In Manning, Iowa, where he practiced fifteen years, and at Ronan, where he has had his home since 1910, Dr. Resner has always enjoyed exceptional standing and success as a physician and surgeon. Special interest is added to his professional standing by reason of his service with the rank of Captain in the Medical Reserve Corps during the late war. One of his sons, Harold, was also a soldier, an aviator, and saw hard and strenuous duty on the battle front in France.
Doctor Resner has been an American resident since he was fourteen years of age. He was born at Plotzka, Russia, July 22, 1865.
His father, Andrew Resner, was born in the same locality in 1839. He had a small farm
which he cultivated, and also served at one time as chief of police at Plotzka. After the death of his first wife he came to the United States, became a farm owner at
Scotland, South Dakota, and in 1907 moved to Gascoyne, North Dakota, where he still owns a farm and at the age of eighty retains much of his strength and
takes an active interest in his work and his home community. He is a Republican and member of the Congregational Church.
His first wife was Caroline Lyer, who spent all her life in Russia. She was the mother of two sons: Jacob P., manager of the
Masonic Temple at Yankton, South Dakota; and Dr. Andrew Karl.
For his second wife Andrew Resner married Margaret Stortz. They have four children: Mary, wife of Ludwig Hoffman, a farmer at Gascoyne,
North Dakota; Nathaniel, John, and Emanuel, all farmers at Gascoyne.
Doctor Resner attended the public schools of his native country to the age of fourteen. As a boy, on his father's homestead in South Dakota,
he attended rural schools for two years, and in 1886 graduated from the German Seminary at Crete, Nebraska.
Doctor Resner first prepared himself for the ministry, and is a graduate of the Chicago Theological Seminary. He received his degree from
that institution in 1889. Later he abandoned the ministerial calling, and in preparation for medicine attended the University of Iowa at Iowa City,
where he was graduated M.D. in 1895. The same year he began practice at Manning, Iowa, and during the fifteen years of his busy work as a
physician there he was also president of the Board of Education.
On January 25, 1917, Doctor Resner was commissioned at Helena, Montana, with the rank of First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps.
He was called to active duty on June 1, 1918, was first at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City, spent two months with the Twenty-first Regiment at
Taliaferro Camp at San Diego, California, then accompanied the Twenty-first of Camp Kearney, and became regimental surgeon of the Eighty-first Regiment,
organizing its medical service. He continued with the Eighty-first until after the signing of the Armistice. His next duty was as post surgeon of the Remount
Station at Camp Kearney, and he remained there until the date of his honorable discharge on May 20, 1919.
Doctor Resner is still a Captain in the Medical
Reserve Corps, with a reserve commission valid for five years, subject to call by the Government. He is a member of the Missoula County and State
Medical Societies, also the American Medical Association, is a Republican, and is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of
America, and a former member of the Odd Fellows.
Andrew K. Resner died February 27, 1940, age 74, Lake County, Montana; Lydia Resner died June 9, 1935, age 65, Lake County; Carl B., son, died November 18, 1964, age 71, Lake County; Roy J. Resner died June 10, 1941, age 48, Lake County; Harold Robert Resner died December 8, 1977, San Diego, California - also two immediate family members including Pearl Blanche and Robert L.; Herbert Resner died May 15, 1962, Los Angeles.