AMOS J. LANDIS, M.D.

Butte County

Biographies

AMOS J. LANDIS, M.D.

AMOS J. LANDIS, M. D.--Favored in the number of its professional and its business men, Chico is especially fortunate in having as one of its medical practitioners no less a man of science then the affable and aggressive Dr. Amos J. Landis, who was born at Goshen, Ind., on February 14, 1849. His father was Frederick Landis, a native of Lancaster County, Pa., who moved first to Ohio, and was then a farmer at Goshen, Ind. His mother, who was Catherine Holdeman before her marriage, came from Bucks County, Pa. She had fourteen children, seven of whom are still living; and among these, the sixth eldest, was the subject of our sketch.

Having attended the public schools at Goshen, Elkhart County, Ind., A. J. Landis studied medicine for a couple of years in the office of a Physician, and then entered Fort Wayne Medical College, where he pursued the study of medicine another year. He next matriculated at the medical College of Indiana, a department of Butler University, and in 1880 he graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then began the practice of medicine at Adamsville, Mich., where he remained for five and one half years, when he removed to Gettysburg, S.D., where he was for about three years.

Attracted to California and to Chico in particular, Dr. Landis came here in 1888, and has since then been engaged without interruption in the general practice of medicine and surgery. Exceptionally equipped through scientific training, and fortunate in a temperament and personality that have attracted and inspired his patrons, and made and held for him a host of friends, the Doctor is uniformly successful and may well be reckoned today as one of the substantial assets in this progressive community.

Dr. Landis is also interested in agriculture, having long had an almond orchard of twenty-six acres, which he set out twenty-one years before disposed of it. Now he has a stock ranch of four hundred thirty-five acres in Tehama County on the South Fork, near Cottonwood, and other holdings at Hunter’s Post Office, Tehama County. At his first marriage, which occurred in Missouri, Dr. Landis was joined with Miss. Sarah Tinkham, a native of Unionville Ohio, who died at Chico. His Second marriage occurred at Chico, and his bride was Miss Mattie J. Pratt, who was born in Butte County, and who became the mother of two children: Fred Howard Landis, a soldier in the expeditionary forces in France; and Allison, who died at age seven years old. Dr. Landis belongs to the Presbyterian Church and the Fraternal Brotherhood, and is a Republican.

Transcribed by Kim Buck.

Source: "History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1106, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.

Golden Nugget Library's Butte County Biographies

California Statewide

Golden Nugget Library