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Presidency. Doctor Inglis sustained a prominent part in the local societies, and the Detroit Academy of Medi- INGLIS, RICHARD, M. D., Detroit, was born at Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland, October 28, cine owes its origin principally to his efforts. In 1870 he was elected to the chair of Obstetrics in the Detroit Medical College, which position opened a field peculiarly COM 1828. He was the third son of Rev. David Inglis, congenial to his tastes. As a teacher, he soon acquired a Presbyterian divine, whose memory still lives among an enviable reputation. His lectures were models of the people of Greenlaw. Doctor Inglis received his terseness, were replete with the experience of thirty
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years' practice, and were of the most practical character. | and also Scotland. In 1876 he again went to England His influence over students was unbounded, not only from his ability as a lecturer, but from his genial man- ners, and the lively interest he manifested in their wel- fare. In private life he was cheerful and happy. His religion was not a gloomy asceticism, but bright, broad, and liberal, prompting him to good deeds, and inspiring him with charity toward the erring; it enabled him to lead a useful "life, and to meet death as one who fears not. He married, in 1849, Miss Agnes Lambie. His death occurred December 18, 1874, from septic poison- ing, caused by contact with a specimen which he was
and Scotland, on legal business. His early religious training was in the faith of the Episcopal Church; but, in after years, he became a Unitarian. He has always been identified with the Republican party. During his sojourn on the island in Thompson's Lake, he became acquainted with his wife, who was Miss Margaret W. Leggett, daughter of A. W. Leggett. They have three sons. As an artist, Mr. Ives stands high in the profes- sion, his reputation extending throughout the country. He is a warm personal friend of several of America's greatest poets and writers. His tastes incline not only using in a lecture at the college. At a meeting of |to painting, but also to literature; he excels as a writer. physicians, held at the City Hall, the day following his death, resolutions were adopted expressive of the esteem in which Doctor Inglis was held by the profession. The class of the Detroit Medical College attended the funeral service in a body, presenting a beautiful floral offering
Mr. Ives possesses, in a marked degree, the gift of cari- cature, which, if indulged, would place him second to none in that line of the artist's work. The pen of a ready writer has brought him into correspondence with our best thinking men, at home and abroad. He has as a last tribute to the memory of their departed friend. given some attention to scientific and philosophical re- . searches.
VES, LEWIS T., Detroit, was born near Roches- ACOBS, HON. NATHANIEL P., of Detroit, Michigan, was born in Adams, Jefferson County, New York, October 31, 1828. The family, of which there are but few representatives, came from Bristol, England, soon after the arrival of Roger Williams, and settled in Bristol, Rhode Island, where Nathaniel Jacobs, the great-grandfather of Mr. Nathan- iel P. Jacobs, was born April 6, 1721. Mr. Jacobs' early youth was spent in Paterson, New Jersey. At the age of fourteen, he entered the Academy at South Reading, Massachusetts; remaining there two years, and pursuing the highest branches taught in the insti- tution. The thoroughness of his acquirements, and a wide and accurate reading of the classics, almost atoned for the deprivation of his intended collegiate course, caused by the removal of the family to the West. He came to Detroit, Michigan, in 1840, and immediately began the study of law with Judge, afterwards Chan- cellor, Manning. In this relation he continued two years; but never practiced the profession. being diverted by other business. Mr. Jacobs was, for many years, a wholesale grocer in Detroit, carrying on an extensive trade. He represented the First Ward of Detroit, in the Common Council, from 1859 to 1860, and was choser. President of the Council. In 1862 he was appointed, by President Lincoln, Consul-General of the United States to Calcutta, India. During more than nine years, he remained at this important post, discharging its ardu- ous duties with marked ability, and receiving frequent commendations from Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, and ter, New York, August 3, 1834. His father, Eardly Ives, and his mother, Ann Wood, were natives of England. When he was ten years of age, his father removed to a farm in Canada; and it was here he | took his first lesson in pencil-drawing. After remaining there three years, the family returned to Detroit, Michi- gan. At the age of sixteen, he began the study of painting with Frederick Cohen, continuing in this rela- tion for three years. In the summer of 1853, he sailed for England ; and, after spending some months there, went to France, and thence to Italy, spending the win- ter in Rome, where he studied with William Page, the artist. After an absence of one year, he