jnirposc in mind, staying in the hospitals there
until March, i8S(i, H.' then returned In .Xmeric^i
and commenced his general practice in Minneap-
olis. In 1907 Dr. Nippert again visited Europe
and spent much time in the hospitals and clinics
at the great centers of medical research. Dr.
Nippert is a member of various medical and pro
fessional associations, among which are the Hen-
nepin County Medical Society (of which he has
been president), the Minnesota State Medical
Society and the Minnesota Academy of Medicine
and is clinical professor of medicine in the Uni-
versity of Minnesota. He was married in 1S87 to
Miss Mary Rauen and they have two children,
l,illi;in, and Rauen Louis Nippert.
NOOTNAGFL, Charles F., a well known
physician and surgeon of Minneapolis, was born
in Wisconsin in 1863. His father before him
was also a physician and surgeon, and the son
took a thorough preparation for the medical pro-
fession by two years at .Ann Arbor, completed at
Hellevue Hospital Medical College. Dr. Noot-
nagel also spent a year in European study. He
has a well established and valuable practice in
Minneapolis and is regarded as one of the solid
inin of the profession.
O'BRIEN. Richard P., was born February 27,
1863, at Marengo, Illinois. His father, William
O'Brien, was a grocer of that place, married to
Mary McManus. His early life was spent at
Marengo where he attended the public schools
and graduated at the- high school. Later he
studied medicine at the Chicago Medical Col-
lege and engaged in general practice. He was
the only member of his class to receive a hos-
pital appointment from the Dean after gradua-
tion. In 1S87 and 1888 he was professor of physi-
ology at Hamline University and served as coun-
ty physician in Minneapolis in 1893 and 1894. He
is a member of the Knights of Columbus, of the
Maccabees, of the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
of the Modern Woodmen of .America, of the
Bankers' Union and of the Catholic Order of
F'oresters. Dr. O'Brien is a member of the
Catholic Church. He was married on November
26, 1890, to Miss Mary Ring, daughter of Martin
Ring, a prominent contractor of Minneapolis.
To them have been Imrn four children, William
Claude, Richard Mailiii, (ierald and Marian.
<) h'S r.'\ 1 ). .\rnl I'.,, prai'licing physician, was
horn in \orw.iy. .Inl\ i-|. 1811(1. Mi - father was
linlli a farmer ami nurilianl. .ind llie s'HI li.id
excelli'iil I'li.nuis In secure the besi th.it \'orw.-iy
can give lur suns in the way ol hi^lu-r educi-
tion. He received the fidl course of common,
high and Latin schools and took his .'\. B. at the
University of Christiani.a. Coming to the United
States, Dr. Ofstad took the medical course at
Chicago .Medical College, graduating in 1894. and
later returning for three months of post-graduate
work. Ten years later, in 1904, he graduated
from Hamline University of Minnesota, and then
spcnl one year as interne- in the Minneapolis City
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Hospital. He came to his profession doubly
equipped with thorough preparation for work
among new conditions. Dr. Ofstad belongs to
the Odd Fellows, M. W. A., the Sons of Norway
and the Independent Order of Foresters. Before
leaving Norway he served his time in the artil-
lery service under the compulsory military regu-
lations of Norway. Dr. Ofstad is a republican
and of the Protestant faith. He married .-\nnc-
Murie Sorum in 1895. He has no children.
PETERS, Ralph Moore, was born May 24, 187J
at Anoka, Minnesota, son of A. L. Peters, treas-
urer of the Peters Arms & Sporting Goods Com-
pany. Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents have re-
sided in Minnesota since 1867. Ralph graduated
at the St. Paul high school in 1891, president of
his class. He graduated at Rush Medical Col-
lege, Chicago, in 1894, and served as interne at
St. Mary's Hospital. Minneapolis, in 1894-95.
and was associated with Dr. J. H. Dunn,
when he began the practice of medicine in 1895
in Minneapolis. Dr. Peters is an active and
respected member of his profession in Minne-
apolis, not only among his confreres but among
his clientele as well. Dr. Peters is a republican
in politics and a member of the Commercial,
the Roosevelt and the Automobile clubs. He is
a member of Gethsemane Episcopal Church. In
1895 Ur. Peters was married to Margaret Emily
Wiggins, formerly of Saratoga Springs, New
Vi.rk.
