Daniel S. Neuman was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1869. He came to America, graduated from medical college in Denver in 1895, and married Grace Bailey, an Irish nurse. A daughter Elizabeth, was born in 1898. Eight years later Grace died and Dr. Neuman married her sister, Frances, also a nurse. Dr. Neuman had a private practice and was on the faculty of the medical school at the University of Colorado until 1910, specializing in eye disease. In 1910, he became a physician with the U.S. Department of Health and Education in Nome, Alaska, and researched the cause of an eye disease inflicting Inupiat Eskimos. He was appointed to the Board of Medical Examiners for the Territory of Alaska (1917) and served as Federal Physician for the Nome District. Dr. Neuman wrote and contributed to several books, including "The Medical Handbook" and "Animal Stories From Eskimo Land," and published articles about the history and lives of Alaskan Eskimos in the Nome magazine, The Eskimo. He collected Eskimo artifacts and artwork and folk tales which were adapted and published by Renee Riggs. When Dr. Neuman left the Arctic in 1920 for health reasons he settled in Juneau until 1923, then moved to Napa, California, where he grew grapes and tobacco for the remainder of his life. He died in 1935, a year after the death of his wife. Dr. Neuman's collection of Yup'ik and Inupiat Eskimo artifacts is held at the Alaska State Museum.