Alameda-Sacramento-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Du Bois, Amos S. 1829 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 17, 2006, 10:49 pm 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: Extracted from 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/alameda/bios/dubois790nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb