Joseph H. Dickey, M. D., of No. 37 North Ionia street, Grand Rapids, Mich., was born in Newton Robinson, Ontario, Canada, January 3, 1864, and graduated from the Barrie high school. His parents were John and Matilda Dickey, the former of whom came from north of Ireland, and the latter was of Irish-American antecedents. The father was a farmer by calling and also for some years held the office of magistrate under the national government. He died at Newton Robinson, Canada, at the age of sixty-eight years, and his widow in now a resident of Barrie. Their children, nine in number, were named in order of birth as follows: James, Miriam, Wesley, Matilda, Letitia, Nathaniel, William, Joseph H. (the subject) and Samuel, the last named deceased. Two of this family, besides the doctor, reside in the United States; all the other survivors still live in Canada.

Dr. Dickey, for a few years during his early manhood, was engaged in mercantile business in his native province, and then began the study of medicine in the office of an uncle, Dr. Law, an eminent physician of Bond Head, Canada. After a proper course of preliminary education, he entered the Ontario college of Medicine, at Kingston, passed through a three year course, and graduated June 7, 1884. He practiced at first, for three or four years, at Gravenhurst, and while thus engaged began study along special lines of professional work, and finally took an extra course in gynecology in the Ontario Medical college, and since then he has devoted himself almost entirely to the treatment of nervous disorders and the disease of women. About thirteen years ago he came to the United States, and in 1895 located in Grand Rapids, where he has met with notable success.

Of the fraternal societies, the doctor is a member of the encampment, I. O. O. F., of the A. O. U. W., and the Order of the World, and politically he is a republican.

Dr. Dickey is a widower, and is the father of a son and a daughter—Elbridge Franklin, aged thirteen years, and Alice Adeline, aged ten years, who have been at the home of their grandmother in Barrie, Canada, since 1890, and are there attending school.

The social standing of Dr. Dickey in Grand Rapids is with the most respected residents, and he enjoys a high degree of esteem on account of his personal merits as a citizen, and his qualifications as a physician.