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Portrait and biographical record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative
citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state and
of the presidents of the United States.
Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1892


Page 195

         MYRON A. TIBBITS, M.D., is one of the leading physicians of
      Genesee County, who makes his home at Linden.  He is a native
      of Middlesex County, Ontario, and was born February 5, 1850.
      His father, NELSON TIBBITS, was a Vermonter by birth and a far-
      mer by occupation, although he pursued blacksmithing during the
      early part of his life.  He died in 1883, and was a prominent
      and well-known man, a zealous Christian and Class-leader and
      Superintendent of the Sunday-school in the Methodist Episcopal
      Church.  He was a strong advocate of temperance and made many
      an eloquent plea in favor of that cause.  The ancestors of our
      subject were from England and migrated to America during Revo-
      lutionary times.  His mother, DELANA M. ALLEN, a native of Ver-
      mont and a daughter of Vermonters, is still living and the 
      mother of ten children, all of whom are still in this life.
         Dr. TIBBITS, the eldest child of his parents, was reared
      upon a farm and received his elementary education in the dis-
      trict schools.  At sixteen he entered London College in Canada
      and completed a commercial course, and at eighteen he began
      reading medicine with Dr. A. E. FORD, a noted physician and
      surgeon at St. Mary's, Ontario, supplementing this study with
      a special course in the Kentucky school of medicine at Louis-
      ville and a similar course in the College of Medicine of the
      same city, an institution of excellent repute.
         Upon his return to St. Mary's the young doctor resumed his
      studies and at the same time took up his medical practice, and
      in 1875 spent a year in the Medical Department of the Michigan
      University and the following year entered Rush Medical College
      of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1877.  In the fall of
      that year he located for a few months at Osco, Henry County, 
      Ill., and after that at Pinconning, Bay County, Mich., a place
      which at that time was the center of a large lumber trade in
      pine and was full of lumbermen who were constantly meeting with
      accidents, and among them Dr. TIBBITS enjoyed a wonderful 
      practice especially in surgery.
         After five years spent in the lumber district Dr. TIBBITS
      removed in January, 1883, to Linden where he enjoys a large
      practice and the full confidence of the people generally.  He
      was married June 5, 1881, to Miss VIOLA MOON, a native of New
      York and a daughter of the Rev. ORRIN J. MOON, a Vermonter by
      birth and a minister in the Free Will Baptist Church.  This
      minister has won an excellent reputation as a powerful preacher
      and a conductor of revival services.  He has filled the pulpit
      since he was sixteen years old and has preached in several
      different States, and also in Canada, and is now engaged in
      ministerial work in Pennsylvania.  The mother of Mrs. TIBBITS
      bore the maiden name of LEVINA M. GROVES and was a New Yorker
      by birth.  She had two children, both of whom are living.
         The Doctor is a Republican in his political views and while
      at Pinconning took quite an active part in local politics and
      held the offices of Town Clerk, Health Officer and physician
      for the poor.  He is identified with both the Masonic order 
      and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is prominently
      identified with the State Medical Society.

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