PORTEOUS. William N.. was born in On-
tario, Canada, on June 20, 1857. His father was
David Porteous, who had studied medicine at
Edinburgh University in Scotland, but who had
subsequently given up practice and engaged in
flour milling in Canada. Dr. Porteous' mother,
whose maiden name was Jessie Bell, was the
daughter of a Canadian manufacturer and of a
family engaged extensively in large business un-
dertakings in that part of the country. Dr. Por-
teous received his common school and college
education in Ontario, graduated from McGill
University at Montreal and studied medicine in
Scotland at Edinburgh University. After re-
ceiving his degree at Edinburgh he took a course
in London, England, and then returned to this
country to commence practice. In 1893 he came
to Minnesota and established himself in Minne-
apolis, where he has since continued to practice,
making a specialty of the diseases of the ear.
nose and throat. He is a member of the vari-
ous medical societies, of the Minneapolis Club
and other social organizations. In 1894 Dr. Por-
teous was married to Miss Alma Norton John-
son, daughter of the late Col. Charles W. John-
son, an old citizen of Minneapolis. Mrs. Por-
teous is widely known as a concert singer of
charming voice and personality.
PRATT, I-'red John, Jr., was born May 29,
1876, at Jackson, Michigan. He grew up at Jack-
son, attending the grade schools and graduating
from the Jackson high school. He then attended
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and
graduated from the medical department in 1901.
I'"or the ne.xt two and a half years he was assist-
ant to Dr. C. W. More, at the More Hospital,
Eveleth, Minnesota. He then took post-graduate
work during 1904 at Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat College fitting himself especially for
practice in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and
throat, and for one year following was assistant
to Dr. J. A. Pratt, a specialist of the eye, ear, nose
and throat at Aurora, Illonois. Dr. Pratt came
to Minneapolis in 1905 and established himself
as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist on the
East Side where he has since practiced. He is
a member of Phi Beta Pi fraternity. Masonic
and K. P. Lodges, Hennepin County Medical So-
ciety. Minneapolis Medical Club, St. Anthony
Medical Club and the American Medical Associa-
tion.
REES, Sorer P., physician and instructor in
Physical Diagnosis and Clinical Medicine at the
state university, was born in Denmark, Septero
ber 27, 1870. He is the son of Peter Nelson Rees,
a Danish farmer, and his earliest schooling was
had in the common schools of Denmark. Com-
ing to America with his parents while a child,
the family at once removed to Minnesota. Here
Dr. Rees completed his common and high school
course, graduating from the Stillwater high
school, and taking his college and medical train-
ing at the University of Minnesota. In 1895 he
received his degree of B. S. from the college, and
was also honored by election to membership in
Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Rees was editor-in-chief of
the 1895 Gopher and during his medical course
acted as instructor in Histology and Embryology.
Immediately after receiving his diploma of M. D.
he became resident physician for a year at St.
Barnabas Hospital. The next three years follow-
ing were spent in general practice at Anoka,
Minnesota. In 1901 Dr. Rees returned to
Minneapolis to become associated with Dr.
J. W. Bell, in which connection he has
made himself recognized during the past
seven years as one of the actively pro-
gressive men of his profession. He belongs
to the county, state and national medical societies
and to the Minnesota Academy of Medicine. In
politics he is a republican, taking an earnest and
active interest in all civic reforms. But he is
specially interested in the work and advancement
of the state university, for like all men who have
had to work hard to obtain an education he values
highly the opportunities of his own .Alma Mater.
He has shown this appreciation by being the
chief agent in putting the present general alumni
association on an efficient basis by securing funds
to support a paid secretary for the association.
Dr. Rees is one of the board of directors of the
association, representing the medical department;
and his energy and enthusiasm are always ac-
tively enlisted in plans for the future development
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..f the lu-u b(j<ly. Ho attends Trinity Baptist
Church. Ifc was marricil on August 3. 1898, to
Miss Estclle Crocker, aiul has one son. Soren
Douslas.
R1^LIC^â– , Martlia George, a practicing pliysi-
ciaii of this city and founder of the Maternity
Hospital, was born at Lowell, Vermont, on No-
vember 30, 1843. She is of English and Scotch
descent; the ancestors of the family on both sides
came to America with the Pilgrims and settled
in New England. During the Revolutionary War
the great-grandfather of Dr. Ripley fought under
ihe flag of Washington and died while serving
his country in that bitter winter at Valley Forge.
Dr. Ripley is the daughter of Francis and Esther
Ann (George) Rogers. Her father was a stock
farmer of Vermont who became a pioneer settler
in northeastern Iowa, where he brought his fam-
ily and established a typical New England home.
