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has continued in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative practice. He
maintains well-appointed offices at Nos. 201-2 Dryden Block. Although
Doctor Stewart graduated in I9o6, he has never ceased to be a student,
and in 1913 took a post-graduate course in London, England. He also
spent about one year in the United States Marine Hospital, and practiced in various parts of the service. Doctor Stewart is a valued member of the Genesee County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical
Society and the American Medical Association. A Republican in his
political beliefs, he was his party's candidate for alderman in I9II, and
has served in that office since April of that year. Fraternally, Doctor
Stewart is a Mason of the thirty-second degree and a Shriner, and
belongs also to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the
L. 0. M. Club, of which latter he is a past director.
On October 23, I907, Doctor Stewart was married at North Branch,
Michigan, to Miss Anna M. Vandecar, and to them there have been
born three children: one who died in infancy; Georgiana, born in 90o8;
and Van Hugh, born in I9IO. Mrs. Stewart's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Vandecar are still residents of North Branch.
FREDERICK LEGRAND TUPPER, M. D. The present generation is very
far removed in more than years from the conditions that obtained when
Moliere could never mention the medicin without contempt, representing him as a mere bombastic quack; and, allowing for the poet's creative
faculty which led him to make classes out of individuals, it may be said
that his contempt was only too often deserved. But today the doctor is
held in the highest esteem as a man of science, whose treatment is based
upon scientific principles, and whose knowledge gained is not mere careless study, to be lost as quickly as acquired, but knowledge that has been
secured through a long course of study, from experts in medical science,
and from actual work in institutions for the healing of the ill. Everything that affects the health, not only of individuals but of communities
and even of nations, is, or has been, the subject of the doctor's investigations, and it is therefore that the profession is held in such high repute.
A man of thorough training, of natural and acquired ability, of devotion
to his chosen work and of broad sympathies, Dr. Frederick Legrand
Tupper is a worthy representative of the medical profession, and since
I901, when he arrived in Flint, he has gained a high place in the ranks
of his calling and an established position in public confidence. He is a
native son of Michigan, born at Clarkston, Oakland county, October 2I,
I858, and is a son of Rev. Alexander K. and Mary (Gamble) Tupper.
Doctor Tupper comes of an old and honored American family,
founded in this country about the year I630 by one Thomas Tupper, a
native of England. A number of the name have come to Michigan,
where they have distinguished themselves in various lines of endeavor.
Rev. Alexander K. Tupper, the father of the Doctor, was a noted member of the Baptist ministry and a native of New York State, from
whence he came to Michigan with his father about the year I828. He
was known also as a popular lecturer on various subjects of importance
during his day, and was a leading Mason of his locality, being the
founder of the first lodge of that order at Clarkston. His death occurred
at Toledo, Ohio, about the year I864. Rev. Tupper married Mary
Gamble, a daughter of Rev. Gamble, a Baptist minister of Belleville,
Wayne county, Michigan, and she died in I863 at Bridgeport, Saginaw
county, this state. There were three sons and five daughters in their
family, of whom all are now deceased except Frederick L. and Mrs. J.
F. Becker, the wife of J. F. Becker, a photographer of Flint.
The early education of Doctor Tupper was secured in the public