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]

HISTORY OF DETROIT

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gained academic discipline that well fortified him for the taking up the
study of the profession for which he had determined to prepare himself.
He accordingly entered the Detroit College of Medicine, which fine institution has drawn many students from the province of Ontario, and in
the same he was graduated as a member of the class of 1894. After thus
receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine he established
himself in active practice at Falmouth, Missaukee county, Michigan,
where he built up a large and successful practice and amply matured
his professional powers. In 1903 Dr. Brown returned to Detroit, after
having completed in the preceeding year an effective post-graduate
course in the medical department of the Johns Hopkins University,
in the City of Baltimore, Maryland. It may be noted also that his
determined ambition to keep fully in touch with the advances made in
the sciences of medicine and surgery was further manifested by his postgraduate work in the medical department of the University of Michigan,
in 1906, and by special study and research, in the summer of 1910, in the
Charity Hospital and the Baer Polyclinic, in the city of Berlin, Germany.
The Doctor is now specializing in the domain of abdominal and pelvic
surgery, both male and female, and in this line he has gained authoritative reputation, as his study and research lias been directed very carefully in this important field of practice. lie is gynecologist and
cystocopist to the German polyclinie of Grace hospital, Detroit, and is
one of the valued members of the staff of this fine institution, aside froml
his large and representative private practice. I)r. BIrown is identified
with the American Medical Association, the Miichigan State Medical
Society and the Wayne County Medical Society.
At Manton, Wexford county, Michigan, on the 6th of August, 1894,
was performed the ceremony which united the destinies of Dr. Brown
and Miss Carrie Adell Sloat, who has proved a devoted wife and helpmeet. She was born at Manitou, Michigan, and is a daughter of George
S. Sloat, who was a representative business man of Wexford county.
Dr. and Mrs. Brown have three children, Ruth Amber, Helen Victoria and Jean Amelia. The family home is located at 55 Gladstone,
where the doctor has office headquarters, and also has a downtown office
on Grand Circus Park, in the Shurly Building.
RAIN BERRY. Though more than ninety-four years of age, tilis honored and patriarchal citizen of Detroit retains the mental and physical
vigor of the average man twenty years his junior, and he keeps in
close and appreciative touch with the events and topics of the day. He
is undoubtedly one of the few men of his age in the state, and it is altogether probable that he is the most venerable of all the pioneers of
this favored commonwealth of the Union. Mr. Berry has been a resident of Michigan for nearly sixty years and for many years was actively
identified with business activities in Detroit, where he has lived virtually retired for the past quarter of a century. Aside from mere longevity his life is an interesting one, and, as may well be imagined, his
reminiscences of the days long past read like a revelation, for his fine
intellect has not waned and he recalls with graphic description many
events and incidents that to the younger generation of the present day
seem like a part of remote history. Revered by the circle of loyal
friends he has gathered about him, though few of his contemporaries
now remain on earth, this venerable gentleman is now enjoying the
gracious evening of his life with the zest of comparative youth and
bids fair to round out a century with strength and dignity, revealing to
others the results of right living and right thinking. It is a matter of