Calaveras
County
Biographies
ELMER W. WEIRICH, M. D.
A resident of Angel’s Camp, Dr.
Elmer William Weirich has there gained an enviable
reputation as a prominent physician and is now serving as the health officer of
Calaveras County. He is a native of
Massillon, Ohio, born on the 3rd of March, 1866, and is of German
lineage, his ancestors having been early settlers of the state of Pennsylvania,
where his father, Isaac Weirich, was born and
reared. He removed to Massillon, Ohio,
and was married there to Miss Maria Everhard. He followed merchandising and also owned and
operated flouring mills, being actively identified with the business interests
of that place, of which he was one of the first settlers. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian, is
a public-spirited and progressive citizen, and all who know him esteem him for
the excellence of his character. He has
two sons and two daughters.
Dr. Weirich
is now the only member of the family in California. He was in part educated in Ohio and afterward
continued his professional education in the Hahnemann Hospital Medical College
at San Francisco, in which institution he was graduated in the class of 1889,
and he now practices in full accord with the teachings and beliefs of the
latter school of medicine. However, he
takes the best out of both and at all times he is ready to accept the new
discoveries made by the representatives of the medical science that are
calculated to advance the object of the calling, the perpetuation of life and
the restoration of health. He practiced
in San Francisco previously to coming to Calaveras County, where he has
practiced for ten years, the four last year’s being located at Angel’s Camp,
where he has met with gratifying success and has built up a large and lucrative
practice. He has the honor of being the
pioneer homeopathic physician of Calaveras County, and has erected a nice home
on one of the commanding building sites of Angel’s Camp, in which he has a well
equipped office.
Dr. Weirich
was happily married in 1887 to Miss Catherine H. Smith, a native of Marysville,
California, and a daughter of Colonel S. P. Smith. The Doctor and his wife have three
children: Norman E., Catherine G. and
Victoria G. He is a valued member of the
order of Freemasons and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a past
noble grand in the latter. In politics
he is a Republican. He enjoys fully the
respect and esteem of all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance and in the
professional circles he occupies an enviable position.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 709-710. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2011
Gerald Iaquinta.
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