Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Judith Anne Weeks Ancell for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Portrait And Biographical Album Of Mecosta County, Mich. Containing Portraits And Biographical Sketches of Prominent And Representative Citizens of the County together with Portraits And Biographies of All The Presidents Of The United States And Governors of the State. Also Containing A Complete History of The County, From Its Earliest Settlement To the Present Time. Chicago, Chapman Bros. 1883 =========================================================================== ROMIG, EDWARD A. =========================================================================== Page 259: Edward A. Romig, M. D., of the firm of Woolley & Romig, Big Rapids, was born in Bristol, Elkhart Co., Ind., Sept. 23, 1852. His father Adam Romig, was a merchant and died in 1860. His mother, Falvilla L. (Adams) Romig is yet living, at Moberly, Mo. Dr. Romig was a student at school until he was 14 years old, after which he spent two years as a farm assistant. He passed the next four years as a teacher, and commenced to read for his profession in the office of Dr. C. Earl, of Pontiac, Oakland Co., Mich. After a year of study he went to Ann Arbor and became a private student under Prof. A. B. Palmer, completing his preparation by three terms in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in March, 1877. He entered at once upon his practice at Clarkston, Oakland Co., and established a lucrative and popular business. He stayed there nearly four and a half years, and in the fall of 1881, came to this city and opened an office at upper Big Rapids. Four months later he formed his present business relation with Dr. D. F. Woolley, a fortunate association, the firm occupying first rank as medical practitioners. Dr. Romig’s specialties are surgery and diseases of the eye and ear. He is a member of the Union Medical Society of Northern Michigan. Dr. Romig was married at Pontiac, Mich., October 1, 1879, to Mary W., daughter of John P. and Mary A/ Wyckoff. They have had two children, Maude and Ethel. The former is deceased; the latter was born Feb. 26, 1883. ===========================================================================