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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following, his graduation he was on the staff of the Children's Free
Hospital for one year, in the out-door clinic. Subsequently he entered
the 'general practice of his profession at his present location, where
he has since continued to enjoy unqualified success. Dr. Ulbrich has
been a close and zealous student, has achieved success as the result of
his own efforts and well merits the prestige which he has gained as a
physician and as a man among men. His personal popularity is of
unmistakable and unequivocal character. Fully abreast of the various
changes and discoveries in his profession, he has been a constant subscriber to the leading medical journals, and shows a great interest in
the work of the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State
Medical Society and the American Medical Association, in all of which
he holds membership. He is also a member and medical examiner of
the Lutheran Bund, of Michigan.
Dr. Ulbrich was married to Miss Ida Radtke, of Detroit, the daughter
of Rudolph Radtke, who was connected with the Michigan Stone Works
for many years. Dr. and Mrs. Ulbrich are well-known members of
St. Peter's German Lutheran church.
GILBERT P. JOHNSON, M. D. A representative physician and highly
esteemed citizens of Detroit, Dr. Johnson has here been engaged in the
practice of his profession for twenty-one years, and this period has shown
large and worthy achievment on his part, giving him definite professional
prestige and the unqualified confidence and regard of the community in
which he has thus lived and labored. As a citizen he is loyal and publicspirited and he has served in various positions of public trust within
the time of his residence in the Michigan metropolis.
In the town of Allisonville, Prince Edward county, Province of
Ontario, Canada, Dr. Johnson was born on the 26th of June, 1863, and
he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of that county, with
whose history the name has been identified since the year 1776, the lineage of the Doctor, both paternal and maternal, being traced back to
the sturdiest of Scottish origin. He is a son of William H. and Sarah
A. (Pette) Johnson, both of whom were likewise born in and reared in
Prince Edward county and the latter's father having been a native of
the state of New York, where he was born in the Colonial era. William
H. Johnson was a carriage maker by trade and he was for many years
engaged in business along this line in his native county, where he passed
his entire life, secure in the unequivocal confidence and esteem of all
who knew him. IHe passed to the life eternal in 1909, and his venerable
widow now resides in the city of Toronto, where she makes her home
with one of her children. Her father died in 1910 at the patriarchal
age of eighty-nine years. The religious faith of the family is that of the
Protestant church, and of the children of William H. and Sarah A.
Johnson one son and one daughter are living.
In the common schools of his native village Dr. Johnson found
proper advantages for the early development of his mental powers and
he carried forward his studies through the curriculum of the high school.
As a youth he fixed his ambition on the medical profession as the vocation
of his choice, and in 1888, at the age of twenty-five years, he came to
Michigan and entered the Detroit College of Medicine, in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1891. He proved himself well entitled to the honors thus conferred upon him in the gaining of his degree
of Doctor of Medicine, and prior to his graduation he was fortunate in
gaining two years' of practical and valuable clinical experience through
his association with the work of St. Luke's Hospital, in which he served
as interne and as a member of the house staff. He thus came forth