The county of Eaton, Michigan : topography, history, art folio and directory of freeholders / Bullock, Taggart & Morrell, topographers and publishers.

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Mayor of his cityv; and has held the Ledge in 1870, after twelve years of one year in this ambitious village. He age, a graduat
position of 1ecal surgeon of the 2M. C. hard service in Ingham.county, Mich. comes equiped with papers from the in 1875, a be
and L. S. & M. S. railroads. He served At the age of twenty he commenced his from the Detroit Medical College, dated Chicago & Gra
as, a Union soldier in the late war till studies at Ypsilanti preparatory to 1894. He was a student and practi- the p:st ten ye
its close, in Reg. 103, Ohio Volunteer teaching, but abandoned that idea four tioner in the office of Dr. Tyler Hull, has one compe
S Infantry. He is married and has one years later; and, taking a three years' Dimondale, previous to his graduation. Dr. E. R. Espi
child, a daughter, course of lectures, he graduated at the His only competitor is Dr. G. V. Ran- Dr. E. R.
Dr. Allen C. Dutton, a retired physi- State University in 1858 with the title dall, who was the first doctor to locate Michigan, in 1;
cian now seventy-one years of age, of M D. He is now s'xty-four years here-about 1888. assistant to his
cainme to Eaton Rapids, June 10th, 1856, of age, married, and is "on call" nigoht Doctor Granger V. Randall has pre- g.neral merc
after eight years of medical practice or day, especially day. scribed medicine according to the 182, at the St
elsewhere. He took his degree from Dr. Ambrose Brown took his degree Hahnemann system for twelve years, as he should d
the Western Reserve Medical College, from Charity Hospital College, Cleve- The Chicago HomoeopathicCollege gave ville, and, in a
Cleveland, 0., in 1848. He withdrew land, 0. After thirty years of service him his papers or sheepskin in1883. He partner in a b
S from medical practice in 1864, since at Grand Ledge, hlie is reminded that is the first who located at Mulliken. ministers to th
which time he has been druggist, he is sixty-four years old. He served OLIVET. patrons.
merchant and banker. He has been as Assistant Surgeon of the 193rd Ohio The first physician was Dr. Chas.
called to, and filled, many local post- Volunteer Infantry in the late war. Jennison, Who came in 1845 and died in This little vi
tions f usefulness and r esponsibility; He has attended strictly to his profes- 1846. Then followed Dr. Chase, who tors at present
among" others, he has been member of sion since locating here. also died a year later, and was sue- row. One physi
Sthe city school board for twenty years. Dr. Abram N. Ilixon in mature life, ceeded by Dr. S. Kendall Orr, who con- Abram DeConHe is a genial, high minded gentleman, has attended sick calls for seventeen tinued to practice until 1855, and died, of Dr Armst
it go prospec f mny y s of years; twelve at Hoytville, and five at leaving a widow, who, in 1862, mar- -Dr.John J.
withg(ood prospect of "many yearsofz1 5
useful life. Grand Ledge, his present home. The ried Dr. Asa K. Warren, one of the Dr. Thomas
Dr. David e. Long is an alumnus of State University gave him the title M. three physicians now doing business in forty-four ye
nevan e a CoI eg o C,n D., 18S3. He is one of nine sons, but Olivet. Dr. Gordon, who succeeded Dr. practice in R
1870, and has devoted his attention to not the "seventh." He runs a farm of Orr, died of small-pox in 1858. Drs. A. ago, continui
medicine at Eaton Rapids for fifteen 160 acres in Roxand; and is, in conse- A. Thompson, Martin E. Munger, Asa place. He the
years, giving to Ellendale, North quence, well rated. His fine resi- K. Warren, Wm. Parmenter, Albert medical studie
a other two rsof his pro- dence in the city is located in a garden Thompson, Philip L. Green, Crang, College, and g:
Dakfessionallife. He is,at the age of vwhere he worked for his board, while Book. IHazen, Stockwell, C. H. Mead, at Grand Ledg
fifty-six, married and in active practice pursuing his medical studies. M. L. Meads, George Weaver, Holnes went West, r
H e has had no hankerd ing for offactice. OyrILLE and J. S. Newland have located here ago to the old
MHe has had no hanlkernofor office. HO0. rVILIE.sic15,inteodr aeadfoatieat
Charles Augustus Stinson MA D., a This place, so named from Dr. Henry since 1856, in the order tamed, and for a time a st
young and promising physician, has a A. Hoyt, who first settled there and have all removed or d except War- Prof. E.. Je.diploma from Ann Arbor '91, and a gathered around him a little cluster of ren, Mead and Newland. otr fi
marriage certificate, date not given. houses and people, to whom le minis- Asa K. Warren is one of the oldest Dr. Calvin
He made a special study of eye and tered as physician and merchant, has present practitioners of medicine in Pathie docto
Eaton County. He graduated from equipment fin
ear diseases while at the University, had but two doctors in its history- Oberlin College in the year al College, P
yet he also engages in general practice. Hoyt and Bailey. Or 3eei h e ier of 0. D fo i b in alovePh
Dr. Henrietta A. Carr, located in Dr. 0. S. Bailey, in 1882, came here Universit of M. He is slihtly
Eaton Rapids in 1892 coming direct direct from the State University, and the Un iversity of Michigan. He settled i
from the University 0f Michigan, where has remained ever since. He never had in Olivet in the year 1859 and has been ied.
