California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


ROBERT E. BERING, M. D. The stability of character noticeable in the German race and the 
genial social qualities with which nature has endowed those of southern birth find expression 
in the temperament and talents of Dr. Bering, who is first vice-president of the San Joaquin 
Medical Society, and a member of the Fresno County, State and American Medical Associa- 
tions. As a contributor to medical journals he has advanced ideas of interest to his professional 
brethren, while by the thoughtful reading of literature of a similar nature he has broadened 
his own professional equipment. Many physicians of the twentieth century have given them- 
selves to specialties and he has proved no exception to the rule, having established in Tulare 
a sanatorium where he gives treatment for the cure of the morphine, whiskey and other drug 
habits. 

When Louis H. Bering was a boy he came to America with his father from his native prov- 
ince of Hesse-Cassel, Germany, and settled in Houston, Tex., where he grew to manhood and 
entered upon a successful business career. From that time forward he had hardware interests 
in that city and Galveston, and his death occurred in Houston in 1891. While making 
Houston his home he there formed the acquaintance of Mary J. Michau, a native of Florida, 
and a daughter of Dr. M. M. Michau, who was a dentist and who also did considerable work 
as a home missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Louis H. Bering was united 
in marriage with Miss Michau, by whom he had three children. The eldest, Dr. Robert E. Ber- 
ing, was born in Galveston, Tex., January 9, 1871, and had excellent advantages in the Hous- 
ton high school, from which he was graduated in 1888. With a love for the medical profession 
formed in childhood, he early decided to enter upon its study and practice, and pursuant to that 
end he became a student under Dr. J. M. Boyles of Houston. In 1889 he matriculated in the 
Tulare University, New Orleans, where he took the full course of four years, supplemented by 
two years of work in Charity Hospital in the same city. 

After having received the degree of M. D., in 1895, Dr. Bering opened an office in his home 
town of Houston, but soon removed to Alice, Tex., and from there in 1901 came to Califor- 
nia. Since then he has conducted a general practice of medicine and surgery, in addition to 
maintaining his private hospital, and in both capacities he has become well known throughout 
the San Joaquin valley. When attending college in New Orleans he met and later married 
Miss Noemie Bostick, a native of that city, but of English descent. They have three children, 
Robert Ellis, Virginia May and Louis Henry. The family attend the Methodist Episcopal 
Church of Tulare, in which Dr. Bering officiates as a steward. Politically he favors Democratic 
principles. Before leaving Texas he was initiated into Masonry at Corpus Christi, and in 
addition he holds fraternal relations with the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen of 
America, Improved Order of Red Men, Independent Order of Foresters, Fraternal Aid and 
Fraternal Brotherhood in Tulare, all of which bodies retain him in the capacity of examining 
physician, and in addition he has held the presidency of the organization last named.