Yolo-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....De Fries, William J. 1841 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM J. DE FRIES, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Woodland, is a son of
John William and Susanna (Hergenga) De Fries, natives of Monroe County, New
York. His father was born August 31, 1816, graduated at Leyden, Holland, Europe,
when twenty-two years of age; was a physician by profession, and died in
Paineville Center, New York, in 1817 [sic]; and the subject's mother, who was
born September 15, 1818, died in 1871.

  Dr. De Fries was born February 5, 1841, in Monroe County, New York, and at the
age of twenty-one years graduated at the Leyden Medical College of Holland. He
then went to Tippecanoe, Indiana, where he entered the service of the Second
Indiana Cavalry, in 1863, enlisting as a surgeon. Serving until 1866 in this
capacity, he entered the corresponding department in the regular army. While in
the volunteer service he was shot several times. His nervous system at length
becoming somewhat affected, he was transferred to the position of Veterinary
Surgeon, and served as such from 1867 until 1880. He then practiced his
profession as surgeon on the Sandwich Islands three years, and in 1884 he
located in Petaluma, California, for one year, when he finally came to Woodland,
where he enjoys a supremacy in the surgical practice of the county. He takes
great pride in his profession.

  June 15, 1882, in the Sandwich Islands, the Doctor married Miss Valmena
Boremann, a native of Bremen, Germany, born there in 1861, and they have had
five children, viz : John William, born in 1883, and died the next year;
Wilhelmine M., September 20, 1885; Fredie L., February 17, 1887; and Bertie,
December 21, 1888.


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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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