Martha Scott Welch and Samuel Denton
SAMUEL DENTON was born July 2, 1803 in Wallkill, Orange, New York,1919 and died August 17, 1860 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan.1930 He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan.1926
He married MARTHA SCOTT WELCH on November 20, 1834 in Washtenaw County, Michigan,29 daughter of JANE SCOTT and HENRY WELCH. She was born in 1810, and died April 1, 1880 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan.974 She is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan.1926, 456
Education
- Samuel Denton graduated from Castleton University, Rutland County, Vermont in 1825.1919
Work History
Samuel Denton
Obituaries
Detroit Free Press, August 19, 18601930
DIED.
At his residence, in Ann Arbor, on the night of the 10th inst., Prof. Samuel Denton, M. D., aged 57 years.
The deceased located in Ann Arbor in July, 1826, and since that tiem, wth but slight interruptions, has continued the practice of his profession in that locality. He represented Washtenaw county in the State Senate from 1844 to 1848. He also served one term as Regent of the University, and at the organization of the Medical Department in 1850 was elected to the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine, the dutied of which post he discharged with great credit to himself and with eminent usefulness to the classes who listened to his instruction. His death is a great loss to the University and community.—Com
His funeral will be attended from his residence at 4 o'clock this afternoon. A freight train, with a comfortable car attached, will leave the Central depot at 10 o'clock this morning, thus enabling friends in this city to be present.
Ann Arbor Journal, August 22, 18601920
Death of Dr. Samuel Denton
It has been the duty of the press to record the death, on the 17th instant, of Professor SAMUEL DENTON who has filled the Chair of "Theory and Practice' in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan since its organization "to the honor of the place, and the eminent usefullness of the classes who listened to his instructions."
Prof. Denton was born at Wallkill, Orange County, New York, July 2nd, 1803, and graduated at Castleton, Vermont. In 1826 he came to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, with the interruption of a year and a half, he had resided in the practice of his profession up to the date of his decease.
He had many offices of public trust committed to him by his fellow citizens. He has been President of the State Medical Association, he represented Washtenaw County in the Senate from 1844 to 1846, and was one term Regent of the University. Prof. Denton's loss to this community with which he has been identified, from the first settlement of the town, is one which is felt by a large cirlce of attached friends who will never forget his many estimable qualities of head and heart.
He was a man of genial companionship, and of remarkable depth and vigor of intellect, comprehending a subject with rare generosity of view. Naturally of few words, but a profound thinker and most suggestive reasoner, there were times when he was more communicative than others, and you felt the ideas he advanced were the result of much and careful reflection; and then he was by turns grave and humorous.
Of kindly disposition and most gentlemanly feelings, those who knew him well will cherish the remembrance as among the pleasantest of their experience. And now that we can look upon him no more forever, it is good to recall his many interesting peculiarities, and know that though that manly form is laid beneath the sod, the noble sould has passed beyond the veil of mortality, and is now where all mysteries are solved, all knotty points in theology unravelled, and the intellect untramelled, purified, and enlightened, goes on to perfection.
If Dr. Denton was endeared to his acquaintances by his social temper, as a physician he ever held a high position for his sagacity, the acuteness with which he apprehended a case, and the attention with which he followed its eccentricities, enabling him to treat it with masterly skill which makred the whole course of his practice.—And in the Lecture room he was noted for his originality, and the felicity of expression which invariably interested and claimed the attention of his hearers.
Like the pebble thrown into the stream is the disappearance of an ordinary life, a moment the surface is agitated, and then the waters close over it and all is calm as before, but when a great and good man is called away in the midst of hsi years, when his sun goes down while it is yet day, all society suffers, for true benevolence guided by matured judgment is not the product of the hour, and nto of common occurrence.
Prof. Denton had lived to see Ann Arbor, from a few individuals, number its thousands, the smiling opening covered with handsome dwellings with their adornings of cultivated trees and shrubbery, and the camp of the aborigines replaced by school, church and college, and the growl of the wild beast succeeded by the low of the farmyard.
In his time, Michigan, which he had watched since it was a territory, had taken a place in the fron trank of the Union, and become a model for advance in agriculture, in commerce, in education, and the enouragement of the useful arts.
Our friend met his last hour with characteristic collectedness and composure, patiently attending to the arrangement of business affairs, he then quietly awaited the end, professing his faith in his Savior, committing his all into the hands of God, he died like a philosopher and a christian.
"The chamber where the good man meets his fate is privileged beyond the common walk."
Com.
Ann Arbor, August 27th, 1860
Detroit Free Press, April 3, 18801932
Mrs. Samuel Denton, wife of the late Dr. Samuel Denton, for ten years a professor in Medical Department of the University, died Thursday afternoon.
Ann Arbor Courier, April 9, 18803904
Mrs. Martha Scott Denton, of this city, who died on Friday of last week, was the widow of the late Dr. Samuel Denton, who was a leading professor in the medical department of the University from its commencement to 1880. She was born in Virginia, and came to this city as early as 1829, and has resided here ever since. She had been a consistent memberof the Presbyterian society of this place 47 years.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| July 23, 1850803 | Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan |
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| June 11, 1860802 | Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan |
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| June 7, 1870801 | Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan |
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