Samuel Denton

Samuel Denton (July 2, 1803 – August 17, 1860) was an American physician and politician.

Samuel Denton; portrait by Alvah Bradish (1852)

Career

Denton was born in Wallkill, New York on July 2, 1803, graduated from Castleton Medical College in Vermont in 1825, and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan shortly afterwards. He served a three-year term on the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan beginning in 1837, and represented Washtenaw County in the Michigan State Senate from 1845 to 1848, serving as President pro tempore during the final session.[1] He was a professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School from 1850 until his death in Ann Arbor on August 17, 1860.[2]

gollark: It stores each *byte* with an index into pi, which is not very efficient.
gollark: Ah, here you go:https://github.com/philipl/pifs
gollark: I think there's a thing called PiFS.
gollark: I think the calculators we have for school store numbers as either rationals, surds (multiples of square roots, or something like that), or multiples of pi.
gollark: You miss out on those pesky infinitely long numbers.

References
  1. Hinsdale, Burke A. (1906), Demmon, Isaac (ed.), History of the University of Michigan, University of Michigan, pp. 172–173, retrieved 2018-11-04
  2. Hinsdale 1906.


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