L. Burton Jacques, M. D., physiomedico physician, room No. 320 Widdicomb block, Grand Rapids, is a representative of one of the early pioneer families of Michigan, being the daughter of Lewis F. and Jane C. (Clarke) Burton—the former of whom enjoys the distinction of being the first white male child born in the township (now the city) of Grand Rapids.

Lewis F. Burton was born August 4, 1834, at a point now on South Division street. (Burton avenue, one of the handsome resident streets of the city, is laid out across the old Burton farm, and was named in honor of his uncle, Barney Burton. ) Mr. Burton has passed nearly all his life in this city, but is now residing on a farm in Ada township, with his wife, who was born in Ypsilanti, Mich. The Burton family is of English origin, and the American branch was founded in Vermont by Josiah Burton, great-great-grandfather of the doctor, while the Clark family is of Holland descent. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis F. Burton were three in number, the eldest of whom was Emily, who was married to Martin Gilbertson, of Grand Rapids, but this lady died here in 1890, at the age of twenty-seven years, and the mother of two children. The doctor was the second born, and Arthur, the third born, is a butter-maker at Ada creamery.

Dr. L. Burton Jacques early graduated from the Ionia high school and then spent two years in the U. B. A. Hospital training school in Grand Rapids, where she laid the foundation for her future professional work. She then, in 1887, entered the Indianapolis Physio-Medico college, from which she graduated in 1890; she also took a course in surgery at the Bellevue Hospital college in New York City, and in the spring of 1890 began active practice in Grand Rapids. In January, 1892, however, she went to Lake Odessa, Mich., and practiced four years, and while there was united in marriage, November 9, 1892, with James Jacques, D.D.S., a native of Canada and a graduate of the Indianapolis Dental college, and at the time of his marriage was following his profession at the Lake. But he was afflicted with consumption, contracted while attending the World’s Fair at Chicago, and this insidious disease so gained upon him that he was obliged to relinquish his practice at the Lake and return to his Canadian home, where his death took place March 27, 1896. The only child borne by the doctor is a bright little boy, George Burton Jacques, born May 18, 1894.

After her husband’s death, Dr. Jacques returned to her native city and resumed practice, and has secured a very satisfactory line of patronage, particularly among women and children. She is a member of the State Physio-Medico association and of the local society of the same designation, is also a member of the Ladies of the Tented Maccabees, of which she has been the examining physician for six years; also of the South End Literary club. She is a lady of refinement, taste, intelligence and conversational talent, with the faculty of securing and retaining friends, and her medical skill has won for her an enviable reputation with the fraternity as well as with the public at large.