FRANK LYDSTON NEWMAN The Michigan metropolis has every reason to be proud of the general personnel of its representative medical practitioners, and also of its educational institutions in this professional line. Here are to be found many men of fine technical ability, sterling character and earnest detention in the ranks of this great and humane profession and a place of distinctive priority must be accorded to Dr. Newman, who has won this prestige by worthy service and high actunting motives. He is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Detroit, is a member of the faculty of the Detroit College of Medicine, and is a citizen who stands exponent of the utmost loyalty and public spirit. He has been engaged in the active practice of his profession in Detroit for a quarter of a century and he has won secure vantage ground in the confidence and esteem of the community. Aside from his position at the present time there are numerous interesting points to be noted in connection with the career of Dr. Newman, whose success and precedence stand as the direct results of his own ability and admirable efforts. Dr. Frank Lydstou Newman is a scion of the staunches of English stock, on both the (internal and maternal sides, and he himself is a native of the "right little, tight little isle.'' He was born in Norfolk, England, on the 4th of February, 1859, and is a son of Sir. William John Newman and Sarah Ann (Johnson) Newman, concerning whom further mention will be made in a later paragraph of this context. When Dr. Newman was a child his parents removed to the island of Jersey, in the English channel, and on this beautiful isle he gained his earlier educational discipline. At Saint Helier's the capital town of the island, he entered Victoria College, from which he graduated. Thereafter he continued bis academic studies of more advanced order at Dieppe, France, and it may be noted incidentally that he speaks the French language with the utmost precision and fluency. In 1880, before attaining to his legal majority. Dr. Newman came to America and he passed the first five years in Canada,—principally in the city of Toronto. He then came to Detroit, where he entered the Detroit College of Medicine, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1886, and from which he secured his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. As is invariably true in the case of the young physician entering practice, he had to serve the usual professional novitiate, but this was of very brief duration, as he soon proved his powers, discrimination and thoroughness and his earnest devotion to his chosen calling, the while his personality gained and retained for him from the beginning the confidence and esteem of those to whom he ministered or otherwise came in contact in the varied relations of life. Thus the long intervening years have brought to Dr. Newman a stable and honorable preslige as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his home city and state; as a man of generous impulses, abiding human sympathy and impregnable integrity of purpose; and as a citizen ever ready to lend his co-operation in the furtherance of measures and undertakings for the general good of the community. In 1893 he was appointed to the chair of material mcdical in the Detroit College of Medicine, and of this position he has since continued the honored and valued incumbent. He is one of the strong and popular members of the faculty of this admirable institution and has become a prominent factor in connection with the educational work of his profession. His private practice is widely disseminated through the city and is of distinctly representative character, though his high appreciation of the dignity and responsibilities of his profession has been shown in no way more worthily than in his kindly ministrations to the poor and needy and ready sympathy for "all those in any ways afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body or estate. The doctor is one of the active and influential members of the Medical Library Association, of which he has served as vice-president, and he holds membership in the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He has lieeu a frequent and valued contributor to the periodical literature of bis profession and baa otherwise contributed to the advancement and efficacy of medical and surgical Science. In politics Dr. Newman, who has lived in five different countries for varying intervals, has found in the United States a party worthy of his allegiance, and he is arrayed as a staunch supporter of the principles of the Republican party, though he has never had any desire to enter the arena of practical politics. He holds membership in the Boylston Club, the Country Club and the Detroit Hoat Club, and both he and his wife are communicants of Christ church. On the 30th of October, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Newman to Miss Amy Gallon, daughter of James Gallon, a representative citizen of Toronto, Canada, and the two children of this union are Dorothy and Nesta. Reverting, in conclusion, to the parents of Dr. Newman, it may be noted that both were born and reared in the city of London, England. The father. Dr. William John Newman, was a distinguished physician and surgeon in his native city, where he passed the major part of his life and where he was a member of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons. He died in London in the year 1891 and bis widow thereafter came to Detroit. Michigan, where she passed the closing years of her life in the home of her son, Dr. Frank L. Newman, of this review. History of Detroit: a chronicle of its progress, its industries ..., Volume 2 By Paul Leake