Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 618
DOCTOR DWIGHT SATTERLEE

Doctor Dwight SATTERLEE, physician and druggist, at Dunlap, who is also a member of the present Board of Supervisors, ranks among the pioneers of Harrison Township, locating, as he did, in 1867. He is a native of the town of Ledyard, Conn., where he was born March 24, 1837. In the late war he was commissioned in the Sanitary Corps in the Army of Virginia, and later the Army of the James, as a member of the Eleventh Connecticut Regiment. He served his country about three years, being mustered out in December, 1865, holding the commission of Major. He came to Dunlap in 1867, and was the first physician to practice in the place, which was platted during that year, and at the time of his coming was but a small hamlet.

Politically, he is a stanch supporter of the Republican party, believing in the principles of that great political organization.

Socially, the Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to Hospitable Lodge No. 244, of which he was the first and present Master, the same being the first degrees of the A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to Ark Chapter No. 89, as well as to Shields Post No. 83, G. A. R., of which he is the present Commander; he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias.

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