Dr. Ripley was raised amid these surmundings
and commenced her education in the public
schools and attended and graduated from the
Lansing, Iowa, high school, and then held a posi-
tion as instructor in the public schools for seven
terms. While yet a young woman, Dr. Ripley
became actively interested in charitable and phil-
anthropic objects giving her time and energies
iluring the Civil War to the work of the Sanitary
Commission. She was married in 1867 and went
to her husband's home in Massachusetts. The
desire to aid humanity urged her, however, to
become a physici.m and she entered Boston Uni-
versity taking her medical studies in the School
of Medicine of the same institution. Following
her graduation in 1883 she moved to Minneapolis
and devoted herself to a practice which has
proved increasingly successful, and to thi- ac-
complishment of many and varied works of cliar-
ity and philanthropy. Perhaps the most worthy
of her benevolent efforts have been expended in
the foundation and support of the Maternity Hos-
pital, which she organized and founded about
twenty years ago and of which she has been con-
tinuously the physician in charge. This is but one
of the many ways, however, in which Dr. Ripley
has, l)y her sympathy, counsel and material aid,
found it possible to perform, in a great measure
unknown even to her friends, countless acts of
warm hearted charity. In .nblition to tluse du
ties >,he held for a time the olticc of profe>-M>r of
children's diseases in the Homeopathic .Medical
School and is often called upon to read technical
essays before various medical bodies. Dr. Rip-
ley is a firm believer in the ecpial right to the
ballot and is a prominent member of city and
state woman suffrage societies, being for six years
the president of Ihe latter association. She is a
member of several professional organizations,
.among which are the .\nierican Institute of
I lomeoi)athy. the Woman's Medical Club of Min-
neap(jli^ ,iiid the city and state homeop,ithic sr)-
cieties, .She is a member of and attends the
I'lyni'>uth Congregational Church. Dr, Ripley
was married on June 2$, 1867. to William W.
Ripley and they have four children, Mrs. .Abigail
Ripley Smith, Mrs. Clara Rii)lcy Smith, Mrs.
F.dna Rii>ley Page, and .Miss Hester Ripley.
There .ire eight grandchildren.
ROBERTS, Thomas Sadler, clinical profes-
sor of Children's Diseases in the medical depart-
ment of the university and director of the De-
jKirtment of Birds in the Minnesota Natural His-
tory Survey, was born February 16, 1858, at Phil-
adelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of
John Roberts and Elizabeth Sadler. his
father bein.g of Welsh descent and of Quaker
f.aith, while his mother was of ]-"nglish
<Iescent and an Episcopalian. The Roberts
family in America traces its history back
to a Welsh ancestor, Thomas Roberts, who came
over in the time of William Penn, settled near
Philadelphia and became the forebear of a long
line of Pennsylvania farmers. The "Old Rob-
erts Home" and "Roberts School" are still stand-
ing. In 1867, John Roberts and his faiuily re-
moved to Minneapolis. Dr. Roberts was then
only nine, and his previous schooling had been
chiefly at the Friends' School in German-
town, Pennsylvania. He entered the Minne-
apolis public schools and gradu.atcd from
the higli school in the clas^ of 1S77 as
valedictori.an. The two years follow'ing were
spent at the University of Minnesota. Then
ill health compelled him to drop out of the
course and to take up temporarily some outdoor
occupation. During the summer of 1879, he was
with a State Natural History Survey party on
the north shore of Lake Superior studying the
birds and plants of that region and making a col-
lection of ornithological and botanical specimens
for tlie university. During the four f(.dlowing
sumn.ers he was in charge of parties engaged
in examinin.g the land grant of Northern Pacific
Railrod in Minnesota, Dakota and Montana.
When lie rcMimed college work it was at the
medical department of the University of Penn-
sylvania from which he graduated in 1885, rank-
ing liftli ill ,1 class of one luindrerl and thirty-two.
;\fter lifteeii months of practice a> interne at the
Philadelphia Children's Hospital and Philadelphia
City Hospital, Dr. Roberts came back to Minne-
a]iolis in the fall of 1886. since which dale he has
bei-n ill geiier.il pr.iclice. He wa-. on the staff of
.St. I'.arii.abas Mosiiit.al for twehe years and chief
of st.afl" for six ye.ars. He i~. at present on the
staff of the Xorthwestern. City and Swedish hos-
pitals and the Home for .^ged Women and Chil-
dren, the latter fi>r twenty years past. Besides
these positions he is a member of the anti-tuber-
culosis committee of the Associated Charities
and belongs to the .American Medical Associa-
tion, the state and county medical societies and
the Minnesota .•\cademy of Medicine. In his or-
nithological work he has placed in the state uni-
versity a collection of about 5,000 specimens for
the state natural history survey and has pub-
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lished numerous articles relating to Minnesota's
birds. The latest work will be issued, when fin-
ished, as a report of the State Natural History
Survey. He has been both secretary and presi-
dent of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sci-
ences and is now a trustee of that body. He has
been a fellow of the American Ornithological
Union since its formation and for some years
past one of the council. He is also a correspond-
ing member of various scientific societies, and be-
longs to the Minneapolis and Minikahda and Long
Meadow Gun clubs. Though in early life he
was a Friend, Dr. Roberts for a time attended the
Episcopal church, and is now a Universalist. Po-
litically he is a republican. He was married Oc-
tober i8, 1887. to Jane Cleveland, and has three
children — two sons and a daughter.
