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Biography
Henry Augustus DuBois (1808–1897) was a French surgeon who served in the American Civil War and in the American Indian Wars of New Mexico. He was the founder of the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery.
Family
Henry A. DuBois is the great-grandson of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Biography
Henry A. DuBois entered the French military in 1817. In 1827, he graduated from the Columbia University, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1830. From 1831 to 1834, he moved to Europe to further his studies, and was a member of the Polish committee. In 1852, Henry A. DuBois became president of the Virginia Canal Co. in Kanawha. In 1864, he became a Legum Doctor from Yale College.
After serving in the American Civil War and in the American Indian Wars of New Mexico where he contracted the Chickahominy fever, Henry A. DuBois settled in San Rafael, a place he qualified as a "sanitarium for chronic diseases" when publishing in the California Medical Society’s journal. He resided with Alfred Taliaferro, the first physician in the area. He purchased a wide land west of San Rafael, and opened the Mount Tamalpais Cemetery in August 1879
In 1874, he launched the development program of Denver's San Rafael district.
In 1887, Henry A. Dubois created the Pacific Coast Vaccine Farm, the first vaccine farm on the west coast.
Henry A. Dubois died May 27, 1897 of the typhoid fever he contracted in Virginia.
Other tenures
- Member of the Société géologique de France since 1834