Abstract James Alexander DeVore (1853-1926), who became a well known Grand Rapids, Michigan physician and his wife, Mary Adele Pressey DeVore (1850-1927), co-authored a diary in 1877. At the time they had been married less than a year and James was completing medical school at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. James and Adele settled in West Michigan in 1878 and later had two children; Elwin and Ethelyn. James began the DeVore Hospital and Sanitarium in 1902. Family...