Lewis Robert May, M. D., of No. 86 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Mich., is a native of Danville, Pa., was born February 5, 1859, and is a son of Michael and Rebecca (Gross) May, natives of Wurtemberg, Germany.

Michael May, after coming to America, was engaged in merchandising for a number of years and died in Philadelphia, leaving his widow and their two children—the doctor and Mrs. Sarah Glouch, now a resident of Texas. The Gross family was emphatically a medical one, that covered several generations in Germany, the family home being at Altdorph, Baden, but of the latest generation, even, the greater portion is deceased or dispersed through other countries.

The early education of Dr. Lewis R. May was acquired at Akron, Ohio, from the high school of which city he is a graduate. He began the study of medicine in Chicago, Ill., in 1881, and graduated from Harvey university in 1894, and was appointed as assistant county physician of Cook county. In 1895 he was a member of the board of health of Chicago, but ill health necessitated a trip to Germany, and while there he took a post-graduate course at the university of Heideberg, and also a course in clinics. He returned from Europe in August, 1898, and in the following October came to Grand Rapids. Here his professional abilities met with immediate recognition, and his course has ever since been upward and onward. The doctor is a member of all the Illinois medical societies, and fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias. He is liberal in his religious views, as in most other things, and in politics is a republican. He still lives in a state of single blessedness.