- Zina Pitcher
Infobox Mayor
name = Zina Pitcher
caption =
order = 18th Mayor of Detroit
term_start = 1843
term_end = 1843
predecessor =Douglass Houghton
successor =John R. Williams
order2 = 16th Mayor of Detroit
term_start2 = 1840
term_end2 = 1841
predecessor2 =De Garmo Jones
successor2 =Douglass Houghton
birth_date =April 12 ,1797
birth_place =Sandy Hill, New York
death_date =April 5 ,1872
death_place =Detroit ,Michigan
constituency =
party =
alma_mater =Middlebury College
spouse =
profession =physician
religion =
footnotes =Zina Pitcher (
April 12 ,1797 ,Sandy Hill, New York –April 5 ,1872 ,Detroit ) was an Americanphysician ,politician ,educator , andacademic administrator . He was a president of theAmerican Medical Association , a two-timemayor ofDetroit and a member of the Board of Regents of theUniversity of Michigan .Biography
Early life
Zina Pitcher was born in
Sandy Hill, New York onApril 12 ,1797 . He was the younger brother ofNathaniel Pitcher , a futureGovernor ofNew York . He attendedMiddlebury College inVermont and graduated in medicine in 1822. He joined the Army that year as an assistantsurgeon , and was promoted to the rank ofmajor in 1836 as a full surgeon. He was president of theArmy Medical Board in 1835, and resigned from the Army at the end of 1836.harvnb|Wilson|Fiske|1888|p=31]He moved to Detroit, and was elected mayor for two separate terms, once from 1840-1841 and again in 1843. He was also a regent of the
University of Michigan from 1837 until 1852. He served as president of theAmerican Medical Association from 1856-1857, presiding over its annual meeting in Detroit.He died in Detroit on April 5, 1872 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. [harvnb|Franck|1996|p=42]
Commemoration
* The Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professorship of the History of Medicine at the
University of Michigan Medical School
* Zina Pitcher Place, a street in front of theUniversity of Michigan Medical Center Notes
References
* Citation
last = Franck
first = Michael S.
title = Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery
year = 1996
publisher = Wayne State University
publication-place = Detroit
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Q0KBYj8v_ZMC
isbn = 0814325912
* Citation
last = Wilson
first = James G.
last2 = Fiske
first2 = John
year = 1888
title = Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=lPPcZiJcLuUC&pg=PA31
pages = 31External links
*Find A Grave|id=6932030
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