Isaiah J. Whitfield, M. D., for the past 10 years practicing physician at Grand Rapids, is a native of Hamilton, Canada, and was born Feb. 23, 1835; he is a son of Frederick J. and Susanna (Churchill) Whitfield, the former born in England and the latter in Nova Scotia. Frederick J. Whitfield was a minister of the "Christian Church" and came to Vergennes Twp., this county, in 1847, bringing his wife and family of six sons; here he remained some six months, when the family moved to the town of Keene, Ionia County, where he bought a farm which, with the assistance of his sons, was he cleared. A daughter was born to them in Kent County, and the seventh son was born in Ionia County.
From 1847 until 1862 he was widely known throughout Ionia county and the northeastern part of Kent; he is still well remembered by the residents of these localities as a preacher of rare eloquence. As a Bible scholar he is rarely surpassed. His faith in the Christian religion was unbounded, and the business of his life was to preach the gospel pure and simple, without money and without price. He was called by those who had listened to his eloquent preaching one of Nature's greatest orators, who at will, through the magnetic influence of his voice, moved whole audiences to tears. While still in harness, and discharging his ministerial duties in Canada, he was taken sick and died, Oct. 22, 1865. His wife had preceded him by some three years, departing this life in Ionia County, in July 1862.
The subject of this sketch passed his minority on his father's farm, in the meantime receiving such advantages for an education as were afforded by the district schools. At the age of 21 he made an extended tour of the Western country as far as the Rocky Mountains. On his return to Michigan in 1860 he was married in Ionia County, to Miss Kate Knapp. Soon afterward he was moved to Fremont Co., Iowa, where he began reading medicine in the office of R. R. Hanley, M.D.
In July 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 4th Iowa Vol. Inf., to serve in the Union army during the war of the Rebellion and in consequence was obliged to leave his wife and a babe three months old among comparative strangers. This was a great trial, but his duty to his country beckoned him on, and when next he met the loved ones the babe was a prattling child of nearly three years, and lisping the name "Papa." Soon after his enlistment, the regiment was ordered to Missouri, and was in camp at Rolla until February 1862, when they took part under Gen. Curtiss in driving the rebel army under Gen. Price out of Springfield, Mo., and beyond "Cross Hollows," Arkansas. Soon afterward occurred the battle of "Pea Ridge," at which memorable battle the Doctor participated; his comrades on either side were shot down, although he escaped injury. During this engagement he was continually in the fight, and discharged many rounds of ammunition at the enemy, estimated to be in weight three pounds of lead. Half of his company was killed or wounded. After this battle he received the appointment of Orderly Sergeant of his company, and on the arrival of his regiment at Helena, Ark., at the solicitation of the surgeon, he was appointed "Hospital Steward," discharging the duties of that office for two years and a half. This position kept him always at the front and in constant service. The doctor was with his regiment in 35 different engagements, beginning in Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending in Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending at Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of four years and one month. Among the most notable in which he participated was that of Chickasaw Bayou, near Vicksburg; Arkansas Post, where 7,000 rebels were taken prisoner; the Vicksburg campaign until its surrender; battle of Lookout Mountain. The first night after this battle commenced, there was but one other surgeon besides the Doctor to attend to the wounded, who comprised men from 16 different regiments.
In 1864, he, with his entire regiment, re-enlisted as veterans, and after a short visit home on furlough he again entered active service, participating in the Atlanta campaign, and was with Gen. Sherman's army in its famous "march to the sea." On the arrival of the regiment at Savannah, Ga., the Doctor received his commission as Assistant Surgeon, but had discharged the duties of that office for the two preceding years. From Savannah the regiment marched to Beaufort and Columbia, S.C., and thence to Bentonville, N.C. where it took part in the last battle of the war. The regiment paraded in the grand review of the Union army held in Washington in 1865; was then ordered to Louisville, Ky., and two months afterward to Davenport, Iowa, where it was mustered out of the service Aug. 24, 1865.
