Isaiah J. Whitfield, M. D., for the past 10 years practicing physician at Grand Rapids, is a native of Hamilton, Canada, and was born Feb. 23, 1835; he is a son of Frederick J. and Susanna (Churchill) Whitfield, the former born in England and the latter in Nova Scotia. At the age of 21 he made an extended tour of the Western country as far as the Rocky Mountains. On his return to Michigan in 1860 he was married in Ionia County, to Miss Kate Knapp. Isaiah Whitfield served on the staff of the 4th Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. He left service in 1865 as Assistant Surgeon of the regiment. After the war he practiced medicine in Big Rapids and then Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Whitfield has four children, three daughters and one son. He has three brothers that are physicians, one living in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the second in Dakota and the third in New York.
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