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GUSTAV LUDWIG SCHMIDT, D.D.S.
GUSTAV LUDWIG
SCHMIDT, D.D.S, late of Oakland,
was born in Prussia,
January 14, 1851, a son of
George L. and Margaret (Blumenthal) Schmidt.
The mother died at the age of thirty-five, leaving four children, all
living—a daughter in Germany, a son in Michigan, another son in Rochester, New
York, and the subject of this sketch.
The father died in 1889, at the age of eighty-two. Grandfather Gottlieb Schmidt, a farmer at Soldin, near Berlin,
lived to the age of seventy, and his wife to eighty-five. Of their four children, one came to America
as a missionary of the Lutheran Church
and settled in Albany, New York.
G. L. Schmidt, the
subject of this sketch, was educated in the schools of his native country to
the age of fourteen, and then began to learn his profession, attending night
school at the same time for the completion of his general education. Receiving a certificate of skill in his art
in 1869, he came to America
the same year and settled in Chicago. After six years spent in the successful
practice of his profession, he came to this coast in 1875. He first opened an office in San
Francisco, where he was married in July, 1883, to Miss
Alma Holling, a native of that city, born of German
parents, who are still living there, being now in middle life. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt had one child, Carl
Walter, born June 7, 1884,
in this city, where Dr. Schmidt had been successfully engaged in the practice
of dentistry from 1883 to the time of his death in May, 1891. He was a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.
Transcribed
by Cathi Skyles.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2,
page 317-318, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
© 2005 Cathi Skyles.
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