The war having ended, he returned to his family at Lowell, Mich. It may be mentioned that five brothers of Dr. W. served as soldiers in the Union army, two being severely wounded in the seven days' fight before Richmond; subsequently one Thos. N., died at Annapolis, Maryland, while still in the service. During the whole period of the Doctor's service he lost but three days' time from service, and it was computed that his regiment during service traveled 8,000 miles.
On his return home he resumed the study of his chosen profession and in the winter of 1865-'6 he attended a course of medical lectures at Ann Arbor. In the spring of 1866 he moved to Big Rapids, and engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1869 he attended lectures at the Homeopathic Medical College at Cleveland, O., where graduated in the spring of 1870, and in November 1871, he located permanently at Grand Rapids, where he has built up a fine practice and has won an enviable reputation as a thorough, competent, and successful physician. The doctor is distinctly a homeopathist, liberal in his views, and tolerant of other schools. He is a member of the Grand Rapids and Kent County Homeopathic Medical Societies, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy, one of the oldest medical societies in existence in this country.
Dr. Whitfield has four children living, three daughters and one son. He has three brothers that are physicians, one living in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the second in Dakota and the third in New York.
Isaiah J. Whitfield, M. D., was born in Upper Canada, Feb. 23, 1835. Taking up his residence in the States some years before the War of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Iowa Volunteers, was promoted successively to Orderly Sergeant and Hospital Steward, and later became Assistant Surgeon. He served in all four years and seven months. His experience in the army hospitals developed in him an interest in medicine, and after a few months preparatory study he entered the Medical Department at Ann Arbor and attended the lectures of one year. After several years practice in one of the new towns of Northern Michigan, he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, graduating in 1870. He then settled in Big Rapids, Mich., remaining there two years, after which he removed to Grand Rapids, where he has acquired a large and lucrative practice. In the last few years, owing to over-work, he has to some extent been withdrawing from general practice, to engage in the specialty of orificial surgery, to which he has devoted considerable attention, taking two or three post graduate courses of lectures in Chicago. With all his activity in professional life, he has found time to be an energetic religious worker, and has been the Senior Elder in the Church of Christ since its organization in this city in 1874. He has always been prominently interested in the social and moral questions of the day, being especially zealous in the prohibitory movement, the convention of that party twice making him its candidate for Mayor of Grand Rapids.Isaiah Whitfield served on the staff of the 4th Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.He left service in 1865 as Assistant Surgeon of the regiment.After the war he practiced medicine in Big Rapids and then Grand Rapids,Michigan.
From 1847 until 1862 he was widely known throughout Ionia county and the northeastern part of Kent; he is still well remembered by the residents of these localities as a preacher of rare eloquence. As a Bible scholar he is rarely surpassed. His faith in the Christian religion was unbounded, and the business of his life was to preach the gospel pure and simple, without money and without price. He was called by those who had listened to his eloquent preaching one of Nature's greatest orators, who at will, through the magnetic influence of his voice, moved whole audiences to tears. While still in harness, and discharging his ministerial duties in Canada, he was taken sick and died, Oct. 22, 1865. His wife had preceded him by some three years, departing this life in Ionia County, in July 1862.
The subject of this sketch passed his minority on his father's farm, in the meantime receiving such advantages for an education as were afforded by the district schools. At the age of 21 he made an extended tour of the Western country as far as the Rocky Mountains. On his return to Michigan in 1860 he was married in Ionia County, to Miss Kate Knapp. Soon afterward he was moved to Fremont Co., Iowa, where he began reading medicine in the office of R. R. Hanley, M.D.
