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History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 140-141]
         
         PHILIP B. AMUNSON, M.D., of Mondovi, Buffalo county, pro-
       prietor of the Mondovi Hospital, is one of the best and most 
       favorably known medical and surgical practitioners in the 
       county, in which he has resided for 22 years, having been 
       located in Mondovi for the last 19 years. He was born in 
       Springville, Vernon county, Wisconsin, April 30, 1873, son 
       of HANS and LEANNA (LATTA) AMUNSON. The father, born in 
       Norway, in 1846, came to America in 1864, with his parents, 
       they settling in Vernon county, this state. For 17 years 
       he was clerk in the store of PHILIP BOUFFLEUR, a merchant 
       of Springville. He then purchased an interest in the store, 
       being a partner in the business for two years, at the end 
       of which time he sold his interest back to MR. BOUFFLEUR, 
       and, removing to Westby, established a general store at 
       that place, conducting it for two years. Then selling it, 
       he engaged in a grocery business at La Crosse, where he 
       remained until 1904. Since that time he has resided in 
       Mondovi. His wife, LEANNA, born in Ohio, in 1852, died 
       in 1904, the year of his removal to this place. PHILIP B. 
       AMUNSON acquired a good English education, and obtained 
       his medical degree from Rush Medical College at Chicago, 
       where he was graduated in 1895. He commenced practice at 
       La Crosse, where he remained for two years, after which he 
       was located for two months at Alma, Buffalo county. In the 
       spring of 1897 he located at Modena, this county, where he 
       remained until the fall of 1899. He then came to Mondovi, 
       where he has since practiced his profession very success-
       fully. In the fall of 1913, with DR. WILLIAM LINCOLN, he 
       founded the Mondovi Hospital, buying the old Holmes boarding-
       house, which they remodeled and fitted to its new require-
       ments. It is now a well equipped institution, having twelve 
       beds with steel sagless springs and felt mattresses, and 
       other modern fittings of the best quality. DR. LINCOLN dying 
       in January, 1914, DR. AMUNSON bought out his interests, and 
       has since been sole proprietor of the hospital. The surgeon 
       in charge was DR. MILTON WESTON HALL, who, however, was called 
       into the United States service in November, 1917, with the 
       rank of captain, now major, and is now chief of laboratory 
       at the base hospital at Camp Wheeler, Ga. For 16 years DR. 
       AMUNSON has held the position of village health officer of 
       Mondovi. He was formerly, for three years, secretary of the 
       Buffalo and Pepin Counties Medical Society, and is now a 
       member of the Eau Claire County Medical Society, and the 
       State and National Medical societies. Fraternally he is 
       affiliated with the Masons, Knights of Pythias and Modern 
       Woodmen of America, being examiner for the last two. When 
       war was declared with Germany DR. AMUNSON was appointed 
       county physician of Buffalo county, this making him exam-
       iner of the county on the Exemption Board, in which posi-
       tion he has served efficiently. The board is composed of 
       the following members: ALBERT ANDERSON, chairman; JOHN 
       MEILE, secretary; DR. P. B. AMUNSON, examining physician; 
       E. F. GANZ, OTTO ACHSNER, FRED J. BOHRI and J. U. LEUTCHER. 
       DR. AMUNSON was first married July 10, 1895, to EDNA CHAT-
       FIELD, daughter of CHARLES and SUSAN CHATFIELD, of La Crosse, 
       Wis. Of this union there was one child, SUSAN MILDRED, who 
       died at the age of two and a half years. MRS. EDNA AMUNSON 
       died in 1898, and in the spring of 1900 DR. AMUNSON married 
       for his second wife, CARRIE KRAMPETER, daughter of GEORGE 
       and MINNIE (SCHULTZ) KRAMPETER, her father being a merchant 
       of Gilmanton. She died in February, 1908, leaving three 
       children, VERA, LEANNA and ULYSSES SCHUYLER. On Oct. 12, 
       1909, DR. AMUNSON was united in marriage with PAULINE 
       HUSTAD of Modena, this county, her parents being ERIC and 
       ANNAI (KVEUM) HUSTAD, of Modena township.
       
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