Adelbert E. Pettingill, M. D. Biography


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ADELBERT E. PETTINGILL, M. D. The medical profession has many 
representatives in a state as large as South Dakota, and it is hard to 
determine who is entitled to the foremost rank, but it is safe to 
include this gentleman in the list of those who occupy a prominent 
position, and who are skillful practitioners and worthy citizens. He is 
well known throughout Brown county, and makes his home in Frederick 
where he has resided many years and has built up an extensive and 
remunerative practice. He has been connected with the business 
interests of the village during the greater part of his time since 
locating there, but at present much of his time and attention is given 
to his stock ranch, of five hundred and sixty acres, five miles 
southwest of Frederick. 

Our subject was born in Kirtland, Lake county, Ohio, July 18, 1842, and 
was the son of Edmund and Mary A. (Salisbury) Pettingill, both of whom 
are deceased. His father was born in the Empire state and was a 
shoemaker by trade, and died when our subject was a child. Mr. 
Pettingill moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, with his parents when a 
young boy, and after a few years moved to the village of Columbus, 
remaining there one year, and then removing to Glenville, then known as 
Shellrock, Freeborn county, Minnesota. He enlisted in 1863, in Company 
C, Second Minnesota Cavalry, and served two years in the northwest 
against the Sioux Indians, during which time they had a number of 
skirmishes, and were met with stubborn resistance at a battle fought on 
the Little Missouri river in the Dakota territory. He left Freeborn 
county in 1866 and settled in Morrison county, Minnesota, and resided 
on a farm four years, returning at the end of that time to Freeborn 
county, residing there two years, and beginning the study of medicine. 
He later attended the Cincinnati Eclectic College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
graduating with the class of '77, immediately following which he went 
to Ortonville, Minnesota, and established an office and practiced there 
five years. He went to Frederick, South Dakota, in 1883, and engaged in 
the drug business with Dr. George Newton, and began the practice of his 
profession in the vicinity. It is but recently that he has given up the 
drug business, and now turns his attention to his practice and to stock 
raising. He is much interested in the raising of cattle, and gives that 
business his personal attention. His practice is the leading one in 
northern Brown county, and he has many calls from other parts of that 
and adjoining counties. He keeps pace with the times in his profession 
and profits by his own experiences and observation. 

Doctor Pettingill was married, in 1868, to Mary A. Radliff. Three 
children have been born to bless the home of Doctor and Mrs. 
Pettingill, as follows: Edmund G., a leading business man of Frederick; 
Frank, who died in Ortonville, Minnesota; and Mary V. 

Our subject is a member of the Masonic fraternity. In political 
sentiment he is a Republican, and a man of broad mind who keeps abreast 
of the times in public affairs and stands for his own convictions. He 
has held various offices of trust from time to time in his village and 
township, and has gained the confidence of the people whom he 
represents. He is a man of pleasing address and commanding presence; 
and prominent in public affairs, and possesses sterling business 
qualifications, all of which make him deservedly popular in his 
community.