returned to Michigan, engaging in portrait-painting at Detroit until 1856, when his health failed, and he resolved to study law. He left Detroit, and spent one year on an island in Thompson's Lake, about four miles from Pontiac. While sojourning at this place, he devoted a certain number of hours each day to the study of law; and the remaining portion of the time was spent in boating, fish- ing, and hunting. His evenings were passed in general reading. His expenses for the entire year were only thirty-five dollars. Upon his return to Detroit, he com- menced the study of law with Judge Emmons, late Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Michigan ; and was admitted to the bar in 1858. Mr. Ives was engaged in the practice of his profession until 1874; and, during the greater portion of the time, was asso- ciated with the legal department of the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad. In the summer of 1872, he went to |a re-appointment from President Grant. He returned England and France. He visited England again in 1873, | to the United States in 1872; and, in 1873, accepted the
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position of Land Commissioner of the Northern Pacific | lege in Ann . Arbor, and becoming Demonstrator of Railroad, which necessitated his presence in Washington | Dental Surgery at the same institution. Doctor Jackson Territory until January, 1874. He then returned to his home in Detroit. In politics, Mr. Jacobs was a stanch Whig until the formation of the Republican party, of
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|has been a member of the Michigan Dental Association since 1862, and of the American Dental Association since 1863. He is prominently connected with the Ma- which he was one of the founders in Michigan. He sonic Fraternity, having attained the degree of Knight was also prominent in the Masonic Fraternity, and was, Templar. He married, at Plymouth, in 1864, Sarah Scott, daughter of Winfield Scott. They have two chil- dren. Mrs. Jackson is a graduate of Adrian .College, for some years, Grand Commander of the Knights Tem- plar of Michigan. Mr. Jacobs' first wife, whom he mar- ried in 1842, died a few years later, leaving two children | having taken the degree of B. C.
who are still living. In 1852 he married Miss Catherine M. Huntington, of Troy, New York, who is descended from Samuel Huntington, one of the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence. Mr. Jacobs died at Detroit, on the 30th of April, 1874, after a brief illness of four | ENNISON, WILLIAM, Lawyer, Detroit, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, December 10, . 1826. In Bond's Genealogies of the First Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, and The Giles Memo- days. His funeral, from St. Paul's Church, was attended by an immense concourse, the Knights Templar and other Masonic bodies escorting the remains to their last ; resting-place. His wife, and five of his six children by rial, by Dr. Vinton, is found the history of seven gen- his second marriage, survive him, mourning the loss of , erations of the Jennison family. There appear the
one of the most affectionate of husbands and fathers.
names of William and Robert Jennison, the former of whom came from England, in 1630, with Winthrop, ! in the ship "Arabella." Mr. Jennison's ancestry be- queathed to him an illustrious name. During the American Revolution, his great-grandfather equipped four sons for the cavalry service at his own expense, refusing to permit them to draw any pay from the Gov-
ACKSON, HARRY HAMILTON, D. D. S., of Detroit, is a native of Arcade, Wyoming County,
New York, and was born in the year 1835. He ernment. . After peace was declared, however, the money is the third son of Harry and Aurora ( Hinckley) due them on the pay-roll was drawn through forged re- Jackson, who were natives of Schoharie County, New ceipts. His grandfather, whose name he bears, was an York. His grand-parents on both sides were among the officer in the American army, and was wounded at the first settlers of Wyoming, New York, having emigrated battle of Bunker Hill. Ile died at his residence in Bos- from England at an early date. Mr. Jackson enjoyed ton, in 1843. He was a member of the class of 1774, of the advantages of an excellent common-school educa- Harvard. Mr. Jennison's mother, who died in Philadel- phia, in 1875, was a daughter of Colonel Richard Fow- ler, of the British army, Demerara, West Indies. When seven years of age, Mr. Jennison was placed in the board- ing-school of Doctor Prime, at Sing Sing, New York. Hlis subsequent education was received in the cities of Boston and Brooklyn. When seventeen years old, he was prepared to enter the Sophomore Class in Princeton College, New Jersey; but a protracted illness compelled him to relinquish a collegiate course. His father, Will- iam Jennison, a retired merchant, died at Philadelphia, in 1866. He was engaged in mining and the manufac- ture of iron, in Montour County, Pennsylvania; and the son spent four years in acquiring an extensive knowl- edge of the business. His leisure was devoted to gen- eral study, writing, and the practice of debating. Being