Henry R. Case Biography, Genesee County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 974


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HENRY R. CASE, M. D. Among the prominent and successful physicians and 
surgeons in practice in Genesee County, this State, whom the publishers 
of this RECORD take pleasure in presenting to his fellow-men and 
associates, is he whose name is above. He is a resident of Grand Blanc, 
where he enjoys a large and lucrative practice, having extensive 
patronage not only in the town of which he is a resident, but also in 
the surrounding country. He was born August 5, 1848, and is a son of 
Richard and Caroline (Clark) Case, both of whom were natives of New 
York State. They came to Oakland County, this State in the '40s and 
were here early settlers.

   The youth of our subject was spent on a farm and his primary 
education was acquired in the district school and on finishing his 
course he became a student at the Flint High School. In 1869 he entered 
the National Medical College, a branch of the Columbian College, 
located at Washington, D. C. Here he took a four years' course and 
graduated therefrom in 1873. He subsequently became a resident 
physician of the Children's Hospital at Washington, D. C., but old 
associations and ties had not relinquished their hold upon his memory, 
and he determined to return to Michigan, which he did in 1874.

   At the date above mentioned Dr. Case located in the pretty town of 
Grand Blanc and has since that time been in constant and active 
practice of his profession. During his residence in Washing-ton, he was 
for three years connected with the Interior Department in the Civil 
Service office, at the same time pursuing his studies and taking 
lectures. The man who has will power enough to pursue a fixed purpose 
in this way, while being under the necessity of supporting himself by 
such arduous work as was that Dr. Case took up, could not but make a 
success in a professional way, nor has he disappointed his friends in 
this respect.

   The marriage of Dr. Case was solemnized October 24, 1876; his bride 
was Frances A. Gibson, the daughter of the late C. D. W. Gibson, an 
early settler of Grand Blanc Township. Dr. Case is a believer in the 
advantages of the Republican party, it to him being the exponent of all 
that is most reasonable in Governmental science. Our subject and his 
wife are in their church relations members of the Methodist Episcopal 
denomination and are actively interested in the social life of the 
church as well as in its spiritual development. Dr. Case is a member of 
the Genesee County Medical Association, and moreover a member of the 
American Medical Association. Although still a young man the career of 
our subject has already been marked with so great a degree of success 
that it is only reasonable to expect of him great things for the 
future. The discoveries in the science of medicine have not been 
exhausted. There are still new and untried fields for skilled 
practitioners and theorists to work upon.



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