Alfred Morley Switzer, M.D. Alfred Morley Switzer, M.D., a popular young physician at 17 West Bridge street, Grand Rapids, Mich., was born in Ontario, Canada, December 24, 1870, and is a son of Benjamin and Anna (Taylor) Switzer, natives respectively, of Pennsylvania and the New Dominion. Benjamin Switzer is of German descent and is a near relative of the late Gen. J. B. Switzer, of Pittsburg, Pa.—a hero of the Civil war. Mr. Switzer was formerly a merchant in Canada, and was also engaged in stock-raising in the United States, and is now the owner of several farms near Ontario. Of the three children born to him beside the doctor, Herbert C. is a student in the Detroit Medical college; Clara A. is now Mrs. Albert Wise, of Clinton, her husband being an active business man and successful farmer, and Bertha M. is residing with her parents in Clinton. Dr. Switzer, the subject of this memoir, received his early education in the common schools of Canada, and later graduated from the Clinton Collegiate institute. He next read medicine for three years in the office of a Canadian physician of some repute, and then entered Detroit Medical college in 1893, completed a three years’ course of study, after which he passed one summer at Bartholomew’s and Middlesex hospitals in London, England. On his return to America, he opened an office in Grand Rapids, in 1897, and here is rapidly rising in popularity as an accomplished and skillful physician and surgeon. The doctor is a member of the Grand Rapids Medical society, also of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Maccabees, of which latter order he is the medical examiner, as well as medical examiner for the New Era Insurance company. Dr. Switzer was united in marriage, November 2, 1898, at Grand Rapids, with Miss Madge E. Hogadone, a native of the city and daughter of George Hogadone, a fruit farmer in the neighborhood, and whose family is prominently identified with the county of Kent, and whose brother-in-law has served several times as state representative and is now senator. Politically, the doctor is a republican in his proclivities, but votes intelligently or as his common sense may dictate.