Biography of 	Friedrichs, Dr. P. J. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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That well-known dentist, Dr. P. J. Friedrichs, whose office is at 155 Carondelet
street, New Orleans, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1839, and at the age of
two years and a half was brought to the United States by his parents, who
located in Baltimore, Md.  Later the family removed to St. Louis and thence to
Illinois, where our subject received a good common-school education.  In 1852 he
came to New Orleans, but soon returned to Illinois, and there resided until
1858, when he again took up his residence in the Crescent city.  While
temporarily in Mississippi at the outbreak of the late Civil war in the spring
of 1881, he enlisted in Company E, of the Sixteenth Mississippi regiment, and
served with that organization in the Army of Northern Virginia through the long
struggle, and was in General Lee's command at the time of the surrender.  After
the close of the war in 1865 he returned to New Orleans and. entered the office
of his brother, the eminent dental surgeon, Dr. George J. Friedrichs, who was
his instructor for several years, after which he entered the New Orleans Dental
college.  Graduating at the close of 1869, he at once entered upon the practice
of his profession in New Orleans, and has since given his time exclusively to
its successful prosecution and has risen to a high rank in the esteem of the
public and of his brother practitioners.  He is a member of the New Orleans
Odontological society and of the Louisiana State Dental association, and has
prepared valuable papers upon subjects connected with the profession, which have
been read at the sessions of these bodies and have been received as authority by
all who are familiar with them.  The Doctor has married twice and has a son and
three daughters.  Popular, both professionally and socially, he is regarded as a
prominent and influential citizen, alive to everything promising to promote the
public weal.  He is an honored member of the Association of the Army of Northern
Virginia, and is connected with the Knights of Honor and other social and secret
organizations.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), p. 426.  Published
by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.