Medical doctor and social reformer. He was born to Daniel and Joanna Mcgillycuddy, according the 1860 census. He had only one brother Francis born at sea in 1863 as his parents were going to Scotland.
He changed his name to Stewart so he could also work on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, and still maintained it when he died in 1919 in Rapid City, some 20 year after Valentine went to California. After that France's children took back the name M'Gillycuddy.
The parents were both born in Ireland in about 1822 and his father was still in Michigan in 1865.
The family moved from Racine WI to Detroit when Valentine was 13 years old. He entered Detroit Medican School at the age of 17 and He graduated in 1869. He married Fannie E Hoyt in Ionia Michigan on December 23, 1875. She died October 13,1896, it is believed she developed diabetes, she was buried with her parents in Junction City Kansas.
In November of 1891 Dr M'Gillycuddy received 200 stands of arms that had been loaned to the settlers at Oelricks and Buffalo Gap during the Indian scare after the Wounded Knee massacre. He stored them in the Lakota Bank in readiness for future use.
On October 10, 1899, Valentine married Julia Emily Blanchard in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They had daughter on November 12, 1905 born in California and they named her Valentine. She married Elio Gianturco on Jan 9,1932 in Alameda California.
In 1873 as topographer and surgeon, he joined the international survey team to map the US–Canadian boundary. Dr.M'Gillycuddy came to the Black Hills with the Jenney Expedition in the spring of 1875, climbed Harney Peak—a feat Custer himself had unsuccessfully attempted the year before. The reports of the New-Jenny expedition brought a crush a miners and developers into the Hills. Later, McGillycuddy served as surgeon with General Crook in Second United States Cavalry during the 1876 Sioux campaign for the. So many things he saw and experienced in the West offered sharp contrast to the Presbyterian, Irish immigrant experience of his family.
M'Gillycuddy was appointed the first Indian Agent on the newly named Pine Ridge Reservation during a difficult period. Relieved of duties in 1886, he moved with his Fanny to establish a practice in Rapid City. It is believed by many that if he had been able to continue on the Pine Ridge as Indian agent, the horror of the Wounded Knee massacre might have been avoided. He was not universally liked on the reservation and to this day a segment of the Native Americans do not remember him fondly.
He was treasurer and a director for the Board of Trade and president of the Lakota Banking and Investment Company which was established in June 1888. The town buzzed as the white and then red sandstone walls for the M'Gillycuddy house rose at the corner of Eighth and South Streets.
When the wooden frame of the second story was painted olive green, M'Gillycuddy explained that his years among the Lakota had given him a love of color.
He was elected mayor of Rapid City in 1893. Old colleagues, Professor Jenny and McGillycuddy both affiliated with the new South Dakota School of Mines. McGillycuddy became was president and the dean, serving until 1897, a year after his wife Fanny died of her second stroke.
Valentine left the black hills in 1898 and started in 1898, McGillycuddy served as Montana and Pacific Coast medical inspector for the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was reactivated as a military surgeon during the flu epidemics from 1915 and traveled to Alaska to treat the natives there and later practiced medicine in California. One of the Minnilusa Pioneer Museum's most extensive collections is that which features objects and archival materials documenting the life of Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (1849-1939).
He changed his name to Stewart so he could also work on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, and still maintained it when he died in 1919 in Rapid City, some 20 year after Valentine went to California. After that France's children took back the name M'Gillycuddy.
The parents were both born in Ireland in about 1822 and his father was still in Michigan in 1865.
The family moved from Racine WI to Detroit when Valentine was 13 years old. He entered Detroit Medican School at the age of 17 and He graduated in 1869. He married Fannie E Hoyt in Ionia Michigan on December 23, 1875. She died October 13,1896, it is believed she developed diabetes, she was buried with her parents in Junction City Kansas.
In November of 1891 Dr M'Gillycuddy received 200 stands of arms that had been loaned to the settlers at Oelricks and Buffalo Gap during the Indian scare after the Wounded Knee massacre. He stored them in the Lakota Bank in readiness for future use.
On October 10, 1899, Valentine married Julia Emily Blanchard in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They had daughter on November 12, 1905 born in California and they named her Valentine. She married Elio Gianturco on Jan 9,1932 in Alameda California.