in almost continuous practice in that
she had just completed her medical the political fever. His parentage was place ever since. His energy and force This town a
studies. At twenty-five she is unmar- Scotch and English; born in Ontario, cac er sne r h t res
L^ &u~i^ ^-p/,?,, _,..,,r '.,of character secured for bimnh epc etTu ns
vied, and has been elected health officer educated at Lansing and Ann Arbor, a cofdce ofh fo i t zes en f1M Snyder
[v] and confidence of his fellow citizens, E.. Sngder,
of the city the past two years, where he took special literary courses who elected him twice to the State Leg- Vanande Ea
-Dr. Mary A. Williams, aged forty-one, in connection with his medical studies. i Wiley was foi
W\ *> L \ ' -F^ -~m. TI-i- s-*i n.islature (one term in each house) and n e a u
has done duty as a physician for four. He has failed to marry. hi f f y as line of Sunflel
year in thi cut. Her presen ad-KLAO continued him for fourteen years as noxune
yearsin this county. Her presen d- LAO. their township supervisor, and, later, of whom thet
dress is Eaton Rapids. Her diploma, This town has at present. two physi- as county treasurer. He has owned years later (18
9from the State University bear. date eians-Dr. L. C. Jones, of the regular and operated a farm in connection with der, located at
v1i91. She is the wife of Hon. W... school, and Dr. Frank L. Snell, homee- his practice since 1865. Drs. Mead and on the foundii
D JWilliams. G y t i opathist. Newland are at present his only corn- field, about 181
SDr. John M. Gallery, in the prime of "From the most ancient times" to petitors, the present ph
life, has had eleven years' experience the present this town can boast of pt. Chas. H. Mead is forty-seven dozen others p
in medicalpractice, allin Eaton Rapids. twenty-two different physicians, most years of age, is married and has one vnden A brief
8 H His commission come t hfeom Board of whom have tried 'their 'prentice daughter. He studied medicine with dent doctors is
b8 ehs s o Board of ban'" and then removed to fairer Dr.Perkeyof Charlotte, dissected a Dr. Chas. N.
United States Pension Examiners, bnt.PeeyofCaltdsecda
has not attained political pefm ent, fields. Of these Dr. J. P. Cessna was subject in. CarmelHall; spent one sum- the Eclectic 2
the pioneer. He is still living, and n mer in,reparation with a Dr. Hooker, nati, Ohio, in....ro a....a..o...g.. '. ' o t n i g h s p ac i e i h o r -, of C a n g Cr o unatyn N wi Y o rk; the fo l-otkha ton,

e of the State University, Onio. His college medical education,nedict; has served the was pursued at Ann Arbor and at the
nd Trunk Railway for Pensylvania Medical University of
mars as local surgeon. He Philadelphia, where he received his
titer, in the person of diploma. Hie was the first to locate in
e. the town of Sunfield. He has also
Epsie, born in Moscow, practiced in Portland, Grand Rapids
865; was brought up as and in Kansas, and is now returned to
s father in Alasherville in the field of his former labors. He has
handise; graduated in a wife and one son.
ite University; married, VEMMONTVILLE.
o; has located in Potter- This village has, during its entire
ddition to medicine, is a, history, been visited by fifteen doctors.
