History of Detroit, a chronicle of its progress, its industries, its institutions, and the people of the fair City of the straits, / by Paul Leake ... [Vol. 3]

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HISTORY OF DETROIT

of a large number of the people of this metropolis. He is a native of
Manchester, England, was born April 28, 1865, a son of John Hick
and Ann Eliza (Jones) Waddington.
After attending Stamford Terrace Academy, Manchester, and the
Manchester grammar school, he passed an examination as matriculate of
the British Pharmaceutical Society, and then attended lectures for one
year at Owen's College, Victoria University, Manchester. He graduated
in medicine from the Indiana College of Medicine and Midwifery in
1886, during which year he returned to England, and in 1887 went to
Australia, where he spent two years as surgeon with the Cross survey
party, laying out government lands in New South Wales and Victoria.
Subsequently he returned to England, went thence to Winnipeg, Canada,
and on to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he practiced for ten years. In 1899
Dr. Waddington came to Detroit, traveling the first year as detail man
through Michigan and in Chicago and Pittsburg for Lambert & Lowman,
wholesale druggists. In 1900 he entered the practice of his profession in
Detroit, where he has since attained a representative clientele. A well
read and skillful physician, he possesses the essential qualities and disposition requisite for successful practice, and his success in a number of
complicated cases has stamped him as one of Detroit's leading medical
men.
Dr. Waddington is a member of the American Association of Orificial
Surgeons, the National Eclectic Medical Association, Michigan State
Eclectic Medical and Surgical Society, of which he was first vice
president in 1906 and president 1907-8, and secretary the last three years,
and of the American Red Cross Society. He holds honorary membership
in the following societies: The Illinois State Eclectic Medical Society,
the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Society, the Vermont State Eclectic Medical Society, the Maine State Eclectic Medical Society, the New England
Eclectic Medical Society and the Chicago Eclectic Medical Society. He
received the degree of LL. D., Chicago National University, 1908; Ph. B.,
National Medical University, Chicago, 1908; A. M., Potomac University,
1909, and M. D. and C. M., Bennett Medical College, medical department
Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, 1911, and is ex-public vaccinator
and medical inspector of public schools and a member of the board of
health. He is a member of the Wayne County Medical Society, the
Michigan State Society, the American Medical Association, and also
of the Detroit Board of Commerce. His fraternal connections are
with the lodge and chapter of Masonry, including the Knight Templar
Commandery and the Eastern Star; with the Knights of Pythias; and
with the Court of Honor. He is also a member and the lodge physician
of the Sons of St. George.
GEORGE V. BROWN, AM. D. A sterling and popular representative
of the medical profession in the city of Detroit is Dr. George Van Amber
Brown, who is here established in successful general practice and who
is known as a physician and surgeon of fine ability along both theoretical
and practical lines.
In the town of Leamington, Essex county, Ontario, Canada, about
forty miles distant from Detroit, Dr. Brown was born on the 27th of
May, 1870, and he is a son of Richard A. and Victoria Adelaide (Setterington) Brown, both natives of Canada. The parents of the doctor
still reside in the province of Ontario and the greater part of the active
careeri of the father has been devoted to farming. After duly availing
himself of the advantages of the public schools Dr. Brown continued
his studies in the Collegiate I nstitute at St. Tlhomas. Ontario, where he