History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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state senate in I836-37, and also a member of the first and second constitutional conventions of Michigan. (A sketch of the Doctor is given in
the chapter on "State Politics.")
DRS. LAMB, LAMOND AND ALGER
Dr. Caleb Lamb, a Baptist divine as well as a physician, came to Oakland county in 1830 from western New York and located first in Bloomfield, at Gilbert's lake, and subsequently at Farmington for a time. Hie
changed his practice during his later years in Oakland county to the
homeopathic school.
Dr. R. D. Lamond located in Pontiac previous to 1833, coming there
from Canada, but was a native of the United States. He removed to
Flint where he was for many years the principal physician of the place.
Dr. Josiah Alger located in Troy in or before I831. Dr. Z. M. Mowrey came to Milford in I840, and was in practice with Dr. Foote; was in
the legislature in 1849, and in- the constitutional convention in I850. He
died in 1874 with the harness on, actively engaged in his profession.
DR. JOHN C. EMERY
In the year 1830 Dr. Emery came from Seneca, New York, and located in Novi township. He was born in New Hampshire July II, 1796,
served in the Thirty-first Vermont Volunteers in the War of I812 under
Major Hamilton, and was in several important battles of that war with
the British and Indians in northern New York and the Canadian frontier. The education of Dr. Emery was received in Ludlow (Vt.) Academy, at the Castleton (Vt.) Medical College. and a course of study under
the auspices of the New Jersey Medical Society. He commenced the
practice of medicine in I822. In 1823 Dr. Emery married Miranda
Haines, of Marion county, New York. He resided in Novi until i850,
when he went to California, but finally settled in Lansing, Michigan, in
I868, where he died January 21, T880. Dr. Emery was the grandfather
of Josiah Emery, of Waterford, and Charles S. Emery, of Lansing.
THE OLD COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
The first Oakland County Medical Society was organized by authority granted by the Michigan Medical Society June I2. i831, to Drs. William Thompson, Daniel L. Porter, E. S. Parke and Thaddeus Thompson.
The parent society had authority from the territorial council and was
organized August Io, I8I9. Although the organization never flourished
vigorously, it lived until well into the 'seventies.
THE NORTHEAST DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETIES
In the meantime (June 14, 1854) the Northeast District Medical and
Scientific Association had been formed at Romeo, Macomb county. This
organization had jurisdiction over that county, as well as Oakland, Lapeer, St. Clair and Sanilac. Its first president was Philo Tillson, of