Dotand shoe store. He The first who undertook the unequal
e bodies and soles of his task of battling with the malaria and. wild beasts came in 1837, but gave up
ROXANNA. the struggle with his life in one year.
llage supports two doc- His headstone bears the name of Dr
-Armstrong and Lock- Oliver Stiles. Dr. Dewey H. Robinson
cian preceded them-Dr. came in 1838 and was succeeded in a
-and one took the place few years by Dr. Palmer. Then came
rong after seven years a lime when no physician lived here,
Weaver, since removed. and Bellevue, seventeen miles away,,,McKee Artustrong, is
McKee Armstrong is was the habitate of the nearest physiar land begran his
ars old, and began his an. This '"interregnum" was foloxana twenty-one years lowed by the advent of Dr. R. C. Kedng seven years at that zie, from 1852 to 1863. Dr Stevens
n returned to pursue his and Dr. A. A. Thompson were co-temns in the Detroit'.Medical porary a part of the time with Kedzie,
radnated in 1882, locating who was followed by Dr. Win. Pare for seven years,he then menter. There are now three resident
eturing about one year physicians-Parmenter, Green and
campground. ie was Snell. Their medical histories are
udent in the office of briefl-summarized below.
nks, the President of the Dr. William Parmenter is third in
SCollege length of practice in this county, being
Lockroiw is a homic- anticipated only by Chas. Merritt, of
ri, claiming his medical Charlotte, and Dr. Asa K. Warren, of
m the Hahnemann niedi- Olivet. He is sixty-six years old, the
iiladelphia in 1877, and "husband of one wife." He received.ctice now eighteen years. his degree of M. D. from the State Un- '
past a half century; mar- iversity, in 1857, which was preceded
by the literary degree of A. B., in
SUNFIELD. 1854, from Oberlin College, Ohio, and
nd village claims at pres- followed, in 1853, by the honorary decians-Drs. C. N. Snyder gree of A. A1., from the same college.
B. F. Willey and W. E. M^^ ^^ ^g^e
B. F. Willey and W. E. I-Hespent the first four years after
rly in the 60's Dr. B. F. graduating in Iowa, returning to
and located on the East Olivet, Michigan, in 1861 and to Verd as the first physician mnontville in 1863.
own could boast. Many Dr. PhIip L. Green is past middle
77) came Dr. C. N. Sny- life, has treated the sick for twenty' Shaytown, and finally, si years. He has been located at Verin of the village of Sun- montville for a quarter of a century.
38, we find, in addition to He is a graduate of Adelbert College,
ysicians, about a half Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869. He took a post
sho remained but a short graduate course in Chicago in 1881,
sketch of the four rest- and again in New York in 1887. He
i given below, has declined all office and has kept an
Snyder is an alumnus of eye single to medical practice.
fedical College of Cincin- Dr C. S Snell, a homoeopathic phy1873. He began business sician, locatedhere sixteen years ago; ^

S prooaiy nas no sugu,, . continuing his practice in Ohio. Dr. of Cayuga County, New York; then fol- at Shaytown i
Dr. Hiram Waliter has attended sick John Hall was a contemporary of lowed a year's course of lectures in the Sunfield Villat
c alls for nearly fifteen years. In the Cessna during the 60's, but has "passed University of Michigan, after which he ded the drug 1
year 1880 the Medical Faculty of the oe" i a oae tCril.O
State University thought muali over" He was located at Carlisle. Of practiced in Olivet for eighteen months; but has now a
SState University thought hlm qualifie the later practitioners, mention may be then completed his studies in Chicago He is married
' to prescribe for the sick, and so certi- te opee i tde
fled to prescribe for the sick and so certie made of Samuel Perkey, now of Chica- in 1873, and then came back to Olivet i pr
has held the office of Mayor of the cit go,0 Joseph B. Griswold, a prominent for a permanent location. For the past hard work.
