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Samuel Denton

Professor of Medicine in the University of Michigan for ten years from 1850. He taught Pathology and the Theory and Practice of Medicine. Born July 2, 1803, at Wallkill, New York, he studied medicine at Castleton, Vermont where he received the M.D. degree in 1825 and came to Ann Arbor. He was elected to the state senate and the Governor appointed him Regent of the University, an office he held for four years. He died on August 17, 1860. With the calm faith of a Christian, he departed into the peace of the dead.

1997

This being a translation of the original Latin text from the base of the monument