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EDWIN S. ANTISDALE, B. S., M. D. This well-known physician and surgeon, residing at Benton Harbor, is a successful general practitioner and makes a specialty of diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, in the treatment of which he has won eminence and well-earned success. He is now in the prime of life, having been born on the 17th of May, 1861. The Antisdale family originated in Scotland, whence in an early day members of it emigrated to the United States and settled in New York. The grandfather of our subject, Perez Antisdale, was a native of the Empire State and there spent his entire life.

The father of our subject was born in Ontario County, N. Y., and there grew to manhood, receiving good educational advantages. He was an accomplished educator and held State life certificates from both New York and Michigan. In 1862 he removed to Michigan and settled in Branch County, where he engaged in farming most of the time. However, he was employed as Principal of the High School and County Superintendent. He married Miss Lucy M., daughter of Sylvester Southworth, a native of New York, and a descendant of a long line of worthy forefathers. His ancestors were English people and the family was represented among those who came to America in the “Mayflower.”

In the place of his birth, Manchester, Ontario County, N. Y., our subject passed the first year of his life. Thence he was brought by his parents to Michigan, residing for a time in Branch County and removing thence to St. Joseph County. He carried on his studies at the Union School of Centreville and later spent one year at the Hudson River Institute, located at Claverack, N. Y. From that school he came to Michigan, and for four years he was a student in the Agricultural College at Lansing. During his spare moments, he was employed in reading medicine, for he had determined upon following the medical profession. In 1885 he was graduated from the Agricultural College with the degree of Bachelor of Science.

At the close of his collegiate course, Dr. Antisdale entered the medical department of the State University at Ann Arbor and was graduated from that institution in 1890. Immediately afterward he commenced the practice of his profession at Berrien Centre, where he remained one year. From that place he removed to Berrien Springs and conducted an extensive practice there until in January, 1893, when, realizing that he should seek a broader field for practice, he came to Benton Harbor and has since made this city his home. Although he has removed from Berrien Springs, his patients there have been so loth to resign his services that he has decided to devote one or two days of every week to his practice in that village. He is identified with the Kalamazoo Academy of Medicine and keeps abreast with every advancement in therapeutics.

The marriage of the Doctor, June 21, 1888, united him with Miss Helen R., daughter of J. H. Gardner, a resident of St. Joseph County, Mich. Mrs. Antisdale was endowed with high capabilities and withal possessed a wonderful wealth of good common-sense. She possessed a keen sense of justice, with courage at all times to defend it, and a natural refinement of manners that was noticeable at all times. She was a graduate of the State Normal at Ypsilanti, and subsequently graduated from Ingham University at LeRoy, N. Y., in which latter college she for four years filled the chair of Professor of Mathematics. Her death in 1891 was a source of most sincere sorrow to her acquaintances, but fell most heavily upon the bereaved husband and daughter Helen. Dr. Antisdale takes a commendable interest in all public matters and is a stalwart Republican in his political belief. He holds fraternal relations with Lake Shore Lodge No. 298, A. F. & A. M., and is also a member of the chapter and commandery at Niles.