Author talk:Francis de Sire du Souchet

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"In this issue of the Dental Review is an article on the pioneer dentist of Chicago, Dr. Peter Temple, by Mr. Frank Du Souchet, who has been doing a most notable work among the dentists of Chicago in looking up the early history of the profession in this city. It had always been supposed, and had so been published many times, that Edwin Judson was the first practitioner here but Mr. Du Souchet has shown conclusively that at least four men preceded Judson. According to Mr. Du Souchet, Peter Temple was the first man in 1833 and in following issues he will write of other pioneers in the order of their location in Chicago. Mr. Du Souchet has done for dentistry a work that no man connected with the profession ever has attempted in this city, and which in all probability never would have been done so thoroughly by any other. Assuredly no dentist would have had the time and patience to search for long-buried records and delve in musty volumes day after day as has Mr. Du Souchet, and the present and future generations of dentists owe him a debt of gratitude which can never be fully repaid. Not only has he learned and recorded the particulars of the early practitioners here but he has, after the most painstaking and patient search, obtained photographs of all these men and has collected them in a group so that for all time they are secure against loss. The time when such a work was possible had well-nigh expired, and had not Mr. Du Souchet appeared at the time he did and taken up this work in the spirit of true and faithful historian—as he did—many of these facts and faces would have been forever lost.

He writes in a most entertaining way of the experiences of those early days, and we feel certain that our readers not only in Chicago but elsewhere will be intensely interested in what he says."}}



"Drs. Metcalf and Benedict, in their report as historians of the Michigan State Dental Society, printed in the transactions of the twenty-seventh annual session of that society, held in Detroit in March, 1882, gives a very interesting account of the early dental history of Michigan, from which together with the valuable historical data collected by Mr. Frank Du Souchet, a complete history of early dentistry in Michigan is made possible."



"Francis De Sire Du Souchet"


 * Cook County, Illinois Death Index, 1908-1988

Name:	Francis DE Sire DU Souchet Death Date:	7 Feb 1925 Death Location:	Cook County, IL File Number:	6003811 Archive Collection Name:	Cook County Genealogy Records (Deaths) Archive repository location:	Chicago, IL Archive repository name:	Cook County Clerk