Tuscola-Wayne County MI Archives Biographies.....Safford, Jason P. 1839 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JASON P. SAFFORD, M. D. An enviable position among the able and successful
physicians of Caro is held by Dr. Safford, who is a practitioner of Christian
Science. As a physician, he is unusually quick in his diagnosis of cases,
skillful in their treatment, and when once thoroughly known, he is most valued
and esteemed alike by high and low. Although he has resided here only a few
years he has built up a solid and steadily increasing practice as a physician
and surgeon and is not only well-known in Caro but also in the adjacent country.
As a citizen, his efforts are earnest and well directed in behalf of the public
good, while his business ability and unimpeachable integrity make him a power in
carrying forward important enterprises.

  A native of this State, Dr. Safford was born in Canton, September 18, 1839,
and is the son of James and Eveline (Adams) Safford, both of whom were natives
of Connecticut. The father, who was born in 1802, came to Michigan in his early
manhood in 1828, returning to Connecticut for his wife during the following
year. The return journey West was made from Detroit overland with oxen and
occupied considerable time. Reaching Wayne County the family there settled and
made a permanent home. James Safford became identified with the growth of that
section of country and witnessed its evolution from a primeval condition of
nature to the present thriving towns and pleasant farms. He entered land from
the Government, clearing and improving the place and embellishing it with
substantial buildings. His home is still in that county, where he enjoys the
esteem of those who were his pioneer co-laborers and the younger generations
which enjoy the fruits of his efforts.

  The fourth in a family of seven children, our subject passed his boyhood days
upon a farm, acquiring a practical common-school education and obtaining a
thorough knowledge of agricultural duties. At the age of twenty he changed his
position as a student to a teacher in the district school, and to better equip
himself for his profession he attended the Normal School at Ypsilanti in the
summer, and taught in the winter season. Altogether he has taught eight terms.
He has also engaged in farming to a considerable extent since reaching manhood
and was for about three years employed as a clerk in a dry-goods house.

  Having decided to become a physician our subject in 1871 entered the Detroit
Medical College, where, after two years of close and arduous study, he was
graduated in 1874. He first located for practice in Plymouth, this State, where
he sojourned ten years, gaining a thorough practical knowledge of medicine and
proving by experience the utility of various professional theories. He came to
Caro in August, 1888, and here he has become known as a reliable citizen, an
able physician and an honorable man. In political affiliations he is a Democrat.
His religious belief is that of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is now
Polder. His life has been quietly and unostentatiously devoted to the doing of
good, and the citizens of the community are not unappreciative of his efforts in
their behalf.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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