Johnson Z. Husband, D. D. S., located in the Porter block, Grand Rapids. Mich., is a native of Toronto, Canada, was born April 24, 1858, and is a son of George and Elizabeth (Aiken) Husband.

George Husband is a native of Ireland, was reared a saddler, and in that country married Miss Aiken, a native of England, to which marriage have been born nine children, viz: Levi; Hugh; George; Robert; Johnson Z. (subject); Walter; Ellen; Mary and Susie. These names, however, are not classed in the order of birth, as Dr. Johnson Z. is next in age to the youngest, and of the nine three are deceased, viz: Levi, who was a bookkeeper by profession and died in Michigan at the age of forty-eight years; George died at the age of twenty-one years in Canada, and Walter, quite recently, at the age of thirty-eight years, in Buffalo, N. Y., where he had been employed as a clerk. The parents now reside in Hagersville, Canada.

Johnson Z. Husband received his elementary education at Vienna, Canada, and there graduated from high school. His professional education was acquired at the Philadelphia Dental college, where he completed a three year course of study in 1881. He began practice in Wisconsin, but, health failing him, he returned to Philadelphia, where he passed three years, and then returned to his parental home in Toronto, and for three years or so was engaged in the commission business. He then came to Michigan, and for about eight years engaged in the active practice of his profession at White Cloud, but while there lost his office furniture, library, books of account and household goods by a conflagration. In 1895 he came to Grand Rapids and again commenced at the bottom of the ladder, establishing his present office, and succeeded in building up a very satisfactory practice.

The marriage of Dr. Husband took place in Hamilton, Canada, September 5, 1884, to Miss Lida A. Harris, who was born near Hamilton. Three children came to crown this marriage—Winifred, Russell and Marguerite—but the son was called away at the age of eighteen months.

Dr. Husband is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and he and wife are members of the Park Congregational church congregation, in the esteem of which they hold an exalted position, as in that of the general public. In politics the doctor is a republican, though he is not at all aggressively partisan.