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Compiled by John H. Wheeler Published in 1903 by B. F. Bowen Biography Page 206 |
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THOMAS A. CORLETT, M.D.
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The practice of medicine and surgery is one of the most exacting professions in which a person can engage. It is alike trying on the physicial and upon the mental powers. Physical strength and vigor are as necessary in it as is the mental ability which must be possessed by him who would succeed. Dr Thomas A. Corlett, the subject of this biography, is a physician and surgeon now engaged in the active practice of his profession at Manton, Cedar Creek township. He is possessed of all the essential qualifications of a successful physician and surgeon. That he is rapidly winning success is well attested by the large and steadily increasing practice for which he is at present caring. Dr. Thomas A. Corlett was born in the county of Grey, province of Ontario, Canada August 7, 1863. His parents were John and Elenore J. (McKinzie) Corlett, native the former of Scotland and the latter of Canada. He is a prosperous farmer of Bendick township, Grey county. Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Corlett, of whom the subject of this review is the third. On the farm where he was born the subject was reared and received a very thorough knowledge of all the elementary branches of learning. Thereafter he took a course at the Owen Sound Collegiate Institute. He attended the Toronto University Medical School three years and graduated from the Detroit School of Medicine In the class of 1892. He was at home until February, 1893, when he located in Manton for the purpose of engaging in the practice of his profession. For the past ten years he has been a resident of Manton and actively engaged in the practice. August 31, 1897, at Cadillac, Michigan, Dr. Thomas A. Corlett was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Stimson, a native of Flint, Michigan, her parents being now deceased. One child has heen born to Dr. and Mrs. Corlett, whom they have named Donald Alexander. He is an interesting child, blessed with a vigorous constitution, which gives fair promise of making for him a long and useful career. Dr. Corlett is a man of genial disposition, affable and quite companionable. He is a man whose sympathies are easily aroused and who ever responds with alacrity to the call from the suffering, whether it be beneath the humble roof of the cottage or within the palatial home of wealth. The duties of his profession bring him in contact with a large number of his fellow citizens of Wexford county. Still comparatively young in years and in his profession, he has all the requisite ability to rise to eminence in his chosen profession and his many friends believe that he is very certain to do so. |