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LEONARD E. HANSON, M. D.

	Dr. Leonard E. Hanson, one of the capable, younger representatives of the medical fraternity in Wallace, was born at Deer Park, Wisconsin, on the 2nd of April, 1879, and is a son of John and Caretta M. (Abrahamson) Hanson. This worthy couple have another son, Walter H. Hanson, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work.
	Reared at home Dr. Hanson acquired his early education in the public schools of his native state, later entering the University of Minnesota, where for two years he took the academic and pharmaceutical course. Having decided to become a physician he subsequently matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, being awarded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1908. In order to better qualify himself for the duties of a practitioner, immediately following his graduation Dr. Hanson entered the Pennsylvania and Blockley Hospitals at Philadelphia, where he served an internship for three months. Following the expiration of his period of service he came to Wallace and established an office and has ever since engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery. He early had occasion to demonstrate his ability both as a physician and surgeon, displaying such rare skill and perfect understanding of both branches of his science that he has met with little difficulty in building up a good practice. In May, 1910, he became associated with Dr. Max T. Smith in the establishment of the Hope Hospital of Wallace, a private institution devoted to the treatment of both surgical and medical cases of a general nature. In addition to his large private practice. Dr. Hanson is surgeon for the Oregon & Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, Hercules Mining & Milling Company, Custer Mining Company, Copper King Mining & Smelting Company, Coeur d'Alene Iron Works, Clearwater Mining Company, C. & R. Mining Company, Ivanhoe Mining Company, Idora Mining Company, Index Milling Company, Lucky Calumet Mining Company, Marsh Mining Company, Tiger Hotel Company, and Tamarack & Chesapeake Mining Company. During the period of his residence in Shoshone County Dr. Hanson has filled the office of coroner, having entered upon his duties on January 1, 1909, and retiring at the expiration of his two-year term, having discharged his responsibilities with creditable efficiency. Although he has not long been engaged in practice, he has become recognized as an able physician, his long experience as a druggist and his thorough preparation together with his natural qualifications, giving him the assurance that inspires confidence in all who come under his attention.
	Dr. Hanson has never married. He is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic order, being a member of Shoshone Lodge, No. 25, F. & A. M. ; Wallace Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M. ; Coeur d'Alene Commandery, No. 5, K. T. ; and also the Order of the Eastern Star. He is an Elk, and is affiliated with Wallace Lodge, No. 331, B. P. O. E.; and belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Wallace Lodge, No. 9. During his student days at the University of Pennsylvania he joined the Greek letter fraternity Alpha Kappa Kappa, and also the Acacia fraternity. He is a member of the National Geographic Society, and maintains relations with the members of his profession through the medium of the H. C. Wood Medical Society of Philadelphia, American Medical Association, Idaho State Medical Association and Kootenai, Bonner and Shoshone County Medical Societies. At the time of the Spanish- American war he was trumpeter of Battery B, Thirteenth Minnesota Light Artillery, which regiment was sent to Cass Lake, Minnesota, to quell the uprising among the Indians at that point, when Major Wilkinson was killed with twenty of his men, and in recognition of this service they were not sent to Manila. The future of Dr. Hanson in his profession would seem to be most promising. He is a progressive man, applying himself conscientiously to the study of all current papers and periodicals pertaining to his science, discarding the old methods for the new whenever he is firmly satisfied that the tests have proven without a doubt the efficacy of the later discovery.

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