Fredericks, George G. M. D., D. D. S.

Submitted by Mike Miller

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.