In July 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 4th Iowa Vol. Inf., to serve in the Union army during the war of the Rebellion and in consequence was obliged to leave his wife and a babe three months old among comparative strangers. This was a great trial, but his duty to his country beckoned him on, and when next he met the loved ones the babe was a prattling child of nearly three years, and lisping the name "Papa." Soon after his enlistment, the regiment was ordered to Missouri, and was in camp at Rolla until February 1862, when they took part under Gen. Curtiss in driving the rebel army under Gen. Price out of Springfield, Mo., and beyond "Cross Hollows," Arkansas. Soon afterward occurred the battle of "Pea Ridge," at which memorable battle the Doctor participated; his comrades on either side were shot down, although he escaped injury. During this engagement he was continually in the fight, and discharged many rounds of ammunition at the enemy, estimated to be in weight three pounds of lead. Half of his company was killed or wounded. After this battle he received the appointment of Orderly Sergeant of his company, and on the arrival of his regiment at Helena, Ark., at the solicitation of the surgeon, he was appointed "Hospital Steward," discharging the duties of that office for two years and a half. This position kept him always at the front and in constant service. The doctor was with his regiment in 35 different engagements, beginning in Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending in Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending at Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of four years and one month. Among the most notable in which he participated was that of Chickasaw Bayou, near Vicksburg; Arkansas Post, where 7,000 rebels were taken prisoner; the Vicksburg campaign until its surrender; battle of Lookout Mountain. The first night after this battle commenced, there was but one other surgeon besides the Doctor to attend to the wounded, who comprised men from 16 different regiments.
In 1864, he, with his entire regiment, re-enlisted as veterans, and after a short visit home on furlough he again entered active service, participating in the Atlanta campaign, and was with Gen. Sherman's army in its famous "march to the sea." On the arrival of the regiment at Savannah, Ga., the Doctor received his commission as Assistant Surgeon, but had discharged the duties of that office for the two preceding years. From Savannah the regiment marched to Beaufort and Columbia, S.C., and thence to Bentonville, N.C. where it took part in the last battle of the war. The regiment paraded in the grand review of the Union army held in Washington in 1865; was then ordered to Louisville, Ky., and two months afterward to Davenport, Iowa, where it was mustered out of the service Aug. 24, 1865.
The war having ended, he returned to his family at Lowell, Mich. It may be mentioned that five brothers of Dr. W. served as soldiers in the Union army, two being severely wounded in the seven days' fight before Richmond; subsequently one Thos. N., died at Annapolis, Maryland, while still in the service. During the whole period of the Doctor's service he lost but three days' time from service, and it was computed that his regiment during service traveled 8,000 miles.
On his return home he resumed the study of his chosen profession and in the winter of 1865-'6 he attended a course of medical lectures at Ann Arbor. In the spring of 1866 he moved to Big Rapids, and engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1869 he attended lectures at the Homeopathic Medical College at Cleveland, O., where graduated in the spring of 1870, and in November 1871, he located permanently at Grand Rapids, where he has built up a fine practice and has won an enviable reputation as a thorough, competent, and successful physician. The doctor is distinctly a homeopathist, liberal in his views, and tolerant of other schools. He is a member of the Grand Rapids and Kent County Homeopathic Medical Societies, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy, one of the oldest medical societies in existence in this country.
Dr. Whitfield has four children living, three daughters and one son. He has three brothers that are physicians, one living in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the second in Dakota and the third in New York.
Isaiah J. Whitfield, M. D., was born in Upper Canada, Feb. 23, 1835. Taking up his residence in the States some years before the War of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Iowa Volunteers, was promoted successively to Orderly Sergeant and Hospital Steward, and later became Assistant Surgeon. He served in all four years and seven months. His experience in the army hospitals developed in him an interest in medicine, and after a few months preparatory study he entered the Medical Department at Ann Arbor and attended the lectures of one year. After several years practice in one of the new towns of Northern Michigan, he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, graduating in 1870. He then settled in Big Rapids, Mich., remaining there two years, after which he removed to Grand Rapids, where he has acquired a large and lucrative practice. In the last few years, owing to over-work, he has to some extent been withdrawing from general practice, to engage in the specialty of orificial surgery, to which he has devoted considerable attention, taking two or three post graduate courses of lectures in Chicago. With all his activity in professional life, he has found time to be an energetic religious worker, and has been the Senior Elder in the Church of Christ since its organization in this city in 1874. He has always been prominently interested in the social and moral questions of the day, being especially zealous in the prohibitory movement, the convention of that party twice making him its candidate for Mayor of Grand Rapids.Isaiah Whitfield served on the staff of the 4th Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.He left service in 1865 as Assistant Surgeon of the regiment.After the war he practiced medicine in Big Rapids and then Grand Rapids,Michigan.
