Friedrichs, Dr. P. J.

Submitted by Mike Miller

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.