Dr. William E. Foster Landers, Jr., who for eighteen years has engaged in the practice of dentistry in Meriden, was born in Mystic, Connecticut, December 23, 1875, a son of William E. Foster and Louise Landers, both of whom are still living. With the removal of the family William E. F. Landers, of this review, pursued his education in the public schools of Mystic and of New London, Connecticut, completing a high school course in the latter place. He then entered a dentist's office, in which he spent eighteen months, and later he went to Philadelphia, where he became a student in the Philadelphia Dental College, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the D. D. S. degree. In the same year he located for practice in New Haven, where he remained for a year, and in August, 1899, removed to Meriden, were he has since continued. He has occupied his present large offices since 1901 and he has the latest equipment and accessories for furthering his professional work. He has comprehensive knowledge of the broad scientific principles which underlie his work and his practice is a successful and growing one. He occupies a prominent posi-tion among the leading dentists of the state and he ever keeps in touch with the trend of advanced thought bearing upon dental surgery.

On the 14th of June, 1905, Dr. Landers was married to Miss Mary Louise Parker, of Meriden, and they occupy a line home on Washington street. In politics Dr. Landers is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day. He belongs to the Home Club and the Highland Country Club, and is appreciative of the social amenities of life. He is a member of the First Congregational church and in its teachings are found the rules which have at all times governed his conduct.