Fresno County, 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 
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HANS WILLIAM SORENSEN.� Prominent among medical men of 
Central California is Hans William Sorensen. D.D.S., whose offices are 
located in the Rowell Building. Fresno. Dr. Sorensen was born on December 
19, 1892. on a ranch in the Washington Colony, eight miles west of Fowler. 
For nine years he attended the Washington Colony grammar school, and 
then for four years was a student in the Washington Union High School, 
thus laying well the foundation of a liberal education and equipping himself 
in the best possible fashion for later professional success. For some time he 
was in the employ of Stephens & Bean, of Fresno, and then he went to 
Nashville. Tenn., and matriculated at the Vanderbilt University. Dental 
Department. His studies there were followed by a year in the splendidly 
equipped dental department of the University of Southern California, from 
which he was graduated with honors in 1915. 

Having both by undergraduate and postgraduate work left no stone un- 
turned to thoroughly master the science and technique of his chosen pro- 
fession, Dr. Sorensen began the practice of dentistry in July, 1915, in the 
Rowell Building, Fresno, where he has since attained to such success , 
and since then his expert services have been in great demand. After the entry 
of the United States into the World War, Dr. Sorensen enlisted on June 
3, 1917, was commissioned first lieutenant of the Dental Reserve of the 
United States Army, and was called into active service at Camp Fremont, 
where he was stationed until he received his honorable discharge, on Decem- 
ber 10, 1918. He then did postgraduate work at the Carr School of Pre- 
ventative Medicine and Dentistry, from which he was graduated on Feb- 
ruary 14, 1919, when he returned to Fresno and fitted up a new office in the 
Rowell Building. Dr. Sorensen is the secretary of the San Joaquin Valley 
Dental Association, which numbers on its rolls the most distinguished repre- 
sentatives of the dental profession in this part of the country. He is a mem- 
ber of the University Club and of Fresno Lodge No. 439, B. P. O. Elks. He 
was made a Mason in Center Lodge, No. 465, F. & A. M., and is a member 
of San Jose Consistory, No. 9, Scottish Rite Mason, and of Islam Temple, 
A. A. O. N. M. S., San Francisco.