ERNEST P. SMITH, D. 0.
 


	Dr. Ernest P. Smith, osteopathic physician, with offices in the Canada
building, is one of the foremost members of the profession in Saskatoon.
He is a native of the United States, his birth occurring at Columbia,
Boone county, Missouri, on the 27th of April, 1873, a son of Francis M.
and Hattie J. (Pearson) Smith, natives of Missouri.  The father was
born in Boone county in February, 1840, and Mrs. Smith was born in
Audrain county. The father was an agriculturist and stock raiser and
made a specialty of raising pure bred cows and, fast trotting and saddle
horses. He was likewise active in legal circles and was county judge for
eight years. His death occurred on the 28th of September, 1921, at the
age of eighty-one years and seven months. Mrs. Smith died on the 27th
of May, 1906, aged sixty-three years.
	The public schools of Boone county afforded Ernest P. Smith his pre-
liminary education and after putting his textbooks aside he established
a small country store, which he operated for some time.  His boyhood
ambition was to become a professional man and eventually he enrolled in
the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, from which
institution he was graduated on the 22d of June, 1897. He immediately
commenced to practice in Jefferson City, Missouri, and later removed to
Fargo, North Dakota, where he assisted in the establishment of the
Northwestern College & Infirmary of Osteopathy, and was president of that
institution for two years, when it was purchased by the American School
of Osteopathy.  Dr. Smith went to St. Louis, Missouri, and practiced
there for some time, later removing to North Carolina, and from North
Carolina to Columbia, Missouri, several years later locating in Belling-
ham, Washington, where he practiced until the 1st of November, 1915,
and then came to Canada, locating in Camrose, Alberta. In August of
the year 1916 he came to Saskatoon and has since practiced here.  He
has an extensive, important and lucrative patronage and stands high
among the foremost members of his profession in the province.
	On the 3d of October, 1898, Dr. Smith was married to Miss Anna C.
Hildebrand and they have one child: Francis M., whose birth occurred on
the 3d of December, 1899, and who is now engaged in costume designing
in San Francisco, being associated with Livingston Brothers of that city.
He is at the same time taking special work in the University of California.
	Fraternally Dr. Smith is identified with the Masons, holding member-
ship in the Knights Templars and the Mystic Shrine, and he is also
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of
America. He is past patron of the Eastern Star Lodge and grand sentinel
of the Grand Chapter of that lodge. Along strictly professional lines he
is identified with the American Osteopathic Association.  His religious
faith is that of the Methodist church. For recreation the Doctor turns
to baseball and hunting.



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