California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


PALMER A. FALLGREN, D.D.S.� A thoroughly trained and most 
conscientious operator in that field of surgical science � dentistry � in which 
America has long taken the lead, is Dr. P. A. Fallgren, the son of P. A. 
and Sophie Fallgren, natives of Sweden, who was born at Graceville, Big- 
stone County, Minn., on July 16, 1896, and there began his boyhood under 
conditions having the most beneficial effect on his later development along 
the Pacific. When eight years old, he came to California and Kingsburg, 
and here attended both the grammar and the high school, graduating from 
the latter with the Class of '15. 

Taking a fancy to tennis, he made himself so proficient that he was the 
champion high school player ; and playing singles, he won the championship 
of Southern California. He also went in for baseball, and was the first base- 
man of the Kingsburg Speed Boys, which captured the championship of the 
Raisin Belt League, linking Kingsburg, Selma, Del Rey, Sanger, Parlier and 
Reedley. 

When he was ready for a professional career, Mr. Fallgren attended the 
College of Dentistry of the University of Southern California, and there he 
successfully pursued the regular four years' course. He was president of the 
Senior Class of '18, and belonged to the Alpha Theta Chapter of the Chi Psi 
Phi. Few men, perhaps, of his time were more popular among their college 
and university mates, all of which is readily understood in the case of Dr. 
Fallgren when one once is acquainted with his large-hearted, winsome per- 
sonality, his liking for his fellow-men, and the possession of other charac- 
teristics sure to make every man like him. He joined the Dental Alumni 
fraternity of Southern California. He is a member of the San Joaquin Dental 
Society and the National Dental Association, and for a young man is already 
a leader in the ranks of his profession, exerting his influence in favor of the 
most scientific and rational dentistry, and therefore the most beneficent dental 
surgery. 

When the war called for the intervention of America, the athletic young 
devotee of science volunteered his services and enlisting in August, 1918, 
became a first lieutenant at Camp Kearney. He joined the medical depart- 
ment and was a dental surgeon at the Camp Kearney Base Hospital. 

Dr. Fallgren is a member of the Traver Lodge, No. 294, F. & A. M., and 
the Eastern Star, and no one is more welcome in those attractive circles.