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Dr. E.M. (“E.M” / Ernie) Kersten and Family

1892-1957


Dr. E.M. Kersten, co-founder of the Kersten Clinic, was born in De Pere, Wisconsin, son of immigrant pioneer doctor, Dr. Alphonse Kersten (born in Rees-on-Rhine, Germany) and Mary Van den Boom Kersten and one of ten children (7 of whom became physicians).


Alphonse began his career as a pharmacist; he once road a horse from St. Joseph, Missouri to California. His sense of adventure was instilled in his children and is present in his progeny yet today.


E.M. graduated from Marquette University Medical School at the age of 21 and did his post-graduate work at Harvard. He met his future wife, Anne Blessington Hinzie, a native Texan, in Wisconsin after she received her degree in music from the University of Wisconsin in 1917. E.M. practiced in Two Rivers, Wisconsin until he moved to Fort Dodge in 1916 to join Dr. F.E. Seymour in a medical practice.



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