Isaiah J. Whitfield, M. D., for the past 10 years practicing physician at Grand Rapids, is a native of Hamilton, Canada, and was born Feb. 23, 1835; he is a son of Frederick J. and Susanna (Churchill) Whitfield, the former born in England and the latter in Nova Scotia. Frederick J. Whitfield was a minister of the "Christian Church" and came to Vergennes Twp., this county, in 1847, bringing his wife and family of six sons; here he remained some six months, when the family moved to the town of Keene, Ionia County, where he bought a farm which, with the assistance of his sons, was he cleared. A daughter was born to them in Kent County, and the seventh son was born in Ionia County.
From 1847 until 1862 he was widely known throughout Ionia county and the northeastern part of Kent; he is still well remembered by the residents of these localities as a preacher of rare eloquence. As a Bible scholar he is rarely surpassed. His faith in the Christian religion was unbounded, and the business of his life was to preach the gospel pure and simple, without money and without price. He was called by those who had listened to his eloquent preaching one of Nature's greatest orators, who at will, through the magnetic influence of his voice, moved whole audiences to tears. While still in harness, and discharging his ministerial duties in Canada, he was taken sick and died, Oct. 22, 1865. His wife had preceded him by some three years, departing this life in Ionia County, in July 1862.
The subject of this sketch passed his minority on his father's farm, in the meantime receiving such advantages for an education as were afforded by the district schools. At the age of 21 he made an extended tour of the Western country as far as the Rocky Mountains. On his return to Michigan in 1860 he was married in Ionia County, to Miss Kate Knapp. Soon afterward he was moved to Fremont Co., Iowa, where he began reading medicine in the office of R. R. Hanley, M.D.
In July 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 4th Iowa Vol. Inf., to serve in the Union army during the war of the Rebellion and in consequence was obliged to leave his wife and a babe three months old among comparative strangers. This was a great trial, but his duty to his country beckoned him on, and when next he met the loved ones the babe was a prattling child of nearly three years, and lisping the name "Papa." Soon after his enlistment, the regiment was ordered to Missouri, and was in camp at Rolla until February 1862, when they took part under Gen. Curtiss in driving the rebel army under Gen. Price out of Springfield, Mo., and beyond "Cross Hollows," Arkansas. Soon afterward occurred the battle of "Pea Ridge," at which memorable battle the Doctor participated; his comrades on either side were shot down, although he escaped injury. During this engagement he was continually in the fight, and discharged many rounds of ammunition at the enemy, estimated to be in weight three pounds of lead. Half of his company was killed or wounded. After this battle he received the appointment of Orderly Sergeant of his company, and on the arrival of his regiment at Helena, Ark., at the solicitation of the surgeon, he was appointed "Hospital Steward," discharging the duties of that office for two years and a half. This position kept him always at the front and in constant service. The doctor was with his regiment in 35 different engagements, beginning in Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending in Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending at Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of four years and one month. Among the most notable in which he participated was that of Chickasaw Bayou, near Vicksburg; Arkansas Post, where 7,000 rebels were taken prisoner; the Vicksburg campaign until its surrender; battle of Lookout Mountain. The first night after this battle commenced, there was but one other surgeon besides the Doctor to attend to the wounded, who comprised men from 16 different regiments.
In 1864, he, with his entire regiment, re-enlisted as veterans, and after a short visit home on furlough he again entered active service, participating in the Atlanta campaign, and was with Gen. Sherman's army in its famous "march to the sea." On the arrival of the regiment at Savannah, Ga., the Doctor received his commission as Assistant Surgeon, but had discharged the duties of that office for the two preceding years. From Savannah the regiment marched to Beaufort and Columbia, S.C., and thence to Bentonville, N.C. where it took part in the last battle of the war. The regiment paraded in the grand review of the Union army held in Washington in 1865; was then ordered to Louisville, Ky., and two months afterward to Davenport, Iowa, where it was mustered out of the service Aug. 24, 1865.
The war having ended, he returned to his family at Lowell, Mich. It may be mentioned that five brothers of Dr. W. served as soldiers in the Union army, two being severely wounded in the seven days' fight before Richmond; subsequently one Thos. N., died at Annapolis, Maryland, while still in the service. During the whole period of the Doctor's service he lost but three days' time from service, and it was computed that his regiment during service traveled 8,000 miles.