disabled by a sprain, he closed this work, and began the study of his chosen profession, at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, in 1850, and received the degree of LL. B. two years later. The West promised a wider scope for tion ; and, when twenty years of age, commenced the study of dentistry in the office of A. B. Botsford. Two years later, he opened an office, and began the practice of his profession. In those days, the science of den- tistry was comparatively in its infancy. Doctor Jackson, not having the advantages now so generally offered in the various dental colleges, was compelled to make his own way by effort and application, feeling the necessity of keeping up with the advancement constantly made in the science of the profession. In 1857 he removed to Gilead, Ohio, and thence to Farmington, Michigan, where he remained three years. His next field of labor was Plymouth, where, during a period of thirteen years' practice, he acquired a reputation as a skillful dental surgeon. Upon opening an office in Detroit in the fall of 1874, he found himself firmly established by the patronage of his former patients, as well as of their friends, who had received ample evidences of his skill. During the time of his residence at Farmington, his younger brother, Walter II. Jackson, entered his office his ambition than the East; and, in 1853, having spent as a student, afterwards graduating at the Dental Col- | a preparatory year in the office of Hon. Alexander D.
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Frazer, he began the practice of law in Detroit, Michi- | New York; but, before completing the course, his gan; and has ever since been in the constant practice health failed from too close application . to study. He of the profession. His refined manners, wide culture, afterwards attended the Castleton Medical College, in Vermont, from which he graduated in 1855. He then returned to his father's home in Indiana; and at once entered upon the practice of his profession. After the establishment of the medical college connected with the Bellevue Hospital, he returned to New York, and graduated from that university. From 1855 until his removal to Detroit, Michigan, in 1864, Doctor Jenks was engaged in the practice of medicine in La Grange County, Indiana; the adjoining county of St. Joseph, Michigan ; and, for about two years, in Warsaw, New York. For four years, he was one of the editors and proprietors of the Detroit Review of Medicine, a profes- sional journal established in 1866. In 1868 the Detroit Medical College was established, of which he was one of the founders. He was elected, by the trustees of the college, as Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women. This position he still occupies; and is also President of the College, having been chosen by the Faculty. He was, at one time, Professor of Diseases of Women, in the medical department of Bowdoin College, Maine; after holding this position for four years, he resigned on account of the distance from his home. Doctor Jenks is also surgeon in the departments for diseases of women, in St. Mary's and St. Luke's Hospitals, and consulting surgeon of the Woman's Hospital. He was the phy- sician of Harper Hospital from its organization, until he resigned in 1872. He has been the chief medical . counselor of the Michigan Central Railroad Company for many years, but resigned lately on account of his
and general interest in all public enterprises favorable to the growth of the place, have made him a valued citizen. Mr. Jennison has been a member of the Re- publican party since its formation. By the work in politics which he has done for his country, he has proved worthy of the name borne by his patriotic ances- tors, and shown himself a genuine son of the Revo- lutionary heroes. He has published five volumes of Supreme Court Reports, -the condensed result of four years' research while holding the office of Supreme Court Reporter. In 1869 he was Assistant United States Dis- trict Attorney, but declined the position in 1870. In 1873 he was nominated Judge of the Superior Court of Detroit, but suffered a defeat. He was a member of the Board of Education in 1872-73, and Chairman of the Public Library Committee. In company with other members of the Board, Mr. Jennison visited the princi- pal libraries of the United States, with reference to increasing the efficiency of the Public Library of De- troit ; and, upon his return, made an elaborate report of the investigations. He is a distinguished member of the Detroit bar; and, in all the various positions he has held, has rendered efficient service to the city. In 1854 Mr. Jennison married Eunice A. Whipple, daughter of the late Hon. Charles W. Whipple, Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan. Mr. Jennison has living three brothers and two sisters; viz., Charles E. Jenni- son, a merchant, of Bay City, Michigan; Rev. Joseph F. Jennison; J. Morgan Jennison, a practicing lawyer ; Miss Miriam W. Jennison; and Mrs. Maria Antoinette other professional work. He has held the prominent Birney, widow of the late Major-General David B. Bir- ney, of the United States army,- the last, all of Phila- delphia.
