Dr.  Kessler  was  married  in  November,  1870,  to  Mary  E.  Huylar  of
Three  Rivers,  Mich.  They  are  the  parents  of  three  children:  Allen
D.,  D.  D.  S.,  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Michigan  (class  of  1894),
now  associated  with  his  father  in  his  practice;  William  H.,  jr.,  at  pres-
ent in  the  employ  of  Wright,  Kay  &  Co.,  jewelers  of  Detroit,  and  J.
Horton,  a  student  in  Detroit  High  School.
STEPHEN  H.   KNIGHT.
Stephen  Herrick  Knight,  M.  D.,  son  of  Edward  Hale  and  Mary
Meek  (Russell)  Knight,  was  born  in  Salem,  Mass.,  October  31,  18G2.
Dr.  Knight  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  at  Salem,
and  later  entered  Harvard  University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in
1883.  Deciding  upon  a  course  of  medicine,  he  removed  to  New  York
city,  where  he  entered  the  New  York  Homeopathic  College  and  Free
Hospital,  and  was  graduated  therefrom  in  188G.  In  addition  to  this  he
studied  for  six  months  in  the  Hahnemann  Hospital  at  New  York,  and
then  assumed  charge  of  the  private  surgical  hospital  of  Dr.  William
Tod  Helmuth.      Upon  the  establishment  of  Grace  Hospital  at  Detroit,

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Mich.,  in  1889,  Dr.  Knight  was  offered  and  accepted  the  position  of
house  surgeon  in  that  institution,  remaining  in  that  capacity  until  1890.
Subsequently  he  established  a  personal  practice,  although  remaining  a
member  of  the  visiting  staff  of  surgeons  of  Grace  Hospital.  In  1896
the  Detroit  College  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  A.  M.
