Hon. Franklin B. Galbraith M. D., He was born in Sanilac County, Mich., near Port Huron, dec 26, 1840. His entire life presents a striking example of preseverance, diligence and untiring devotion to knowledge, he has always been an indefatigable worker, laboring not merely at work belonging to his own profession, but also eith the utmost eagerness seeking and storing knowledge purely for the love of it. The result of his unwearied labors has been the attainment of a prominent position among members of his profession, and financial prosperity. His experience in life proves that most obstacles thrown in the ay of advancement may be overcome by zeal, activity and a determination resolution to surmont every difficulty and achieve the honors of success.

Dr. Galbraith comes of substantial ancestry. His grandfather, John Galbraith, was born near Glasglow, Scotland. His father, Dr. John Galbraith, was a native of Canada, who for many years lived in Sanilac County, and there died in 1880. The mother of our subject, who bore the maiden name of Nancy Humphry, was of Canadian birth and Irish descent. She passed away in 1878, two years prior to the demise of her husband. The parental family comprised seven children, only three of whom are now living. One son, A. G., was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, and was Captian in the Twenty-secnd Michigan Infantry. He underwent all the horrors of war, was wunded in the battle of Chattanooga, and lay for seventeen months in Andersonville and Libby Prisons. Finally h ecame home on parole, but died soon afterward from the effects of his terrible experience.

In his early youth, our subject attended the schools of the vicinity, and at the age of thirteen years, clerked in a store. When seventeen years old, he entered the medical department of the State University at Ann Arbor, where e graduated at the age of twenty-one years. In 1860 he went to New York and attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1861. Immediatley after graduating he commenced the practice of his profession, at Lexington, this state, and continued there until October, when he commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Tenth Michigan Infantry. In April 1862, he was sent to Tennessee.

On account of failing health, Dr. Galbraith resigned and returned to Port Huron, and there took charge of the practice of Dr. C. M. Stockwell, who went into the army. In 1863, Dr. Galbraith was appointed Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment with headquarters at Pontiac. He was afterward commissioned as Surgeon of the Tirty-first Regiment, which however, di not go out as an organization, but was broken into fragments which went to replenish other organizations already in the field. The doctor was transferred to the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and with them went to the front and participated in active warfare. When the war was nearly over, he resigned his appointment, and coming home, located in Pontiac. Since settling here, he devoted his undiided attention to his profession, and has built up an extensive and lucrative practice.

The marriage of Dr. Galbraith and Miss Marie Smith, of Pontiac, was solemnized in 1865. Mrs. Galbraith was born in the State of New York, but has passed almost her entire life in Oakland County. The union of the doctor and his estimable wife has been blest by the birth of two children. Grace G. is a beautiful and accomplished young lady; and Stewart S., who was graduated in June 1891, from the military school at Orchard Lake, Mich., is now a student in the literary department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.

The doctor is an honored member of the State medical Society and the American Medical Society, and is a corresponding member of the Academy of Medicine at Detroit. He was elected Mayor of Pontiac three times on the Republician ticket, and his intelligent and faithful discharge of the duties of that office reflected great credit upon himself as well as his constituents. His election was considered by his friends as a great triumph, for the city was at that time very strogly Democratic. Socially Dr. Galbraith belongs to Pontiac Lodge No. 21, F. & A. M., and the Loyal Legion. In 1889 he was chosen State Senator from the fourteenth Senatorial Drstrict on the Republican ticket, and is ever found faithful to the interest of the people whom he represents. His pleasant residence situated on Perry Street, is a large substantial brick building, and is surrounded by extensive grounds handsomley laid out.