HARVEY JENNER CHADWICK, M.D., the eminent physician and surgeon, of No. 1002 Fifth avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich., was born in Mt. Etna, Huntington county, Ind., February 1, 1857, and is a son of Dr. M. R. Chadwick. Dr. M. R. Chadwick was a native of Wales and a son of R. S. Chadwick, a recruiting officer in the British army. He came to America in early manhood, graduated from the Rush Medical college, Chicago, Ill., practiced medicine in Huntington county, Ind., and in Hart, Oceana county, Mich., fifteen years, and the last five years of his life were passed in practice at St. Andrew's Bay, Fla., where he died in 1893. To his marriage with Miss Caroline Goden, a native of Canton, Ohio, and now residing at St. Andrew's Bay, Fla., were born two sons and two daughters, of whom Ira V. is a prosperous physician in Florida; Julia B. is the wife of George Matthews, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Lottie is still under the maternal roof.

In 1866 the family removed from Indiana to Hart, Oceana county, Mich., where young Harvey J. finished his school studies, and at the age of seventeen years began the study of medicine. He entered the Rush Medical college at Chicago at nineteen, and graduated from the Detroit (Mich.) college of Medicine in 1881. He was elected by his classmates vice-president of the Michigan College Alumni association, was made a member of the Michigan State Medical society, and passed the examinations of the Michigan state board of pharmacy; was a member of the board of pension examiners in Oceana county, served four years as health officer of the same county, also as president of the village of Hart, and as school inspector, etc. He is a member of the American Medical association and of the Grand Rapids Medical & Surgical society, of which he was secretary in 1898, was vice-president in 1899, and has filled the chair of meteria medida and therapeutics in the Grand Rapids Medical college. He is also a member of the visiting staff at the U. B. A. hospital.

On October 1, 1885, Dr. Harvey J. Chadwick married at Rochelle, Ill., Miss Laura Estella Teeple, who was born in Bath, N.Y., but was educated and grew to womanhood in Hart, Mich. Mrs. Dr. Chadwick is a highly accomplished lady and was a school-teacher from her sixteenth year until her marriage. She has blessed her husband with three children, named Eva, who is now twelve years of age, Zella, aged seven, and Jenner H., aged five years. After his graduation in medicine, Dr. Harvey J. Chadwick engaged in practice, in conjunction with his father, at Hart, thus ripening for five years the fruit of his previous study in medical science. From 1886 to 1894 he practiced alone in the same village, and in December of the last-named year came to Grand Rapids, where he now stands at the head of his profession, and is owner of his beautiful residence on Fifth avenue, in which his office and consultation rooms are also to be found.

The doctor is independent in politics, and generally votes for the candidate who is, in his opinion, best qualified to fill office, and in religion, although a firm supporter and advocate of the gospel, is not committed to any doctrinal interpretation thereof. Fraternally, he is a member of lodge No. 34, F. & A. M., and he and his wife are members of the O. E. S. The doctor is also vice-president of the Kent Scientific club, a class literary organization, and socially he and his wife stand in the highest circles of Grand Rapids.