Shas held the office tor the cwas one physician of Grand Rapids, and J. H. fifteen years he has combined the busi- Dr. Edwin 1
oaf ftUnted Stas Pension 9 amn- e Johnson, of Lisbon, North Dakota. ness of druggist with physician. He is for the sick o
Sof the United States Pension Examin- Dr. Lejeune C. Jones graduated from now President of the Board of Exam- years, comm
ers. He is in the prime of man hood. the Detroit Medical College, in 1885, iniug Surgeons for pensions of the twenty-two, a
GORAND LEDGE. from which college he later received ad county from the Mid
5 This city supports eight physicians, eundem degree. He is thirty-two years Dr. J. S. Newland located in Olivet and Surgery o
and is not considered very unhealthy old, has practiced ten years, the last in 1893, after a practice of twenty years also runs a d
Seither. No traditions of its early trials seven in this county, and lives in single elsewhere; is a graduate of the College ried.
Swith its medical men can be obtained, blessedness, after a few years of nn- of Physicians and Surgeons of San Dr. W.EV
Dr. Ambrose Brown and Dr. C. J. Covey congenial married life. Francisco, Cal.', in 1877; he also grad- teen years a
are the earliest of those now resident Dr. F. L. Snell, a homceopatlhic'physi- ated from the Eclectric Medical Insti- Department
in the city. Dr. Lamb was an old clan, has practiced the healing art for tute of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1892. He is and has done
physician here in the fifties. Dr. S. S. the last quarter of a century. He Jis a a gentleman of about fifty, married and this county si
t grduae o theHomeopthicMedcalfield and now
Messenger came in 1866 and died in '90 graduate of the Homoeopathic Medical has not aspired to political honors.
S He was an alumnus of the Michigan College of Chicago, in 1886; is about POTTERvILLE. his present b
S University Medical Department. Be- fifty years of age and married. He has Dr. E. C. Palmer fii'st located here in and the sale c
sides Dr. A. Brown, Dr. Davis and Dr. resided in Kalamo about sixteen years, 1870 and was followed by Dr. E. R. He has lived
Hixson, who are sketched below, there but not continuously. Several of his Espie, in 1892. The present physicians is somewhat 1
are Drs. C. J. Covey, Geo. Green, W. E. brothers are also homeopathic physi- are Drs. Espie and Higbee. registered ph
Wilson, D. D. F. Brown, and Solon clans in this county. Dr. Lewis E. Higbee has followed the of this state
S Whelpley, whose biographies this MULLIKEX. profession of medicine about twenty Dr. B. F.
this scribe has not been able to obtain. Orlando A. Tooker, a young man, years, nearly all ofthat time in Potter- 1830, and in
Dr. William A. Davis came to Grand and single, has tried the healing art for ville. He is a gentlemen in middle: 1n, and later
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n 1877 and removed to a graduate of St. Louis Homoeopathic,
ge in 1893, where he ad- College of Missouri, in 1876. He had
business to his practice, nine years experience in medicine in
Lbandoned that business. Whitefield, New Hampshire before, energetic and at forty- coming to this locality. He is now in
mrise of many years of - middle life, married, with a family of
'three children. He has been village
\.L Snyder has prescribed President several terms and a member
V Sunfield for the past six of the Board of Education a number of
encing, at the age of
Lfter getting his permit years.
igaan College of Medicine ADDENNDUM-CHARLOTTE.
)f Detroit, in 1?89. He Dr. James L. Johnston, at the age of
trug store. He is mar- 58, has retired from -practice, after
active service for thirty years. His ofcanande g'arduated thir- fice studies..caa.-enced in 1858. In
o from the Homoeopathic 1863 he enlisted in the army and was
)f the State University, detailed as assistant in the medical debusiness as physician in partment, Eighth Ohio regiment, in
nce 1883, first in Brook- which he remained till the close of the, in Sunfield; he confines war. He assisted in the only successasiness to office practice ful case of re-section of the hip joint
)f drpygs and medicines, during the war, in March, 1864. He
iearly half a century and was the first doctor located at Chester,
broken in health. He is a 1870-1882, when he moved to Charlotte,
armacist under the laws and retired from business-in 1892, living
now upon his farm. in that vicinity.
tilley was born in Ohio, in Dr. Warren Rand, homieopathist,
tarly life studied in Ober- gives no auto-biography, yet he is in
in a physicians office in business in the city...A