ROME, Robert R., was born March 4. 1865.
His childhood was passed on a farm, with his
parents, at Union Grove, Wisconsin. Here he
went to the district school. At sixteen years of
age, he went to Chicago to attend school. He
matriculated at Rush Medical College in 1883.
After one year there he was given a scholarship
in the old Chicago University where he took four
years of academic work. Then he went to Deni-
son University at Granville, Ohio, for a year's
work to prepare for the ministry. In 1888 he
supplied the pulpit in the Baptist church at Albert
Lea, Minnesota. The year following he matric-
ulated in Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago
.â– \fter graduation there in 1891 he came to Min-
neapolis and entered the department of Homeo-
pathic Medicine and Surgery of the University of
Minnesota, class of 1892. He was at once ap-
pointed lecturer and adjutant professor in ob-
stetrics in that college. In 1895 he was made full
professor of obstetrics. In 1901 he was appointed
to the chair of gynecology of which he is now
senior professor. Dr. Rome joined the Baptist
church in Chicago in 1887, and in 1906 his letter
was transferred to the Linden Hills Congrega-
tional Church of Minneapolis. He married
Jeannie May Nichols of Buffalo, New York, in
1894. They have two sons: Robert Carroll and
Richardson Rome.
SEASHORE, Gilbert, was born July 14. 1874,
at Dayton, Iowa. His father, Alfred Seashore,
was a farmer. Gilbert attended the public schools
of Iowa and entered Gustavus Adolphus College
at St. Peter, Minnesota, where he graduated in
1896 valedictorian of his class, taking the A. B.
degree. He then studied tvv'O years in the medi-
cal department of the University of Iowa and two
years more in the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota, graduating in 1902. Dr. Sea-
shore, after graduation at St. Peter, served ac-
ceptably as principal of the public schools in
North Branch in 1896-97, and in 1897-98 he held a
similar position at Marine Mills, Minnesota. In
1902 and 1903 he was house physician at the
.Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis and is at present
established in a growing practice. Dr. Seashore
is a republican in politics. He is a member of
the Hennepin County Medical Society and is a
Lutheran in his church affiliations.
SMITH, David Edmund, the son of Charles
Henry and Clarissa ^Moodyj Smith, was born
at Winona, Minnesota, December 20, 1867. His
youth was spent in Chicago where he attended
the public schools and the University Prepara-
tory School. Dr. Smith graduated from Amherst
College in 1891 and received the degree of A. M.
in 1895. His medical degree was given him in
1894 by the Rush Medical College of the Uni-
versity of Chicago. Additional training was re-
ceived in post graduate work at eastern medical
schools and in service at Asbury Hospital where
he was house surgeon and where he is still a
member of the stafif. Dr. Smith is a member of
the Minnesota State iMedical Society, the Hen-
nepin County Medical Society, the Minneapolis
Medical Club, the Commercial, Six O'clock and
Westminster Clubs. His party affiliations are
republican and he is a member of Westminster
Presbyterian Church. On September 23, 1896,
Dr. Smith was married to Miss Alice Dyer.
SMITH, Norman M., was born September 22,
1875, in Monticello, Iowa. His father, Rufus P.
Smith, prominent business man and manager of
the Electric Light & Power Co. of Monticello,
was the son of Norman M. Smith, who held dur-
ing the Civil War the position of surgeon in the
Sixth Regiment of Iowa Volunteers. After the
usual grade preparation. Dr. Smith entered the
.Monticello high school and graduated in 1893.
