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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admirably fortified for the work of his chosen profession, which has here
engrossed his attention, as a general practitioner, since the spring of
1891, and he has long retained a representative clientage, with a practice
of wide and substantial order. From 1898 to 1903 he served as county
physician of Wayne county, and he gave a most admirable adminstration
of his duties in this office, which he held to be worthy of most scrupulous
care and attention. In 1889 he was given further preferment, in that he
was elected a member of the Detroit board of education, a position which
he retained until 1897, and for some time he had the further distinction
of being president of the board. His interest in educational matters has
been of the deepest order and as a member of the board he did much to
further progressive movements and effective adminstration. He is a
member of the Alumni of the Detroit College of Medicine and is
identified with the American Medical Association, the Michigan State
Medical Society and the Wayne County Medical Society. He has been
medical examiner for Detroit of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company for the past seventeen years. He maintains his office at his fine residence, which he erected in 1900 and which is located at 621 Sixteenth
street.
In politics the Doctor gives his support to the cause of the Republican party. He is affiliated with Ashlar Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, Michigan Sovereign Consistory of the Ancient Accepted Scottish
Rite Masonry, besides which he holds membership in the adjunct
organization, Moslem Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. He is also identified with the American Order of Forresters and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and he is an appreciative
and valued member of the local St. Andrew's Society, of which he has
served as president.
On April 22, 1884, Dr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss
Fedora M. Quick, who was born at Brighton, province of Ontario,
Canada, and they have one son, Clinton D., who is now a draftsman in
the employ of the Hup Automobile Company, Detroit.
HENRI BELANGER, M. D. By very name itself Detroit pays tribute
of honor to its early French settlers, and of the old-time lines there yet
remain many worthy representatives. Dr. Belanger is of the same
sterling French stock that has been so long and prominently concerned
with the history of Michigan, though he himself is a native of the
neighboring province of Ontario, Canada. His maternal grandfather,
Pierre Houle, was numbered among the early French residents of Detroit, whither he came from Canada, where the family had been early
founded, and he was thus a resident of Detroit at the time of the
regime of Governor Cass, concerning whom adequate information is
given in the general history appearing in this publication. Pierre Houle
was for a time in the employ of General Cass and he became the owner
of several acres of land in what is now the heart of the city. He
finally returned to Canada, however, and located at Chatham, Ontario,
in which province he passed the residue of his life. Joseph Belanger,
paternal grandfather of the Doctor, was a member of one of the old
and honored French families of Montreal, whence he removed to Chatham, Ontario, about eighty years ago. He became one of the pioneer
farmers of that locality, where he passed the remainder of his life.
Dr. Henri Belanger has gained precedence as one of the successful
and popular physicians and surgeons of Wayne county and has a specially comprehensive practice in the suburban village of River Rouge,
the village being now an integral part of the city of Detroit. His home