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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

LOUIS J. FREDERICK, M. D., a successful physician and surgeon of Joliet, is 
one of the skilled professional men of this city and has gained an enviable 
reputation in his chosen calling. Since he began in practice here, in 
September, 1896, he has won many friends, both professional and social, and is 
recognized as one of the rising men in the medical field. He has his office in 
the Armory block, on the corner of Chicago and Clinton streets. His success is 
attributable to the close attention which he gives his profession and his 
careful study of every form of disease, with the remedial agencies best 
adapted to each. Genuine love for his profession makes him a student, united 
with which are painstaking care and genial, gentlemanly courtesy, all being 
important factors in success. The doctor's father, Louis Frederick, a native 
of Germany, came to the United States in boyhood and during the Civil war 
served in a Massachusetts regiment. For many years he was engaged in business 
in Chicago and he is still living in that city, but is now retired. He married 
a member of a pioneer family of Waukegan, Ill., and they were the parents of 
four sons and three daughters, our subject being the oldest of the family. He 
was born in Chicago October 8, 1867, and received his education in the city 
schools, graduating from the high school in 1884. Afterward he clerked in a 
drug store, in which way he became familiar with pharmacy, a knowledge that 
was extended by a year's study in the Chicago College of Pharmacy. While 
employed in the drug business he studied medicine under Dr. A. L. Farr. In 
1889 he entered Rush Medical College, from which he graduated in 1892, with 
the degree of M. D. In 1892 he received from Governor Fifer the appointment of 
assistant surgeon at the Illinois state penitentiary and continued in that 
position until September, 1896, when he resigned in order to engage in private 
practice. Since coming to this city he has established domestic ties, his wife 
being Lula, daughter of Capt. Charles Rost, who is a prominent resident of 
Will County. Mrs. Frederick was born in Tennessee, but has spent her life 
principally in or near Joliet, and is well known in the most select social 
circles. She is identified with Central Presbyterian Church and contributes to 
its maintenance. All matters connected with his profession receive Dr. 
Frederick's attention and enlist his interest. At this writing he is physician 
for Will County and surgeon for the Western Stone Company. It has been his aim 
to keep abreast with every development made in therapeutics, and for this 
reason he is a constant student of his profession. In 1896 he took a course in 
the Post-Graduate Medical School in Chicago, and during the summer of 1899 he 
went east, in order to study in the Bellevue Hospital College of New York. 
While he is well informed in every department of medicine, his specialty has 
been diseases of women and children, in which field of practice he has been 
exceptionally successful. He is a member of the Chicago and Will County 
Medical Societies, and has served the latter as secretary. Fraternally he is 
connectedwith the Modern Woodmen of America and the North American Union, of 
which latter he is examining physician. In politics he affiliates with the 
Republican party.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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