When David F Sullivan was born on 10 May 1843 in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, USA, his father, Dennis, was 28 and his mother, Catherine, was 21. He married Harriet M Shannon and they had two children together. He then married Marie-Emélina "Malvina" Lachance on 8 February 1899 in Frankfort, South Dakota, USA. He died on 3 January 1917 at the age of 73, and was buried in Frankfort, South Dakota, USA. Find A Grave: Memorial #91754677
1853 • Sinsinawa Mound, Wisconsin At age 9, he was orphaned. Graduated from St Joseph College at Sinsinawa Mound in 1867. (Sinsinawa Mound College Wisconsin ran from 1846 1864 Catholic. There was a St Joseph College at Edgerton WI that closed.)
1869 Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania 1869/Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia Dr. Sullivan began the practice of medicine in Philadelphia and thence removed to Reedsburg, Wisconsin, where he followed his profession for some time. He next removed to Union Center, Wisconsin, where in partnership with Dr. Gilluly he purchased a drug store and office. There he continued in practice until he went to Chicago.
Oct 1871 • Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA practiced medicine and suffered losses in Great Fire
1872 • Fort Ellis, Montana Medical Director for Thirteenth US Infantry
11 Aug 1877 • Bristol, Day County, South Dakota, USA Certificate #583 issued to D.F. Sullivan; examined by Board at Huron, Dakota Territory, Aug 6 1877
Marriage 30 October 1879 • St. Theresa's Church, Tomah, Monroe, WI, USA Harriet M Shannon (1857–1897) Biography of David F. Sullivan In 1879, at Union Center, Wisconsin, Dr. Sullivan was united in marriage to Miss Hattie Shannon, a daughter of William and Minnie (Boom) Shannon. She passed away in 1897, leaving a son and daughter. Dennis William, a graduate of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion and the Ensworth Medical College of St. Joseph, Missouri, is now manager of the Fort William baseball team in the Northern League. He is well known as a professional ball player, having been in the American League for eleven years before retiring to the management of teams in the minor leagues. His winter seasons have been devoted to the acquirement of his education and to practice. In 1914 he was head physician at Ensworth Deaconess Hospital at St. Joseph, Missouri. He married Nellie M. Hanson, of Chokio, Minnesota, and they have become the parents of one daughter, Catherine Beatty. Nellie, a graduate of the State Normal School at Madison, South Dakota, is the wife of George Newsome, of Wardner, Idaho. They have two daughters, Georgina and Nuna.
Education 1879 • Royal College of Dublin Ireland. awarded degree of Doctor of Medicine, according to the Huron Newspaper
1881 • Sisseton, Marshall, South Dakota, USA As medical director, transferred to Fort Sisseton and resigned in 1882 and moved to Andover, Day, SD, where he He took up three quarter sections by homestead, preemption and soldier's declaratory.
Occupation . He continued to practice medicine and in 1897 he removed to Frankfort to take up actively his profession, which he followed until 1915, when he retired to private life. In the intervening years he made substantial progress in this field, his ability gaining him wide recognition as an able and learned physician. He has also dealt quite largely in real estate and is the owner of considerable farm land and city properties. He has improved both town and country property and has thus added much to the material development of the community in which he lives. Licensure as physician: SD, 1887, MN, 1883, ND, 1887.
Education: Certificate #2257 issued Jan 10 1913 by exam. Graduate of Ensworth, St Joseph MO in June 1911. (Robin Rainford found this note in LaChance house; medical school later closed.). 10 JAN 1913. St Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, USA. [1] conferred degree: LLB, according to his obit.
Marriage 8th of February, 1899, Dr. Sullivan was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Melvina Lemeaux, who came to the United States with her parents. She was educated at the Kankakee (Ill.) convent and after marrying Peter Lemeaux settled in Day county in 1885. Her husband died in Frankfort in 1898.
Husband David F Sullivan. Wife Marie-Emélina Lachance. Lemeaux Marriage 8 FEB 1899. Frankfort, Spink, South Dakota, USA. [2]
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