positions of President of the State Medical Society, and of the Detroit Academy of Medicine. He is an honor- ary member of the State Medical Society, of Ohio; the Toledo Medical Association; the Maine Medical Asso- ciation ; the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society ; the North- eastern Medical Society, of Indiana; the North-western Medical Society, of Ohio; and several minor organiza- tions. Doctor Jenks is corresponding member of the Gynecological Society, of Boston ; a fellow of the Ob- stetrical Society, of London, England; a member of the American Medical Association ; an active fellow and one of the founders of the American Gynecological Society ; and a member of the Detroit Medical and Library Asso- ciation. He is a frequent contributor to various medical journals and periodicals throughout the country. He is Chairman of the Obstetrical Section of the American Medical Association. In 1859 he married a daughter of
ENKS, EDWARD W., of Detroit, Michigan, was born in. Victor, Ontario County, New York, in 1833. His father, Nathan Jenks, was a leading merchant in Victor for many years. At an early day, he purchased large tracts of land in Northern In- diana and Southern Michigan ; and, in 1843, removed his family to La Grange County, Indiana. Here he had previously laid out a village, which he called Ontario. While living in this place, he established and endowed the La Grange Collegiate Institute; which, for many years, maintained a high reputation in Indiana and the |J. H. Darling, of Warsaw, New York. She died soon adjoining States. The mother of Doctor Jenks is still after his removal to Detroit; and, in 1867, he married the eldest daughter of Hon. J. F. Joy, of Detroit. They living. Doctor Jenks attended the La Grange Institute, founded by his father. He began the study of medi- |have two children, -a son and a daughter. Doctor cine in the medical department of the University of |Jenks is one of Detroit's most distinguished physicians.
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and merits the esteem of the entire community. His | counsel for the Messrs. Dwight, in Boston, and Arthur principal characteristic is doing good; the open hand and Frederick Bronson, of New York, he had a very large of charity is always extended to the poor and needy. He is a member of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church, and is liberal in his religious views.
and lucrative practice. One of his most important, as well as most thoroughly contested cases, was that of Mr. Bates against the Illinois Railroad Company. This involved the title of Robert A. Kinsie to eleven acres of land lying under water, in Chicago, where the Illinois Central and Michigan Central depot now stands. This case was fought through the Circuit Court of the United OY, JAMES F., Detroit, Counselor-at-Law, was born at Durham, New Hampshire, December 20, 1810. His father was a manufacturer of edge tools, and, like all sturdy men of New England, States for the Northern District of Illinois, to the Supreme Court at Washington, and continued for five years. A number of eminent lawyers took part in the case, among whom were John A. Mills and Mat. McLean, on appreciated the value of an education. He was a Re- the part of the plaintiff, while Mr. Joy alone fought for publican in politics; a Calvinist and Congregationalist the defendants, and won the case. The arguments in in religion. He earnestly sought the moral and spiritual the case were exhaustive; and it is no exaggeration to culture of his children,-teaching them to be honest in ' say that they have settled this law of accretion and their dealings, prudent in their expenditures, zealous in | diminution of alluvion in the United States. The plaint- their studies, and regular in their attendance upon re- iff in the suit, disappointed and dissatisfied as he was ligious exercises. Early rising, hard work, plain and : with the result, is ready to bear witness that, in the substantial fare, was the daily discipline of his family. ; whole management of the case, Mr. Joy bore himself James F. Joy attended the common schools of New with perfect fairness, fidelity, and honesty. In 1847. Hampshire, and afterwards spent some time in teaching. 'when Michigan, like other North-western States, found In this way he obtained means, which, added to what itself bankrupt, by reason of a large system of internal his father could give, enabled him to complete his ! improvements, Mr. Joy used his influence, through Mr. studies. He entered Dartmouth College, from which John W. Brooks, an eminent railroad engineer, to per- he graduated in 1835, and delivered the valedictory suade Boston capitalists to buy the Michigan Central address. He then went to Cambridge and entered the Railroad, and complete it to Chicago. From that time law school, where he became the protege of Joseph, to the present, Mr. Joy has been identified with this Story. Encouraged by this friendship, and that of | great commercial highway ; and has used all his time Greenleaf, Mr. Joy laid the foundation of his future suc- 'and ability as the attorney, counselor, and assistant of cess. Judge Story frequently spoke in high praise of . John W. Brooks, its President. For twenty years its Mr. Joy's devotion to the law; and, as early as 1840, carning> were very large; its management was econom- predicted his triumph in any course he should select. ical, and its annual dividends were promptly paid. All Not being able to continue his studies, he obtained a the towns and villages sprung into full life, and Mich- situation as preceptor in the academy at Pittsfield, and igan resumed her credit. On the completion of this road, Mr. Joy organized the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Company, and induced his friends in Boston and Detroit to take stock. This company was to build a road from Chicago to Burlington and Quincy on the