He then attended for two years Monmouth Col-
lege, at Monmouth, 111., when he left college and
entered the service of the C. M. & St. P. Ry. at
Monticello, as assistant agent. Coming to Min-
neapolis in 1898 he matriculated at the State
University in the medical department and for
three years applied himself to his professional
education. In 1901 he entered the Hahnemann
Medical College of Chicago and graduated from
that school in the following year with the degree
of M. D. At the same time that he was com-
pleting his course, Dr. Smith held the office of
instructor in physiologic chemistry in the same
college and was taking the additional course in
the Illinois College of Electro-Therapeutics, re-
ceiving from the latter school his M. E. degree
in 1902. Soon after completing his studies, Dr.
Smith commenced to practice his profession in
Allison. Iowa, where he remained until he came
to Minneapolis in 1903. In addition to his suc-
cessful practice in this city Dr. Smith holds a
position on the visiting staff of the City Hospital
and of the University Free Dispensary. In poli-
tics he is a stanch republican and believes firmly
in the principles and doctrines of his party. In
1898, the governor of Iowa, Leslie M. Shaw, ofii-
cially authorized Dr. Smith to organize and drill
a company for service in the Spanish .\merican
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u^r He was appointed captain of his cuinpany.
but the sudden termination of the war prevented
enlistment and active service. At the present
time lie is associated with the Sons of Veterans
and is a member and surgeon of the Red Cross
Corps. He also holds membership in the Ma-
sonic Lod^e, the civic educational clubs, the Min-
neapolis Homeopathic Medical Society and the
Minnesota State Homeopathic Institute, holding
in the last two organizations the ol'tice of secre-
tary. Dr. Smith attends Plymouth Congrega-
tional Church. He was married to Miss Crissie
May Benton, the daughter of C. H. Benton, in
iyo2.
SODERLIXI), Andrew, was burn in Sweden,
on January 31, 1861. He is the son of An-
drew and Caroline Soderlind. His father was
a surveyor of logs. From both his father's and
mother's lineage Dr. Soderlind is descended from
the highest families — his mother being of the
House of Aldrin and his father directly in line
with Stalhandskc, both ranking among the nob-
lest families of the kingdom. His father, how-
ever, was too democratic to retain his patrician
name, so adopted that by which his descendants
are now known. Dr. Soderlind spent his early
life in Sweden and there attended the public
schools. He was anxious to acquire a profession,
so after completing his preparatory studies he
took up the study of pharmacy and in the year
1887 was awarded his diploma as a registered
pharmacist. He continued his college work and
two years later graduated as a doctor of medicine
and surgery. Since that time he has, to complete
his professional education, taken post-graduate
courses in Baltimore and Berlin. He now has an
extensive medical and surgical practice in this
city and holds the position of chief ul the staff
physicians (jf the Swedish Hospital. Dr. Soder-
lind is connected with a number of the more im-
jiortant fraternal and professional organizations —
tile American .Medical Society; Minnesota State
Medical Society; the Hennepin County Medical
Society; the Masons; I. O. O. F. ; Gustaf Adolf
Society; the .Modern Samaritans, the Modern
Woodmen and the Odin and South Side Com-
mercial Clubs. He is a republican in politics. In
1X93 he was married to Miss Ann.-. Schult and llu y
have two sons and a daughter, Ellen, Ralph and
Ragnar. The family attends the Lutheran church.
S'rF.W.ART, J. Cl.irk. pliysician and surgeon,
and professor of Principles of Surgery in the
University of .Minnesota, was the first person to
enter the freshman class of Minnesota, 1871, and
also left his class at graduation, 1875, as first in
standing. .Minnesota, however, does not claim
Or. Stewart's birthplace. He is a New Jersey man,
born at Camden, October 21, 1854, the son of
the Rev. Daniel Stewart and of lUiza M., his
wife. The ancestry is Scotch on the father's
side. On the mother's there is a long list of the
original settlers of Rhode Island, among them
three governors and some dozen others of dis-
tinction in colonial times. Dr. Stewart was edu-
cated entirely in the private schools of Camden,
of Johnston, New York, and of New Albany, Indi-
ana. When the family removed to Minneapolis, Dr.
Stewart entered the University at the age of
seventeen, and graduated — a B. S. and C. E. —
at twenty-one, the youngest graduate of the Uni-
versity at that time. After trying a business life
in the wholesale field for several years, Dr.
Stewart took up medicine and entered the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 1881, coming
out in 1884, again with honors. After two years in
Mt. Sinai hospital and New York City dispen-
saries, he returned to join the staflf of the old Min-
nesota Hospital College; later merged in the
Medical Department of the University of Min-
nesota. He has held various positions in the
University, before taking the chair he now holds,
and is also on the consulting staff of .^sbury and
Northwestern hospitals and surgeon at the City
Hospital. He is a republican who looks for the
right man in the right place rather than for party