An Early Graduate Gone

Detroit papers of recent date give; an account of the life of the late Dr. Edward Potts Christian, of Wyandotte, who was oiie of the first graduates of the üniversity, and the very flrst Detroit boy to secure the degree of A. B., which he did from the Michigan university in 1847. Thig leaves 01 ly one per son living who graduated from the Üniversity that year. Dr. Christian soon rose to prominence in his profe8sion, and was long considered one of the foremost practitioners in the state. He was at one time president of the state medical society, and at various periods a delégate to the National and Internad n: 1 n:e lical rsiociations ; member of the board of visitors to the üniversity ; for many years one of the editors of the Michigan Journal )f Medicine, and a frequent contributor to otlier medical and health journals. He was a inember of the first board of alderman of Wyandotte, and the second mayor of the city. For 12 years he was a member of the board of éducation, and most of that period its chairman. He was a charter member of Wyandotte lodge of Masons, and Wyandotte lodge of the Knights of Honor; the oldest member of the Chi Psi society of the U. of M.j and senior warden of St. Stephen's Episcopal society from ts first election to the day of his death. In 1854 he married Mary H. Foster, a niece of the late Richard Hawley, and she survives liim. The living children are Thomas H. Christian, deputy county Ierk, and Dr. Edmund A. Christian, uperintendent of the Eastern Michigan asylum for the insane.