Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Dumon, Dr. J. H. 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net June 15, 2011, 7:07 pm The Ionia County News, Thursday, January 15, 1925 The issue of the Centralia Daily Chronicle, of Centralia, Washington, told of the death of a former local resident, Dr. J. H. Dumon, who was born and lived for a number of years in his boyhood on the farm owned by Fred Dumon, near Smyrna and which at that time was the property and home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Dumon. The article in the Centralia Chronicle was as follows: “Centralians were shocked today to learn of the death early this morning in a Portland hospital of Dr. J. H. Dumon, a prominent resident of the city for more than 30 years. The physician’s remains will arrive here this evening. “Mr. Dumon was born in Michigan 74 years ago. He came of humble parentage, and in his youth worked on a farm and in the logging camps of Michigan. While working in the logging camps he saved up money and entered the University of Michigan in the medical department, graduating from that institution in 1877. “He settled at Crystal Lake, Mich., where he practiced his profession until 1889, when he came to the then Territory of Washington, settling in Centralia. He formed a partnership with Dr. T. P. Francis, which continued for some time, and later he practiced alone. His ability as a surgeon and his intense energy and perseverance soon won for him the leading practice of Southwest Washington. From 1898 to 1907 he was recognized as one of the leading surgeons of Southwest Washington. He possessed an indomitable will power and energy and it was no uncommon thing for him to put in from 16 to 18 hours a day in his profession. He never turned down a patient for want of funds with which to pay, and it was a notable fact that he gave the same care and attention to the indigent poor that he did to those able to pay. There is probably not another doctor in the state of Washington who has performed as much service for which he received no pay as Dr. Dumon. “Coming from a timber country, he recognized the possibilities of values in timber in Washington, and early began to put his savings in timber, as a result acquiring considerable holdings of timber, which he sold at a handsome profit, still possessing some of the best timer land in Lewis and adjoining counties. He was a man charitably disposed, and one in actual want and distress never left him empty handed. He was strong in his opinions and having once taken a position which he thought was right, he never abandoned it. He early associated himself with the Masonic lodge and was at the time of his death a 32nd degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine. “Dr. Dumon was the founder of the Centralia General hospital, which was later acquired by the late Dr. Lee A. Scace, and he did much toward making Centralia the medical center of southwest Washington. In the year 1899 he married Alice Jackson, the youngest daughter of Seth Jackson, by whom he had two children, one daughter, Mrs. Carl Hampe, and a son, John.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/d/dumon13333nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb