Osceola-Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Conover, Wellington James November 10, 1876 - September 15, 1936
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Source: A history of northern Michigan and its people, Volume 3
Author: Perry Francis Powers, Harry Gardner Cutler

A history of northern Michigan and its people, Volume 3
 By Perry Francis Powers, Harry Gardner Cutler; Lewis Publishing Co., 1912

WELLINGTON J. CONOVER, M. D.—Although still to be counted among the young 
physicians, Dr. Wellington J. Conover has found it within his province to 
attain marked distinction in Evart and the county as an able representative of 
the profession to which he has elected to devote his life and energies. The 
birth of this gentleman occurred in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, November 10, 
1876, his parents being Albert and June (Selkirk) Conover. The father was a 
native of New Hampshire, but through his mother Dr. Conover comes into contact 
with the land of "Hills and Heather," for it was in the historic old town of 
Edinburg, Scotland, that June (Selkirk) Conover first opened her young eyes. 
The father died when a comparatively young man at Liverpool. England, but the 
mother survived until the age of sixty, her death occurring in the year 1905, 
in Flint, Michigan. She came to this country in 1890. She and her husband were 
married at Leamington, in 1869. The union of this worthy couple was blessed by 
the birth of three sons, one of whom died at the age of about three years. 
Another, Dr. Thadeous Sidney, is a specialist in nose and throat diseases at 
Flint, Michigan.
Wellington J. Conover is the second son of his parents. He was reared in 
Canada, where his father was engaged in the occupation of a farmer, and it was 
while in the old country engaged in traveling that his untimely demise 
occurred. Shortly after this, when Dr. Conover was a lad of about fourteen 
years, the family removed from Canada to Tustin, Osceola county, Michigan. He 
had already received a good common-school education, and he now completed the 
educational advantages offered by the state, graduating from the Tustin high 
school. An inclination to adopt the medical profession as his own had meantime 
taken form, and young Conover went to Detroit, where he enrolled among the 
students of the Detroit Medical College, studying there for two years. His 
preparation for his profession was concluded in the Medical College of 
Milwaukee, his graduation from that institution taking place in the year 1900.
Fully equipped for his life work Dr. Conover looked about him for a suitable 
location and his choice fell upon Evart and here for more than a decade he has 
engaged in a constantly growing practice, which extends to the surrounding 
county as well as to the town in which the Doctor's interests are centered. He 
is identified with several of the organizations calculated to advance the 
unity of the fraternity, holding membership in the American Medical 
Association and the Osceola County Medical Society among others, and he is 
likewise popular in the ranks of the Knights of Pythias.
On the first day of September, 1909, Dr. Conover was united in marriage to 
Miss Gertrude Postal, daughter of Frank S. and Ellen (Wright) Postal, further 
mention of whom is contained on other pages of this work. Mrs. Conover is a 
native of Michigan.


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