Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Whitney, Willard A. December 14, 1844 - 
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WILLARD A. WHITNEY, M.D., Big Rapids, was born at Clifton, Monroe Co., N.Y., 
Dec. 14, 1844, a son of 

Willard S. and Mary A. (Whiting) Whitney.  He was kept in steady attendance at 
school until about the time 

of the Southern Rebellion, when, his interest having become fully aroused by 
the element of patriotism 

which pervaded the whole land, he enlisted at BUffalo, enrolling Nov. 22, 
1861, in the 24th N.Y. Light 

Artillery, Capt. Lee, and was in the service until July 25, 1865.  During his 
long period of military life 

he participated in numerous encounters with the rebels, of greater or less 
moment; among them the battles 

of Newbern, Kingston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, etc., etc.

In the fall following his discharge he went to Lansing, Mich., and was in a 
private academy under the 

instructions of Prof. Olds, where he remained 18 months.  His father being a 
physician, the studious boy 

and youth had gathered a considerable fund of medical information and had, 
whenever opportunity offered, 

read medicine systematically.  In 1868 he matriculated at Cleveland 
Homeopathic College, and was graduated 

in 1870.  He began the practice of his profession at Lansing, and went thence 
to Lockport, N.Y., where he 

remained about a twelve-month, and came to Big Rapids in the fall of 1873, 
where his father, Dr. W.S. 

Whitney, was already established.  Their business interests were conducted 
jointly about one year, when Dr. 

Whitney of this sketch opened an office alone.  He has a satisfactory business 
as physician and surgeon, 

and is now County physician, a post he has held since 1875, with the exception 
of the year 1882.  He is 

examining physician for the A.O.U.W., and also for the Order of Chosen 
Friends; is Surgeon of Post French, 

G.A.R., Clerk of the Board of Education of Big Rapids; and President of the 
Northern Michigan Homeopathic 

Association.

Dr. Whitney was married at Big Rapids, Nov. 1, 1874, to Lizzie E., daughter of 
Alfred L. and Fannie M. 

Clark, born at Oswego, N.Y., May 16, 1854.  Dr. and Mrs. Whitney have one 
child - Fannie M., born at Big 

Rapids, Mich., Sept. 25, 1875.

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

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