Will DeLano, M. D., of the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., is a native of Groton, Tompkins county, N. Y., was born July 14, 1861, and is a son of Martin S. and Jane (Bothwell) DeLano the former a native of Connecticut and the latter of New York state.

Martin S. DeLano was a tobacconist and cigar manufacturer at Ithaca, N. Y., was a very prosperous business man, and retained his interest in Ithaca even after his removal to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1887, and here his death took place at the age of sixty-eight years, and here also, his widow still resides. Of the four children born to these parents there are three surviving viz: Frederick B., who for the past twenty-five years has been connected with Lehigh Valley Railroad company with his residence in Ithaca, and is the eldest, the third child is the subject of this sketch, and the youngest is Edgar B., who is employed in a wholesale millinery establishment in Grand Rapids. The second born of the four was named D. F., and died in Grand Rapids at the age of twenty-nine years.

Dr. Will DeLano was educated in Ithaca, but in 1876 left the high school and entered a drug store, in which he was employed for three years, and then entered the college of Pharmacy in New York City, from which he graduated in 1881. He then resumed the drug business and followed it one year longer, when he took up the study of medicine under Dr. D. W. White, a prominent physician of Ithaca. After due tuition by this gentleman, he entered the Eclectic Medical institute of Cincinnati, graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1885, practiced one year in Ithaca, and in March 1886, arrived in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he has since been actively employed in his profession. In politics a democrat, he was appointed in September, 1898, city health officer, and although busily occupied in municipal duties, he still retains his original consulting rooms in the "Gilbert," in order to attend to his private patronage.

Dr. DeLano was married at Ithaca, N. Y., October 26, 1887, the lady of his choice being Miss Helen White, the daughter of his early preceptor in medicine and a native of that city. This union has been crowned by the birth of two daughters, Agnes, age ten years, and Marian, aged seven.

Of the professional societies, the doctor is a member of the Michigan State Homeopathic society and the Grand Rapids college of Homeopathic Physicians, and a fraternal societies he holds membership in several that embrace the life-insurance feature.