Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Hendryx, Wilbur A. February 21, 1849 - 
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WILBUR A. HENDRYX, physician and surgeon at Big Rapids, was born at Seymour, 
New Haven Conn., Feb. 21, 

1849.  He is a son of Wilson E. and Rosetta (Booth) Hendryx.  His father was a 
mechanic and had charge of 

the Humphreyville Edge-Tool Factory more than 30 years.  He was born in 
Southbury, Conn., in 1810.  Dr. 

Hendryx was a pupil in the public schools of Connecticut until he was 18 years 
of age, when he spent a year 

in the establishment where his father was chief, after which he engaged as a 
clerk in a store in Ansonia, 

New Haven Co.  In 1871 he came to Pentwater, Mich., and began to read for his 
profession in the office of 

Dr. E. N. Dundas, and afterward matriculated at Rush College, Chicago, where 
he graduated.  He attended 

this school in the winters of 1872-'3-'4.  He took there a special medical 
course in anatomy, surgery and 

diseases of the chest, and spent considerable time in special wards of the 
principal hospitals of the 

Garden City.  He went thence to Evart, Mich., and three months later, in 
August, 1874, came to Big Rapids 

and entered into partnership with Fred B. Wood, M.D.  The relation continued 
about eleven months, when Dr. 

Hendryx established himself in an office on Michigan avenue.  In November, 
1881, he admitted Dr. Burkart to 

a co-partnership and the connection existed until November, 1882.

Dr. Hendry is in the enjoyment of an extensive and popular practice.  He 
belongs to the Masonic Order and 

Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the Northwestern Medical Society.  In 
1881 he was appointed local 

surgeon of the G. R. and I. R.R. Co., and in the same yeara as such for the 
D.L. & N. R.R. Co.  He was 

physician in charge of Mercy Hospital three years, and for some time was 
Surgeon of the 2d Mich. State 

Troops, with the rank of Major, but in October 1883, was promoted to Brigade 
Surgeon, with the rank of 

Lieutenant Colonel. 

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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