Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Jarvis, Abbie A. 1853 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis


    DR. ABBIE A. JARVIS (nee Abbie Ann Hall) first saw the light .of day at

Shanzerville, Ohio, on September 16, 1853. She was born of mixed parentage, her

father being a North Carolinian and her mother Pennsylvania Dutch. She moved

from Ohio in 1855 with her parents to Sauk county, Wisconsin and was educated in

the common and high schools of her day.



    She was united in marriage to Matthew J. Jarvis on Christmas Day, 1876, at

Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Came to Dakota Territory with her husband in 1880, and put

in the winter of 1880 and 1881 at Redfield a year before there was another house

on the town site, living on wheat ground in a coffee mill and antelope meat.



    To this union have been born five children, M. J. Jarvis, Jr., S. Hall

Jarvis, Annette, lyucretia and Belle, the latter dying in infancy. In 1883 they

moved from. Redfield to a farm in Faulk countv with their family. In the winter

of 1888-1889 they moved to Faulkton, where her husband went into business. In

1890, with a family of four children, and after going through all the hardships

of a frontier life, she commenced to read medicine and in 1898 graduated fourth

in her class from the Women's Medical College of the Northwestern University of

Chicago. After taking a full four years course she returned at once to Faulkton,

where she has ever since had her full share of practice and she believes the

confidence and respect of the people of the county.



    Mrs. Jarvis has been a resident physician of several benefit associations,

and has been honored with the election of vice president of the State Board of

Pharmacy. She is a worthy member of the Eastern Star and of the Methodist

Episcopal church.





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