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Subject: Sd-Faulk Co. Bios (Jarvis)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:11:35 -0500


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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HISTORY OF
FAULK COUNTY
SOUTH DAKOTA
CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS

TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS

ILLUSTRATED
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