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Our
youngest brother, Leo Courtney Culligan, was born on December 7, 1897
in Yankton, South Dakota, and passed away on January 3, 1990. His father,
John Culligan, died in 1902 and his mother became a father as well as
a mother to him. We moved to Sioux City, Iowa in 1898 when Leo was one-year
old.
His education was secured in St. Mary's parochial school, Sioux City,
Iowa. He was there until 1909 when he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.
He joined his brothers Emmett and John at St. Thomas Academy and finished
High School there in 1915. He attended St. Thomas College for two years
and then transferred to the University of Minnesota where he is was
admitted into the pre-medical department. He completed his medical courses
in 1922 and after serving one-year as an intern at Anker Hospital, St.
Paul, he was accepted at the Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota for
graduate work in Surgery. He remained there until July 1926 at which
time he began practice with his brother, Dr. John in St. Paul, Minnesota.
In 1930 he received an offer to join the surgical staff at the Veteran's
Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and accepted it. He remained on this
staff until 1943.
Shortly after leaving the Veteran's Hospital he became affiliated with
Dr. Frank Hirshfield, 350 Medical Arts Bldg., Minneapolis where he has
maintained his office up to the present time.
Dr. Leo was appointed in 1944 to the active staff of St. Mary's Hospital,
Minneapolis as a Surgeon. He has taken part in the development of the
hospital, being made Chief of Staff for the year 1951-52, and in 1952
also became secretary to the Lay Advisory Board, which place he still
maintains. He was chairman of St. Mary's Hospital Staff Building Committee,
which was established in 1952. When the Convalescent Extended Care Unit
was opened in 1968 he was appointed to the Board. He was Chief of Surgery
at St. Mary's during the year 1968-69. He also was appointed a member
of the Medical Policy Committee in 1969.
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