In 1873 as topographer and surgeon, he joined the international survey team to map the US–Canadian boundary. Dr.M'Gillycuddy came to the Black Hills with the Jenney Expedition in the spring of 1875, climbed Harney Peak—a feat Custer himself had unsuccessfully attempted the year before. The reports of the New-Jenny expedition brought a crush a miners and developers into the Hills. Later, McGillycuddy served as surgeon with General Crook in Second United States Cavalry during the 1876 Sioux campaign for the. So many things he saw and experienced in the West offered sharp contrast to the Presbyterian, Irish immigrant experience of his family.
M'Gillycuddy was appointed the first Indian Agent on the newly named Pine Ridge Reservation during a difficult period. Relieved of duties in 1886, he moved with his Fanny to establish a practice in Rapid City. It is believed by many that if he had been able to continue on the Pine Ridge as Indian agent, the horror of the Wounded Knee massacre might have been avoided. He was not universally liked on the reservation and to this day a segment of the Native Americans do not remember him fondly.
He was treasurer and a director for the Board of Trade and president of the Lakota Banking and Investment Company which was established in June 1888. The town buzzed as the white and then red sandstone walls for the M'Gillycuddy house rose at the corner of Eighth and South Streets.
When the wooden frame of the second story was painted olive green, M'Gillycuddy explained that his years among the Lakota had given him a love of color.
He was elected mayor of Rapid City in 1893. Old colleagues, Professor Jenny and McGillycuddy both affiliated with the new South Dakota School of Mines. McGillycuddy became was president and the dean, serving until 1897, a year after his wife Fanny died of her second stroke.
Valentine left the black hills in 1898 and started in 1898, McGillycuddy served as Montana and Pacific Coast medical inspector for the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was reactivated as a military surgeon during the flu epidemics from 1915 and traveled to Alaska to treat the natives there and later practiced medicine in California. One of the Minnilusa Pioneer Museum's most extensive collections is that which features objects and archival materials documenting the life of Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (1849-1939).
Medical doctor and social reformer. He was born to Daniel and Joanna Mcgillycuddy, according the 1860 census. He had only one brother Francis born at sea in 1863 as his parents were going to Scotland.
He changed his name to Stewart so he could also work on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, and still maintained it when he died in 1919 in Rapid City, some 20 year after Valentine went to California. After that France's children took back the name M'Gillycuddy.
The parents were both born in Ireland in about 1822 and his father was still in Michigan in 1865.
The family moved from Racine WI to Detroit when Valentine was 13 years old. He entered Detroit Medican School at the age of 17 and He graduated in 1869. He married Fannie E Hoyt in Ionia Michigan on December 23, 1875. She died October 13,1896, it is believed she developed diabetes, she was buried with her parents in Junction City Kansas.
In November of 1891 Dr M'Gillycuddy received 200 stands of arms that had been loaned to the settlers at Oelricks and Buffalo Gap during the Indian scare after the Wounded Knee massacre. He stored them in the Lakota Bank in readiness for future use.
On October 10, 1899, Valentine married Julia Emily Blanchard in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They had daughter on November 12, 1905 born in California and they named her Valentine. She married Elio Gianturco on Jan 9,1932 in Alameda California.
In 1873 as topographer and surgeon, he joined the international survey team to map the US–Canadian boundary. Dr.M'Gillycuddy came to the Black Hills with the Jenney Expedition in the spring of 1875, climbed Harney Peak—a feat Custer himself had unsuccessfully attempted the year before. The reports of the New-Jenny expedition brought a crush a miners and developers into the Hills. Later, McGillycuddy served as surgeon with General Crook in Second United States Cavalry during the 1876 Sioux campaign for the. So many things he saw and experienced in the West offered sharp contrast to the Presbyterian, Irish immigrant experience of his family.
M'Gillycuddy was appointed the first Indian Agent on the newly named Pine Ridge Reservation during a difficult period. Relieved of duties in 1886, he moved with his Fanny to establish a practice in Rapid City. It is believed by many that if he had been able to continue on the Pine Ridge as Indian agent, the horror of the Wounded Knee massacre might have been avoided. He was not universally liked on the reservation and to this day a segment of the Native Americans do not remember him fondly.