On his return home he resumed the study of his chosen profession and in the winter of 1865-'6 he attended a course of medical lectures at Ann Arbor. In the spring of 1866 he moved to Big Rapids, and engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1869 he attended lectures at the Homeopathic Medical College at Cleveland, O., where graduated in the spring of 1870, and in November 1871, he located permanently at Grand Rapids, where he has built up a fine practice and has won an enviable reputation as a thorough, competent, and successful physician. The doctor is distinctly a homeopathist, liberal in his views, and tolerant of other schools. He is a member of the Grand Rapids and Kent County Homeopathic Medical Societies, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy, one of the oldest medical societies in existence in this country.
Dr. Whitfield has four children living, three daughters and one son. He has three brothers that are physicians, one living in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the second in Dakota and the third in New York.
Isaiah J. Whitfield, M. D., was born in Upper Canada, Feb. 23, 1835. Taking up his residence in the States some years before the War of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Iowa Volunteers, was promoted successively to Orderly Sergeant and Hospital Steward, and later became Assistant Surgeon. He served in all four years and seven months. His experience in the army hospitals developed in him an interest in medicine, and after a few months preparatory study he entered the Medical Department at Ann Arbor and attended the lectures of one year. After several years practice in one of the new towns of Northern Michigan, he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, graduating in 1870. He then settled in Big Rapids, Mich., remaining there two years, after which he removed to Grand Rapids, where he has acquired a large and lucrative practice. In the last few years, owing to over-work, he has to some extent been withdrawing from general practice, to engage in the specialty of orificial surgery, to which he has devoted considerable attention, taking two or three post graduate courses of lectures in Chicago. With all his activity in professional life, he has found time to be an energetic religious worker, and has been the Senior Elder in the Church of Christ since its organization in this city in 1874. He has always been prominently interested in the social and moral questions of the day, being especially zealous in the prohibitory movement, the convention of that party twice making him its candidate for Mayor of Grand Rapids.Isaiah Whitfield served on the staff of the 4th Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.He left service in 1865 as Assistant Surgeon of the regiment.After the war he practiced medicine in Big Rapids and then Grand Rapids,Michigan.
From 1847 until 1862 he was widely known throughout Ionia county and the northeastern part of Kent; he is still well remembered by the residents of these localities as a preacher of rare eloquence. As a Bible scholar he is rarely surpassed. His faith in the Christian religion was unbounded, and the business of his life was to preach the gospel pure and simple, without money and without price. He was called by those who had listened to his eloquent preaching one of Nature's greatest orators, who at will, through the magnetic influence of his voice, moved whole audiences to tears. While still in harness, and discharging his ministerial duties in Canada, he was taken sick and died, Oct. 22, 1865. His wife had preceded him by some three years, departing this life in Ionia County, in July 1862.
The subject of this sketch passed his minority on his father's farm, in the meantime receiving such advantages for an education as were afforded by the district schools. At the age of 21 he made an extended tour of the Western country as far as the Rocky Mountains. On his return to Michigan in 1860 he was married in Ionia County, to Miss Kate Knapp. Soon afterward he was moved to Fremont Co., Iowa, where he began reading medicine in the office of R. R. Hanley, M.D.
