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

He is a member of the Wayne County Medical Society, of the Michigan State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth Hunt, who was born in Wayne county,
on the 15th of August, 1858, the daughter of Peter Hunt, who was a
native of England. Mrs. Jones died on the 30th of October, 1901, leaving four children. These are Dr. Arthur John Jones; Eliza Ann, who
married Norman D. Cooper, of Detroit; Jessie Ellen and Charlotte C.
Dr. Arthur J. Jones was educated in Detroit, graduating from the
Eastern high school in 1900. He then entered the University of Michigan, where he pursued the classical course, from which he was grad
uated in 1905, with the degree of A. B. He matriculated in the medical
school of the same university and received his M. D. degree with the
class of 1907. His first practical work as a physician was done as a
member of the medical staff of the Copper Range Mining Company, into
whose employ he went as soon as he was in possession of his diploma. He
remained in their employ until 1910, when he returned to Detroit and
entered the practice in association with his father, while at the present
time he also maintains offices in Washington Arcade Building, in the
business centre of the city. He is a member of the Wayne County Medical Society, of the Michigan State Medical Society and of the American
Medical Association, also a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
and of the medical fraternity of Nu Sigma Nu.
On the 14th of June, 1911, Dr. Jones was married to Corrinne Sutherland, a daughter of Reverend J. W. Sutherland, of Lansing, Michigan.
JOHN TAYLOR WATKINS, M. D. Among the younger members of the
medical profession of Detroit who are fast attaining prominence is Dr.
John Taylor Watkins, who maintains offices in Washington Arcade. John
Taylor Watkins was born at Whitmore Lake, Michigan, on the 31st of
July, 1883, the son of James J. and Mary Gordon Watkins, both of whom
were of Irish parentage. The paternal grandfather, James Watkins, was
born in the north of Ireland, in 1798, and came to the United States in
1832, coming to Michigan and settling on a farm in Oakland county. He
was one of the very first settlers of that county and lived on this farm,
which he owned, until within a few years of his death, which occurred
in Milford in 1872. At Milford, Michigan, he married Catherine Taylor.
The maternal grandfather of the Doctor is Thomas Gordon, who was
born in the north of Ireland, and there married Sarah Stevens. They
came to Detroit in 1848. After living here for a time they moved to
Milford, Michigan, then returned to Detroit, and thence moved again to
Howell, Michigan, where he resides, being now in his ninety-second year.
James J. Watkins, the father of the Doctor, was born in the town of
Milford, Oakland county, on the 13th of August, 1845. He is an able
business man, of an upright character, full of honor and integrity. For
the last sixteen years he has been engaged in the coal, grain and lumber
business at Hamburg, Michigan. His wife was born in Detroit on the
14th day of May, 1855, and she and Mr. Watkins were married in
Howell, Michigan, in 1875.
Dr. Watkins received his elementary and college preparatory education in the public schools of Milford and Howell, Michigan. He matriculated in the department of medicine of the University of Michigan in
1902, and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of '06.
The year that he graduated he began practice in association with Dr.
Edward T. Abrams, of Dollar Bay, Houghton county, Michigan, where
he continued until 1907, then located in Detroit, opening his office on the
corner of Forest and Second avenues. For a year and a half he remained at that location, and then moved to his present offices in the
Washington Arcade.