also instructed the classes in Latin at Dartmouth Col- lege. At the end of a year he returned to Cambridge, where he completed his studies. In September, 1836, he went to Detroit, and entered the law office of Hon. Augustus S. Porter, one of the noblest men that ever Mississippi River, which would open up one of the represented Michigan in the Senate of the United States. In 1837 he was admitted to the bar in Detroit, and became the partner of George F. Porter, who was for- merly a banker. They soon became attorneys and finest tracks over the richest prairies. He walked over the whole route, and saw millions of bushels of corn used for fuel, because there was no way of transporting it to market. This road, built at a cost of sixty million counsel of the old Bank of Michigan, the only banking i dollars, has paid annual dividends of ten per cent., and institution of the North-west. It failed in the crash of 1841 and 1843, and thus gave a lucrative business to the firm of Joy & Porter. From his admission to the | bar, Mr. Joy was employed in nearly all the most im- portant cases in the State and Federal Courts; and, to each case in turn, he devoted great energy. He never tried a case until he had sounded it to its depth .. His arguments were always distinguished by condensation, is managed better than any other road in the North- west. Mr. Joy completed the connection of this road with the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad; had the three splendid iron bridges built, at Burlington, Quincy, and Plattsmouth, over the Mississippi and Missouri rivers; and extended a branch road into Indian Territory. As a part of his plan, he purchased, for the co-operators, eight hundred thousand acres of the finest land in the clearness, and power. From 1836 to 1847, as leading | United States, at one dollar per acre. He crossed the
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LEIN, DOCTOR PETER, of Detroit, Michi- gan, was born September 12, 1813, in Oermin- gen, Canton of Saar-union, Department of the Lower Rhine, Alsace, France. He is the second son of Frederick and Eva ( Maitzloff) Klein. His father was a farmer, and died when Doctor Klein was seven years
Mississippi at Burlington, drove the work on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, over the Missouri, at Plattsmouth, and fixed its western terminus at Fort Kearney, in Nebraska; thus making a continuous rail- way route from Detroit to the Indian Territory, on the south, and the one hundredth meridian on the west. In 1865 Mr. Joy became President of the Michigan ! of age; his mother married again, and, in 1828, emi- Railroad, as successor to Mr. Brooks, whose health had ! grated to America. They sailed from Havre de Grace, failed. In order that this railroad might successfully | in the brig "Globe;" and, after a tedious and danger- compete with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, and other roads leading more directly from Chicago to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, Mr. Joy advised and managed-as aux- iliaries to the Michigan Central -the construction of the Michigan Lake Shore Railroad, from St. Joseph to Grand Rapids; the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Rail- road; the Detroit, Lansing and Michigan Railroad; and the Detroit and Bay City Railroad. Although these railways have not proved financially successful to the stockholders, they have enriched the State of Michigan, by hundreds of millions of dollars, by opening the pine forests of the north and the valleys of the Saginaw, Shiawassee, and Grand rivers. Mr. Joy was an earnest Whig as long as that party lasted. Since 1855, when the Republican party was organized at Jackson, he has been a firm Republican. At the beginning of the civil war, he spent one term in the Legislature. Aside from this, he has held no public office. He has no sympathy with the chicanery of political partisans. He has been a faithful, but somewhat liberal, Congregationalist,- his Puritan ideas having been modified by study and thought. In all these years, Mr. Joy has changed only to advance. His conflict with the world, his thorough study of ancient and modern science,-hours spent with Socrates, Cicero, Spencer, Tindall, Huxley, and the great French philosophers,-have so liberalized and improved his mind, that his views of life and its duties are now very broad and sound. Amid all the responsibilities of
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