Robert M. Luton, M.D., a homeopathic physician and surgeon of great repute at Grand Rapids, Mich., with his office in room No. 6, Gilbert building, was born in St. Thomas, in the province of Ontario, dominion of Canada, August 31, 1850, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Crane) Luton, both natives of the same province, but of whom the father, all his life a thriving farmer near St. Thomas, died in 1896. The family, besides the parents, was comprised of five sons and three daughters, of whom six of the children are still living, besides the mother.

Dr. Luton received a collegiate education in his native city, and was professionally educated at Trinity college and the university of Toronto. His early medical studies were along the line of allopathy, or the "regular" school of medicine, particularly during his sojourn in Toronto, and about the year 1872 he located in Newaygo, Mich., where he practiced until his graduation from Hahnemann Homeopathic college at Chicago, in 1873, he having, of course, been under training in the latter institution for the prescribed course necessary for an advanced student, and already in practice. For two years he practiced in Newaygo as a homeopathist, and then (1875) came to Grand Rapids, and here he has made his home ever since, with the exception of four years—from 1882 to 1886—when he was a member of board of trade in Chicago.

Dr. Luton is a member of the State Homepathic Medical society of Michigan, to which he has contributed many valuable papers on homeopathy. In 1874 he was made a Mason, and in this fraternity he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is an active member of Royal Arch chapter, No. 7, De Molai commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, and is of course, a member of the Mystic shrine. In politics the doctor is a democrat, and has served the city of Grand Rapids as heath officer since May, 1898.

In 1877 Dr. Luton was joined in matrimony, near St. Thomas, Canada, with Miss Alma Cline, a native of Ontario and a most amiable lady, and possessed of many accom-plishments, having been educated at St. Thomas. The doctor and wife are members of the Christian church, their social standing is with the best class of citizens in Grand Rapids, and professionally the doctor is unrivaled—but they have no children to perpetuate their honored name.