In July 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 4th Iowa Vol. Inf., to serve in the Union army during the war of the Rebellion and in consequence was obliged to leave his wife and a babe three months old among comparative strangers. This was a great trial, but his duty to his country beckoned him on, and when next he met the loved ones the babe was a prattling child of nearly three years, and lisping the name "Papa." Soon after his enlistment, the regiment was ordered to Missouri, and was in camp at Rolla until February 1862, when they took part under Gen. Curtiss in driving the rebel army under Gen. Price out of Springfield, Mo., and beyond "Cross Hollows," Arkansas. Soon afterward occurred the battle of "Pea Ridge," at which memorable battle the Doctor participated; his comrades on either side were shot down, although he escaped injury. During this engagement he was continually in the fight, and discharged many rounds of ammunition at the enemy, estimated to be in weight three pounds of lead. Half of his company was killed or wounded. After this battle he received the appointment of Orderly Sergeant of his company, and on the arrival of his regiment at Helena, Ark., at the solicitation of the surgeon, he was appointed "Hospital Steward," discharging the duties of that office for two years and a half. This position kept him always at the front and in constant service. The doctor was with his regiment in 35 different engagements, beginning in Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending in Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of Sugar Creek, Mo., and ending at Bentonville, N.C., covering a period of four years and one month. Among the most notable in which he participated was that of Chickasaw Bayou, near Vicksburg; Arkansas Post, where 7,000 rebels were taken prisoner; the Vicksburg campaign until its surrender; battle of Lookout Mountain. The first night after this battle commenced, there was but one other surgeon besides the Doctor to attend to the wounded, who comprised men from 16 different regiments.
In 1864, he, with his entire regiment, re-enlisted as veterans, and after a short visit home on furlough he again entered active service, participating in the Atlanta campaign, and was with Gen. Sherman's army in its famous "march to the sea." On the arrival of the regiment at Savannah, Ga., the Doctor received his commission as Assistant Surgeon, but had discharged the duties of that office for the two preceding years. From Savannah the regiment marched to Beaufort and Columbia, S.C., and thence to Bentonville, N.C. where it took part in the last battle of the war. The regiment paraded in the grand review of the Union army held in Washington in 1865; was then ordered to Louisville, Ky., and two months afterward to Davenport, Iowa, where it was mustered out of the service Aug. 24, 1865.
The war having ended, he returned to his family at Lowell, Mich. It may be mentioned that five brothers of Dr. W. served as soldiers in the Union army, two being severely wounded in the seven days' fight before Richmond; subsequently one Thos. N., died at Annapolis, Maryland, while still in the service. During the whole period of the Doctor's service he lost but three days' time from service, and it was computed that his regiment during service traveled 8,000 miles.
On his return home he resumed the study of his chosen profession and in the winter of 1865-'6 he attended a course of medical lectures at Ann Arbor. In the spring of 1866 he moved to Big Rapids, and engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1869 he attended lectures at the Homeopathic Medical College at Cleveland, O., where graduated in the spring of 1870, and in November 1871, he located permanently at Grand Rapids, where he has built up a fine practice and has won an enviable reputation as a thorough, competent, and successful physician. The doctor is distinctly a homeopathist, liberal in his views, and tolerant of other schools. He is a member of the Grand Rapids and Kent County Homeopathic Medical Societies, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy, one of the oldest medical societies in existence in this country.
Dr. Whitfield has four children living, three daughters and one son. He has three brothers that are physicians, one living in Grand Rapids, Mich.; the second in Dakota and the third in New York.
Isaiah J. Whitfield, M. D., was born in Upper Canada, Feb. 23, 1835. Taking up his residence in the States some years before the War of the Rebellion, he enlisted as a private in the Fourth Iowa Volunteers, was promoted successively to Orderly Sergeant and Hospital Steward, and later became Assistant Surgeon. He served in all four years and seven months. His experience in the army hospitals developed in him an interest in medicine, and after a few months preparatory study he entered the Medical Department at Ann Arbor and attended the lectures of one year. After several years practice in one of the new towns of Northern Michigan, he entered the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, graduating in 1870. He then settled in Big Rapids, Mich., remaining there two years, after which he removed to Grand Rapids, where he has acquired a large and lucrative practice. In the last few years, owing to over-work, he has to some extent been withdrawing from general practice, to engage in the specialty of orificial surgery, to which he has devoted considerable attention, taking two or three post graduate courses of lectures in Chicago. With all his activity in professional life, he has found time to be an energetic religious worker, and has been the Senior Elder in the Church of Christ since its organization in this city in 1874. He has always been prominently interested in the social and moral questions of the day, being especially zealous in the prohibitory movement, the convention of that party twice making him its candidate for Mayor of Grand Rapids.Isaiah Whitfield served on the staff of the 4th Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.He left service in 1865 as Assistant Surgeon of the regiment.After the war he practiced medicine in Big Rapids and then Grand Rapids,Michigan.
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