Notes for: Harmanus Van VLECK Jr
Notes for: Harmanus Van VLECK Jr
Dr Van Vleck was a successful physician in Waukesha, WI but left there for California in the 1850's where he settled in Placerville. His trip overland, which he made in his own carriage with his wife, accompanied by a train of 11 wagons, was not without incident. One adventure he often related concerned a meeting with marauding Indians. Undaunted, he faced them and removed and held up first his upper teeth and then his lower plate. The redskins were so astounded by the white man's magic that they turned and fled.
On this long trip he maintained his professional dignity by wearing a long redingote, while his wife took her place beside him dressed in flounced petticoats, coloured silk dresses and red morocco shoes.
He married secondly a widow Story in Wisconsin, but they separated and he returned to Placerville, CA.
(San Francisco Chronicle of 06 Jun 1941)