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...

Abstract Dr. Eugene Shelley Browning (1883-1955) was a physician in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Browning was the only African American in his 1905 class at the Detroit Medical College. He broke racial barriers by obtaining admitting privileges in Grand Rapids hospitals and is recognized as the pioneer of present day well-baby clinics. Dr. Browning also studied medicine at Lincoln University, the University of Michigan and the University of Vienna, Austria. The collection contains many of his diplomas...