DOC HARPER'S

Robert Dana Harper (Doc) was born on the south side of Chicago on January 14, 1911. He grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, graduating from Morgan Park High School at the age of 16, the same year he became an Eagle Scout. He received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed his residency at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth by the age of 25... Doc came to Montana in the Summer of 1936. His first medical work was in Glasgow where he remained until the Fort Peck Dam was all but completed. He established his medical practice in Sidney in early 1938 where, other than for his service as a U.S. Naval Surgeon in the South Pacific from 1943-1946, he continued practicing without interruption until retiring in 1979.

Primary location: Billings United States