A. B. CONKLIN, physician and surgeon, was born in Sharon, Washtenaw County, Mich., Sept. 16, 1857. At the age of fourteen he removed to Manchester, to secure the educational advantages of the Union School. His father, Dr. A. Conklin, has been in medical practice there since 1847, and with very remunerative results. Dr. A. B., the son, graduated at the Manchester High School in 1877. He spent the next winter in teaching, and shortly after began the study of medicine. He took one course of lectures in the Bennett Medical College, Chicago. His next course was taken at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated there in the spring of 1880. He then spent two years in medical practice with his father, and then a short time at Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, in practice with Dr. Williams. In April, 1882, he removed to Elk Rapids, Antrim County, and at once commenced practice there. He has a commodious office on River Street, and is enjoying a steadily enlarging patronage, his practice the second year being more than double that of the first. The doctor makes the treatment of cancer a specialty.

 In July, 1883, he was married to Miss Anne E. Mills, of Adrian, Mich. She was born there March 16, 1859. They have a pleasant residence at the head of River Street, facing the Grand Traverse Bay. In Washtenaw County the doctor was one of the board of school inspectors, and also city clerk. The doctor's only brother is a physician also, in practice at Tecumseh, Mich. His grandfather, Dr. E. H. Conklin, came from Amenia, N.
Y., as a pioneer to Washtenaw County in 1836, and practiced medicine there until his death in 1848.