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Dr. North, a leading physician, and one of the foremost citizens of Tecumseh, Michigan was born in Tompkins County, New York, on October 29, 1850. His father, John Calvin North was also born in Tompkins County on January 5, 1820, the son of Joshua and Jemima (Hedden) North, natives of Pennsylvania, who shortly after their marriage on January 5, 1808, located on a farm in Tompkins County. John C. North was always a farmer and was an honorable sincere and unassuming character, who did his duty as he saw it. In 1860, he came to Michigan with his family and after spending two years at Delhi, Ingham County, Michigan, he removed to Parma, Jackson County, and after a residence there of five years, owing to declining health, he removed to Tecumseh., where he passed away on March 31, 1879. On January 5, 1860, was celebrated his marriage to Miss Abby Jane Gregory, a daughter of Elijah and Amy (Ketchum) Gregory of Tompkins County, New York, born September 27, 1824. They had two children, the daughter, Amy, having died near Lansing, Michigan in 1861. Dr. North was reared on a farm until he was seventeen years of age, receiving the scholastic training afforded by the common schools in the vicinity of his home. On coming to Tecumseh with his parents in 1867, he entered the high school, and for two years was a student in that institution. During the five years immediately following he was employed in a sash, door and blind factory and in 1874 began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. I. S. Hamilton. Subsequently he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and in June 1877, the regents of that institution granted him the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For two years after he remained in Ann Arbor pursuing post-graduate work, and during that time acted as secretary of the faculty of the Department of Medicine and Surgery. In June 1879, he returned to Tecumseh and opened an office for the practice of his profession with Dr. Hamilton. This partnership continued for two years and since that time Dr. North has been busily engaged attending to his own private practice. The first few years of his work he had some difficulty in making ends meet, but he kept his courage and by persistence and industry has won high rank among the physicians of the county. Dr. North occupies a prominent place in the life of the community. For twenty-four continuous years he was a member of the school board, and twenty-three years of the time acted as its secretary. Besides his professional practice he is interested as a director in the Tecumseh State Savings Bank, and the Anthony Fence Company and is one of the trustees of Kalamazoo College. For more than thirty years he has been a prominent member of the Baptist church and for twenty years of that time served as superintendent of its Sunday School. Professionally he is identified with the Lenawee County Medical Society of which he was elected president in 1908; the Michigan State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is also local surgeon for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and the Detroit Southern railways. 
On September 3, 1878 was solemnized Dr. North’s marriage to Miss Ida M. Stevens, a daughter of Asahel and Lucia (Bowen) Stevens. Mrs. North was born at Cooperstown, New York on September 13, 1853 and her father, born to James and Rhoda (Parmelee) Stevens was a native of Springfield, New York. He was a seafaring man and before his marriage visited nearly every important country on the globe. Two children were the issue of the union of Dr. and Mrs. North. Naomi S., the elder was born December 7, 1879, graduated at Kalamazoo College, and taught one year in the Kalamazoo High School. On March 10, 1904, she was united in marriage to Charles H. Williamson of Tecumseh. Cuyler S. was born September 7, 1882, and was a student at Kalamazoo College. While visiting at Albion, Michigan, he met an untimely end in a railroad accident on June 6, 1903. When the Doctor’s children entered the schools of Tecumseh he was a member of the school board and at the end of their twelve year’s course had the satisfaction as secretary of the school board of presenting each with a certificate of graduation. (This is my great grandfather. His daughter Naomi was my grandmother. She died in 1956. I will also send his pic. They are all buried in Tecumseh - my parents, grand parents, great grandparents, etc.) Joyce
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