Notes for Frank W Shumway

Notes for Frank W Shumway

He graduated from the cleveland Medical College in 1881 and practised at
his profession until 1900 when he was appointed to the State Pardon Board
and also to the State Board of Health, of which he was Secretary. Was a Member
of the Amercian Medical Ass., National Tuberculosis Ass., and of the State and
County Medical Societies. Located to Lansing,MI.
- A.A. Shumway

[FRANK W. SHUMWAY, M. D. We are pleased to present the life sketch
of this professional gentleman, who has made his mark and established
his reputation in Ingham County. His father, Charles Shumway, was born in 1822 at
Evans' Mills, Jefferson County, N.Y., and removed while still a young man to Ohio,
where he was graduated in medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and later came to Jackson
County, Michigan, where he began the practice of his profession at Napoleon. After
a number of years he removed to Lowell, Kent County, where he resided until his
death in 1859.

Dr. Charles Shumway and his wife, Elizabeth Bunton, were the
parents of the following children: Charles A., who is engaged in the book and
stationery business in New York City; Frank W., our subject, and George. The father
carried on a drug-store at Lowell in connection with an extensive practice which
reached through almost every section of Kent County in those early days, and he was
considered a pioneer all through that region.

Christmas Day' 1856, was the primal date in the life of our subject
and he was born in Lowell, Massachusetts When a little child of three years he lost his
father by death and grew up under the care and guidance of his mother. They have always
remained together and she now makes her home with him. In the course of time he
and his mother removed to Grand Rapids, afterward to Ionia and finally to
Lansing, where our subject commenced the study of medicine under Dr. C. M. Haden. He
afterward studied in Cleveland, Ohio, and was graduated from the Western

Reserve College in 1881 and from the Medical Department of Wooster
University in 1881. He had naturally chosen the Western Reserve College as his Alma
Mater as his father had acquired his education there.

Williamstown became the scene of the young Doctor's first efforts
to establish a practice and his success has been pronounced. He has added to his
social prestige and influence by a matrimonial alliance with lone W. Crossman,
daughter of the Hon. D. L. Crossman, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this
work.

This marriage took place October, 1888, in Williarmston. Dr. Shumway
owns a residence in Lansing and some fifteen building lots in that city,
besides a residence on Grand River Street E., and other property in Williamstown.
He is a Mason of both the Blue Lodge and Royal Arch Degrees and is Past
Commander of the Knights of the Maccabees at Williamston, and has been
Village Health officer for four years. In politics he has made himself one with
the Republican party and is an earnest supporter of the principles and policy of that body.

SOURCE: Portrait and Biographical Album
Ingham & Livingston Counties Michigan
BIOGRAPHIES - Pages 605-614
http://www.livgenmi.com/PBbios605-614.htm

Dr. Frank W. Shumway of Williamston, whose biography appears in the
"Pioneer and Biographical Album, Ingham and Livingston Counties," Page 609,
was a boyhood chum of "One of Us" of the Medical History Committee. From
that sketch and personal recollection the following notes are made:

He was born on "Christmas Day, 1856" in Lowell, Michigan, the son of a pioneer
physician of Napoleon in Jackson County, and of Lowell, Kent County. After the
death of his father in 1859 his mother moved to Grand Rapids, to Ionia, then to
Lansing. He began medical study with preceptor of the writer, Dr. Charles N. Hayden
of Lansing, and was graduated from Western Reserve University in 1881, where
his father had received medical education.
He was a good student and physician, a faithful friend. In later years he was
politically influential; was sometime member of the Michigan State Pardon Board.
SOURCE: Library of Congress. Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910. [database on-line] Washington, D.C.:
Library of Congress, 1999. Michigan State Medical Society. Medical History of
Michigan. Minneapolis, MN: Bruce Publishing Co., 1930. Viewing records 3,921-3,970

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