Biography of 	Fredericks, George G. M. D., D. D. S., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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A well-known professional man of New Orleans is George G. Fredricks, M. D., D.
D. S., who was born in Bavaria, Germany, August 11, 1830, a son of Andrew
Fredricks.  At the age of eleven he came with his father to America and located
in Baltimore, Md.  Later he removed to St. Louis and there began the study of
dental surgery under the instruction of Dr. John F. Clarke, with whom he removed
to New Orleans in 1850, and in that city began the practice of his profession
with his preceptor.  In 1855 the degree of D. D. S. was conferred upon him by
the Cincinnati Dental college.  In 1849-50 he attended medical lectures in the
medical department of the University of St. Louis, and he completed his course
and received the degree of M. D. in the medical department of the University of
Louisiana (now Tulane university) in 1883.  With a natural liking for surgery he
has devoted so much time and attention to that branch of practice that he is
known as a skillful specialist in it.  In the department of dental surgery he
has a very large practice, and his skill is so well recognized that by common
consent he holds first place.  He is a permanent member of the Louisiana Medical
association; of the Orleans Parish association; of the American Dental
association, of which he was for a number of years vice-president; of the
Southern Dental association; and of the Louisiana Dental association, to place
which on its present high plane he has perhaps done more than any other one man. 
For two years he was president of the State Dental association and refused a
re-election for a second term.  He has delivered many interesting addresses and
read numerous instructive papers in the interest of the profession, some of
which have elicited the highest praise from the most distinguished of his
brother practitioners.  His connection is still further extended by his
membership of the International Dental congress.  In 1855 Dr. Fredricks married
Louise Nathalie Gaienne.  His son, Dr. Andrew G. Fredricks, a graduate of
Charity Hospital Medical college, a member of the Polytechnic School society,
dentist of Charity hospital and president of the Louisiana Dental association,
is associated with and gradually succeeding his father in his Practice.  The
Fredricks, father and son, are cultured, scholarly, urbane, honorable and
thoroughly trustworthy practitioners, and the latter bids fair to continue the
good work so ably established by the former and to carry the family name
personally and professionally, with all its lustre, into the years after the
father shall be no more.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 423.  Published
by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.