Pitcher, Zina

4/14/1791

Fort Edwards, New York

President of Board of Education, 1843
President of Michigan State Medical Society, 1855-1856
President American Medical Association, 1856
Examiner of the Mint, 1859
Streets in Ann Arbor and Detroit are named for him.

District school and county academy. Castleton School of Medicine in Vermont. (1817)
Middlebury College (M.D. in 1822).

56.103.9 Oil painting of --missing
64.2.2 Case of surgical instruments owned by - Disp 8/70
62.318.1 Plaster bust of Zina Pitcher - Damaged Beyond Repair

provided material for book, "A Flora of North America"

Physician. Appointed Ass't. Surgeon in U.S. Army by Pres. Jackson, (10-12 years)
Mayor of Detroit, 1840-41; 1843;
President of the Board of Education, 1843.
1844 Whig candidate for Governor; was defeated
1845 county Physician - 1847- City Physician
1855-56 - President of Michigan State Medical Soc. and American Medical Association
1856-70 - member of the Board of Health
One of founders of Detroit Public School System
Founder of the UM School of Medicine. (American Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of Michigan. Cincinnati, Ohio 1878. Dist. 1 p.112).
See also - Historic Citizen file - Urban History office
Incorporator of Michigan Historical Society
Founder of St. Paul Church

Ref: Farmer, p. 1036, Vol. II

Nathaniel Pitcher

Margaret Stevenson

1) Ann Eliza Sheldon, 2) Emily Bachus, 3) Eliza T. Strong

1) by Anna
Nathaniel Pitcher (b. 1832)
Rosa (b. 1835)

2) by Emily
Sidney Rochester (b. 1868

3) by Eliza
Zina (b. 1861)
Sheldon (b. 1862)
Emily Strong (b. 1865)

American