to Seattle ran through the railroad's Aberdeen station. In addition, the Great Northern Railway and the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway served Aberdeen at the GN station and the M&StL station respectively. Healthcare Aberdeen has two hospitals, Avera St. Luke's Hospital and Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center. There are several nursing homes in the area, including Avera Mother Joseph Manor, Manor Care, Bethesda Home of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Health and Rehab, Angelhaus and Gellhaus Carehaus. Notable people Josh Heupel Head Football Coach for the Tennessee Volunteers football team, former Head Football Coach for the UCF Knights football team, and Quarterback of the 2000 National Champion Oklahoma Sooners Don Meyer college basketball coach Michael Andrew, Olympic swimmer Bruce Baillie, experimental filmmaker, founding member of Canyon Cinema Sam Barry, Hall of Fame basketball, football and baseball coach L. Frank Baum, famous for his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Joshua Becker, minimalist writer Jerry Burke, organist for Lawrence Welk John Cacavas, Hollywood film score composer Emma Amelia Cranmer, temperance reformer, woman suffragist, writer Tom Daschle, former U.S. senator and Senate majority leader Drew Dennert, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives Justin Duchscherer, MLB pitcher for the Oakland Athletics Thomas Dunn, conductor who contributed to early music revival Makenzie Falcon, Miss South Dakota Teen USA 2016 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss Teen USA 2016 Terry Francona, Cleveland Indians manager Matilda Joslyn Gage, suffragist, Native American activist, abolitionist, freethinker and author Hamlin Garland, author of the Middle Border series. Matt Guthmiller, Once the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe by air Mary GrandPré, illustrator Joseph Hansen, mystery writer Charles N. Herreid, Governor of South Dakota Ron Holgate, singer and actor Buel Hutchinson, lawyer and politician Saul Phillips college basketball coach Colton Iverson (born 1989), basketball player for Bàsquet Club Andorra David C. Jones, USAF general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Roland Loomis, key figure in the modern primitive movement Kenneth J. Meier, political scientist, Texas A&M University Paul Sather college basketball coach Julie Sommars, actress Eddie Spears, actor Michael Spears, actor Kaleb Weis, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives Notes References External links City website Community website Cities in South Dakota Cities in Brown County, South Dakota County seats in South Dakota Populated places established in 1880 1880 establishments in Dakota Territory