Alameda-Sacramento-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Du Bois, Amos S. 1829 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

AMOS S. DU BOIS, M. D., San Leandro, was born in Allegany County, New York,
March 8, 1829, of the old Du Bois stock of French extraction, who settled in New
York probably before the declaration of independence in America. His
grandfather, Conrad Du Bois, was a private soldier in the American army during
the Revolutionary war and in the war of 1812. The doctor's father, Abram Du
Bois, was a native of New York and a Methodist minister, who, in 1836, moved to
Pennsylvania. He married Miss Mehitabel Whitmore Sumner, a native of
Massachusetts. After a residence of two years in Pennsylvania, they returned to
New York State, where Dr. Du Bois finished his education at Milan, Ohio, and
taught school in Ohio until 1852. Returning to New York, he came thence to
California by the Nicaragua route, landing in San Francisco on February 1, 1853.
Until 1858 he followed mining in the vicinity of Sacramento, where he was
employed by the water company for about two years. From 1861 to 1865 he taught
school and studied medicine, graduating in San Francisco. He practiced his
chosen profession at Lincoln, in Placer county, until 1868, when he went to
Auburn, the county-seat, and took charge of the county hospital, which position
he filled until August, 1874. He continued in general practice there until 1874,
when he went East, took a course of lectures in New York city and special
studies in surgery at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of that city, and
graduated in 1875. Returning to California he located at San Leandro, where he
is now, and has been for fifteen years a member of the board of health, and also
visiting physician and surgeon to the Alameda County Hospital and Infirmary, and
has an extensive practice. Socially he affiliates with the F. & A. M. and the I.
O. O. F. May 28, 1865, at Oakland, he married Miss Georgiana Barlow, a native of
Canada. Her grandfather on her father's side was a colonel in the Revolutionary
war. Dr. Du Bois has a grown son, named Sumner V.

Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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