Legislator Details
Portrait captured from Find-a-Grave.com 6/25/2025
Vital Records Information:
Marital Information:
married Ida L. Howe of Howell, MI, dau. of Seymour and Phoebe (Boutelle) Howe, 1/28/1890, in Saranac, MI; children: 1, Alice Marguarite (died in infancy)
Number of Children: 1
Background
Education:
graduated college in Valparaiso; graduated from Dartmouth Medical School, NH, 1889; post-graduate work at Long Island College Hospital
Biographical Sketch:
English ancestry: son of Michael of County Cornwall and Lydia Chegwin, of parish of Camborne, England. As a young man he worked as a laborer and blacksmith. He began his medical practice in Centennial, MI and later moved to Dollar Bay. He was surgeon to various mining companies. Member of Houghton County Medical Soc.; vice pres. of Michigan State Medical Soc.
Notable Facts:
Exact date of burial unknown. Death certificate says he was born in Ontonagon Co., cause of death apoplexy.