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Sacred Heart Physicians
The History of Renville County, Volume 2
Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
Chapter XXX
p. 740-741

O. K. Bergan received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board Oct. 9, 1891, and offered it for record Nov. 4, 1891.

F. L. Hammerstrand was born on a farm in the vicinity of East Lunn, Ill., Oct. 11, 1881. He received his early education in the grammar school in the country and then worked on his father's farm until fourteen years of age. Next he attended the Augustana College, at Rock Island, Ill., taking up a business course and for the next three years was bookkeeper with the Northern Milling Company of Chicago, Ill. In 1903 he again entered the collegiate department of Augustana College with the intention of preparing for the medical course. In 1905 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons., Medical Department of the University of Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1909. He then served as interne for two years at the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Ill. In the fall of 1911 he located at Sacred Heart, where he has since practiced medicine.

E. O. Lyders was an early physician of Sacred Heart, practicing there in the early eighties.

John B. Setnan received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board, June 9, 1896, and offered it for record Dec. 23, 1897.

Otis O. Benson received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board April 11, 1902, and offered it for record August 4, 1906. Dr. Benson is now in Tower, Minn., engaged in the government service. He practiced at Hector before going to Sacred Heart.

Olaf R. Krogstadt received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board, April 8, 1892, and offered it for record March 15, 1901.

Carl Henry Laws received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board July 5, 1911, and offered it for record August 14, 1911.

F. F. Laws graduated from the Chicago Medical College, Illinois, in 1874, received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board July 16, 1886, and presented his certificate for record Aug. 14, 1911.

Jerome H. Titus received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board, Jan. 24, 1901, and offered it for record, Nov. 25, 1901.

William H. Welch graduated from the Medical Department, University of Vermont in 1880, received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board Dec. 31, 1883, and presented his certificate for record Jan. 2, 1889.

Erick Linger practiced in Sacred Heart for a while.

Fred Foss is another physician who has practiced in Sacred Heart.


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