The Biographical Dictionary of America/Avery, John

AVERY, John, representative, was born in Watertown, N.Y., Feb. 29, 1824. He removed to Michigan in 1836; was graduated at the Medical college, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850, and engaged in practice at Greenville, Mich. He was surgeon of the 21st Michigan infantry and served with the Army of the Cumberland, 1861-'65; was a member of the state legislature, 1869-70; a member of the state board of health in 1880 and 1886, and its president in 1889, and was appointed U.S. pension examiner in 1879. He was a member of the Stanton board of U.S. examiners in 1889, and was elected a Republican representative from the 11th Michigan district in 1893-’97.