Santa Cruz County Biographies

FRANK WILBUR BLISS

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        Dr. F. W. Bliss is the president of the California State Dental 
Association. He is one of the leading dentists of Santa Cruz, and an agreeable 
and popular gentleman.
        He was born in St. Charles, Kane County, Illinois, May 17, 1852, and 
until the age of fifteen lived on a farm and attended the public school. He 
attended Clark's Seminary when sixteen years old, and when eighteen he taught 
during the winter to provide himself with funds to obtain a higher education. At 
the age of twenty he entered the State University at Champaign, intending to 
take a college course, and then study medicine; but after a year he came home 
and fell in with an old friend, Dr. Frank Robinson, from whom he imbibed the 
idea of becoming a dentist. He went into Dr. O. Wilson's office, at Aurora, 
Illinois, and, after being there a year, entered the dental department of 
Harvard University, returning to the office after the first course. He attended 
Harvard again in 1874 and 1875, and the Philadelphia College in 1876 and 1877, 
graduating during the latter year. He then came direct to Santa Cruz, where he 
arrived on the eleventh day of June, 1877, and has practiced his profession here 
ever since, in fact, in the same office. During two years of this time he was 
clinical operator in the Dental College of San Francisco, and, as above stated, 
is now president of the State Dental Association.
        He was married, June 13, 1882, to Lucy Ellen Newell, of Santa Clara, and 
is the owner of a pleasant home on Mission Street. Four children have been born 
unto them, two girls and two boys, aged respectively eight, six, five, and two. 
For the past six years he has been one of the trustees of the Santa Cruz 
Library, and, though modestly disclaiming the distinction, is prominent among 
the professional men of this county.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891