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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 3071Bar Association, is a member of the Masonic Order and a Shriner, in politicsis a democrat, and belongs to the Baptist Church.On July 12, 1903, at Vienna he married Miss Kate Bostwick, a daughterof C. V. and Josephine Bostwick. Her parents were both born in the Stateof Michigan but are now living with their daughter, Mrs. Powell, in Vienna.To this marriage were born three children: Watts Jr., born' at Vienna in 1908and now in school; Victor, born at Vienna in 1912; and Kathlyn, born in 1914.HENRY M. MICHEL, M. D. Among the old and prominent families thathave been honorably identified with South Carolina and Georgia for generations, that of Michel has been particularly conspicuous in the field of medicalscience. To this family belongs Dr. Henry Middleton Michel, a leadingmedical practitioner of Augusta. He is of French extraction and the familyrecord leads back to colonial days in South Carolina, when Louis Michel, aFrench Protestant refugee accompanied others of his faith to what was thencalled the New World. He was evidently a man of parts and of pleasingmannerelse he would not have been accepted by Governor Middleton as ahusband for his daughter, Elizabeth, as was the case. Afterward he took anactive part in public affairs and died in South Carolina.Henry Middleton Michel was born in the City of Charleston, SouthCarolina, June 10, 1875, and is a son of William Middleton and Cecelia(Inglesby) Michel. The father of Doctor Michel was born in South Carolinaand was a son of William D. and Eugenia (Fraser) Michel, the latter of whomwas of distinguished Scotch ancestry. William D. Michel spent his life as aphysician at Charleston and his mantle fell upon his son, Williajn MiddletonMichel, who was also born at Charleston and died there in 1894 at the ageof seventy-two-years. During the war between the states he was one of themen recognized as being at the head of his profession and was made consultingsurgeon of the Confederate army and, associated with Doctors Gibson, ofVirginia, and Reed, of Georgia, had entire dharge of the Southern hospitals.For twenty years he was a member of the faculty of the University of SouthCarolina, was chief surgeon of the Charleston Hospital and was chairman ofthe board of health for a long period. He married Miss Cecelia Inglesby, whowasborn and reared in South Carolina, a daughter of William Inglesby, aprominent lawyer who, for many years, was corporation counsel for the Cityof Charleston. Mrs. Michel is now in her seventieth year and resides atAugusta, having come to Georgia in 1894.Henry Middleton Michel was the eldest born of his parents' family offour children. In boyhood he attended the Charleston schools and passedfrom the high school into the medical department of the University of Georgia,from which he was creditably graduated in 1896 and immediately enteredinto practice. In the following year he entered the New York Post Graduate-Hospital and has there taken subsequent courses and paid particular attentionto the diseases of children. During 1909 Dr. Michel attended the great medicalschools of Paris, gaining experience in the clinics that a lifetime of ordinarypractice might not have afforded. Dr. Michel enjoys high and deserved reputeinhis profession and commands respect as a man and citizen. He is chairman of the governing board of the city hospital and is a member of thefollowingmedical societies: the American, the Georgia State, the Richmond!County, the Southern Railway and the American College of Surgeons.Outside of his professional relations, Dr. Michel is identified with noorders.He takes only a good citizen's interest in politics, stimulated by theknowledgeand efficiency of a medical man, on some occasions, and has alwaysgivenhis political support to the candidates of the democratic party. He is;deeply, proudly and understandingly interested in the achievements of his;profession the world over and through private study and experiment, andassociation with other educated men of similar aim, keeps thoroughly informed!