Dr. Oulton and his wife are the parents of two children: Edna Blanch, 
the wife of Frank Steeves, a farmer of New Brunswick, Canada; and a 
son, Frank, aged twenty, a registered pharmacist, and clerking in 
Jones' drug store at Watertown, South Dakota. He graduated at Brookings 
University in June, 1899.