Solano County Biography
Levi C Frisbie
Levi C Frisbie - the elder son of Eleazer B. Frisbie and Cynthia Cornell Frisbie, was born in the city of Albany, N. Y., on the 1st day of May A. D. 1821; after a preliminary course of education in his native city, he completed his academic term in the Buffalo Academy and commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. William Bry and surgery with Dr. Alden March in the year 1837, and graduated at the Albany Medical College February 23,1841. Immediately after receiving his diploma he commenced practice with his old preceptor in the city of Albany and continued the same without interruption until the year 1850; when from overwork during the cholera epidemic of 1849, his health became so undermined as to necessitate entire suspension of business and compel him to seek mental quietude and physical recuperation from travel and change of scene and association. After four years thus spent his health was so far restored as to enable him to resume practice in the year 1854, since which time he has been an active practitioner of his profession in the city of Vallejo and is now the oldest one in the county of Solano. He has been twice elected president of the medical society of his native county and has officiated as the first President of the Pacific Medical Society, comprising the counties of Solano, Sonoma and Napa. In the year 1851 in connection with Gen. Vallejo and Gen. John B. Frisbie he laid out the plan of the city of Vallejo, which the same year by a majority vote of the people of the State and a two-thirds vote of the Legislature became the capital of the State. In the year 1858 he married Adela Vallejo the second daughter of Gen. Vallejo, by whom he has one child, now the wife of D. McCarthy, Jr., Treasurer of the city of Syracuse in the State of New York. The Doctor is now in his fifty-eighth year and having devoted the best years of his life to his profession, has retired from active practice, and in the enjoyment of an ample competence is content to pass the remainder of his days among the people and amid the scenes he loves so well.
History of Solano County, California
Pages 351-352
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, February 2008
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