Doctor Hyrum Syndergaard

Dr. Hyrum Francis Syndergaard, one of the able young physicians of Utah practicing successfully in Mount Pleasant, his native city. He was born in February 1883. His parents were Andrew J. and Marie Johansen Syndergaard, who were natives of Denmark and came to Utah in 1861. Soon after they settled at Mount Pleasant Hyrum's father Andrew, became an active factor in the pioneer development of this section of the Utah Territory.

Dr. Hyrum Syndergaard, after mastering the branches of learning that constituted the curriculum of the public schools of Mount Pleasant, entered the University of Utah, from which he graduated, and thus received an excellent foundation upon which to build the superculture of professional knowledge. In 1910, he became a student in the Hahnemann Medical School at Chicago, Illinois, and there pursued a full course, being graduated with the class of 1914. He was engaged in practice at Chicago for four years and then returned to Utah and settled in Marysvale in 1917. But after a year's practice there, Dr. Syndergaard removed to Mount Pleasant. In the meantime he had served from 1905 until 1908 as secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association of Salt Lake. He filled the position of health officer at Marysvale and then concentrated his efforts and attention upon private practice. He was regarded as a very capable and popular physician of Mt. Pleasant, keeping at all times in close touch with the latest scientific researches and discoveries of the profession.

On the 23rd of April, 1917, in Indiana, Dr. Syndergaard was married to Miss Rose C. Keegan of New York City, a daughter of William H. and Mary R. (Egan) Keegan.

Dr. Syndergaard belonged to the Independant Order of Odd Fellows and to the Modern Woodmen of America and was likewise connected with the Hub Club of Mount Pleasant. Along professional lines, he was connected with the American Institute of Homeopathy and also with the International Hahnemannian Society, thereby keeping in touch with the work of the profession and the most progressive ideas put forth by the representatives of homeopathy.

He died on October 8th, 1951 in Los Angeles, California