San Francisco County
Biographies
GEORGE HERMAN KRIECHBAUM
GEORGE HERMAN KRIECHBAUM, a dentist of Oakland, was born in
Corvallis, Benton county, Oregon, May 10. 1861, son of John George and Lucy (Morgan) Kriechbaum.
His father, born near Berlin, Germany, came with his parents to America in
1816, who settled in Burlington, Iowa, as pioneers,
and died April 21, 1888, in Oakland. His parents lived to an advanced age. They
left four sons and one daughter, all of whom are now living, between sixty-five
and seventy-five years of age. The grandfather Morgan lives with his family
near Springfield, Illinois. Their ancestry are
American for generations, and probably of Scotch origin. Mr. Morgan was about
sixty-five years old at death, and his wife died probably about seventy-five
years old. All came to Oregon, settling at Eugene. John George Kriechbaum was a physician for forty-six years. While in
Corvallis he was elected Coroner, and he practiced medicine there for twelve
years, near Windsor, Sonoma county, and during the
last ten years of his life he practiced mostly at Oakland. About 1868, in
Sonoma county, he and his wife joined the Seventy-Day
Adventists, and are now, as well as their son, stockholders in some of the
enterprises of that people. On his death Dr. Kriechbaum
left two sons and two daughters: George H., our subject; Fannie, now Mrs.
Joseph Dimmick.
At
the age of eighteen years Dr. Kriechbaum, whose name
heads this sketch, began the study of dentistry, under Drs. Warner, of Oakland,
and S. H. Roberts, of San Francisco, continuing two years, one year of which
time he was associated with the latter in practice. Directly after the passage
of the law requiring dentists to obtain certificates he complied, and now he
has been practicing for about ten years, with signal success. In 1881-2 he was
in Jackson, Amador county. For his present office he
has five rooms and five assistants.
He
was married in Jackson, in 1881, to Mary Briggs, who was born in 1861, in that
place, the daughter or Hon. R. M. Briggs, Superior Judge of Mono county, who died in 1887, at the age of seventy-one years.
His widow, Mary Scott, before marriage, is still living, aged about sixty
years.
Mrs.
Kriechbaum,
is a graduate in music. Dr. And Mrs. Kriechbaum have one daughter living, Maud Irene, born in
1882; they lost three children in infancy.
The
Doctor is a member of Oakland Lodge, No. 118, I. O. O. F., and is actively
interested in all the enterprises of his church. He is a large land-owner, is
president of the San Francisco Packing Company, which is operating upon a
capital of $250,000, and is also interested in a box factory.
Transcribed
by Elaine Sturdevant.
Source: "The
© 2006 Elaine Sturdevant.