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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

DR. LEONARD F. DOZIER, first assistant physician of the Napa State Asylum for
the Insane, has been a resident of California for the past twenty years, during
fourteen of which he has held his present position. Born in Williamsburg County,
South Carolina, on his father's plantation, on the Great Pedee River, he
received his primary education under private teachers at home, and graduated in
1856, at the South Carolina Military Academy at Charleston. Graduating at the
Oglethorpe Medical College at Savannah, Georgia, in 1859, he practiced medicine
in that city for one year, meanwhile occupying the chair of Materia Medica in
the college. He then removed to Burke County, Georgia, where he continued in the
practice of his profession until he entered the Confederate service as a private
soldier in May, 1862. After serving in that capacity for a few months, he was
appointed to the Adjutancy of the Twenty-first Regiment of South Carolina
Infantry, C. S. A. He served as Adjutant of his regiment until after the siege
of Battery Wagner, on Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, which was, at first,
garrisoned exclusively by his regiment. In resisting the landing of the enemy,
during the first day of attack, he was severely wounded in the right chest.
Being confined through the long siege of sixty days in the fort of Battery
Wagner, his wound developed a very severe case of pneumonia. His health remained
so much impaired that the surgeon advised his giving up the active exposure of
the line for a position in the medical service, and he secured an appointment as
surgeon, and was ordered to General Longstreet's command. He joined Longstreet
at Knoxville, and was with his corps during all his campaigns in Virginia from
May, 1864, to the surrender at Appomattox in April, 1865. Immediately after the
surrender he returned to his native place, but a short residence there under the
changed conditions of the country determined him to emigrate to California,
where he arrived in March, 1868. He commenced practice in Rio Vista, on the
banks of the Sacramento River, in Solano County, where he developed a good
practice and established a drug store, both of which he carried on successfully
for seven years. In April, 1865, he removed to Napa, and was soon afterward
appointed to the position he now holds.

  He was married in May, 1859, to Miss Agnes Bona, of New Orleans. They had five
children, two of whom survive; Dr. W. E. Dozier, of Susanville, Lassen County,
and Thomas B. Dozier, of the firm of Wiley & Dozier, attorneys at law, Redding,
California. She died soon after their arrival in California. In 1874 he married
Miss Mary Dudley, a native of Marlborough County, South Carolina. They have had
three children, of whom only one is now living, John Dudley Dozier, now
attending the Oak Mound School at Napa. Dr. Dozier is a member of the Masonic
Order, Rio Vista Lodge, and of the California State Medical Society.


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.

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