He was treasurer and a director for the Board of Trade and president of the Lakota Banking and Investment Company which was established in June 1888. The town buzzed as the white and then red sandstone walls for the M'Gillycuddy house rose at the corner of Eighth and South Streets.
When the wooden frame of the second story was painted olive green, M'Gillycuddy explained that his years among the Lakota had given him a love of color.
He was elected mayor of Rapid City in 1893. Old colleagues, Professor Jenny and McGillycuddy both affiliated with the new South Dakota School of Mines. McGillycuddy became was president and the dean, serving until 1897, a year after his wife Fanny died of her second stroke.
Valentine left the black hills in 1898 and started in 1898, McGillycuddy served as Montana and Pacific Coast medical inspector for the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was reactivated as a military surgeon during the flu epidemics from 1915 and traveled to Alaska to treat the natives there and later practiced medicine in California. One of the Minnilusa Pioneer Museum's most extensive collections is that which features objects and archival materials documenting the life of Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (1849-1939).
He changed his name to Stewart so he could also work on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, and still maintained it when he died in 1919 in Rapid City, some 20 year after Valentine went to California. After that France's children took back the name M'Gillycuddy.
The parents were both born in Ireland in about 1822 and his father was still in Michigan in 1865.
The family moved from Racine WI to Detroit when Valentine was 13 years old. He entered Detroit Medican School at the age of 17 and He graduated in 1869. He married Fannie E Hoyt in Ionia Michigan on December 23, 1875. She died October 13,1896, it is believed she developed diabetes, she was buried with her parents in Junction City Kansas.
In November of 1891 Dr M'Gillycuddy received 200 stands of arms that had been loaned to the settlers at Oelricks and Buffalo Gap during the Indian scare after the Wounded Knee massacre. He stored them in the Lakota Bank in readiness for future use.
On October 10, 1899, Valentine married Julia Emily Blanchard in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They had daughter on November 12, 1905 born in California and they named her Valentine. She married Elio Gianturco on Jan 9,1932 in Alameda California.
In 1873 as topographer and surgeon, he joined the international survey team to map the US–Canadian boundary. Dr.M'Gillycuddy came to the Black Hills with the Jenney Expedition in the spring of 1875, climbed Harney Peak—a feat Custer himself had unsuccessfully attempted the year before. The reports of the New-Jenny expedition brought a crush a miners and developers into the Hills. Later, McGillycuddy served as surgeon with General Crook in Second United States Cavalry during the 1876 Sioux campaign for the. So many things he saw and experienced in the West offered sharp contrast to the Presbyterian, Irish immigrant experience of his family.
M'Gillycuddy was appointed the first Indian Agent on the newly named Pine Ridge Reservation during a difficult period. Relieved of duties in 1886, he moved with his Fanny to establish a practice in Rapid City. It is believed by many that if he had been able to continue on the Pine Ridge as Indian agent, the horror of the Wounded Knee massacre might have been avoided. He was not universally liked on the reservation and to this day a segment of the Native Americans do not remember him fondly.
He was treasurer and a director for the Board of Trade and president of the Lakota Banking and Investment Company which was established in June 1888. The town buzzed as the white and then red sandstone walls for the M'Gillycuddy house rose at the corner of Eighth and South Streets.
When the wooden frame of the second story was painted olive green, M'Gillycuddy explained that his years among the Lakota had given him a love of color.
He was elected mayor of Rapid City in 1893. Old colleagues, Professor Jenny and McGillycuddy both affiliated with the new South Dakota School of Mines. McGillycuddy became was president and the dean, serving until 1897, a year after his wife Fanny died of her second stroke.
Valentine left the black hills in 1898 and started in 1898, McGillycuddy served as Montana and Pacific Coast medical inspector for the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was reactivated as a military surgeon during the flu epidemics from 1915 and traveled to Alaska to treat the natives there and later practiced medicine in California. One of the Minnilusa Pioneer Museum's most extensive collections is that which features objects and archival materials documenting the life of Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (1849-1939).
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