Dr. J. M. Fraer

     Dr. J. M. Fraer, a successful practitioner of Chattanooga, is the son of Peter and Celia (Bennett) Fraer. The father was born in New York and the mother in Liverpool, England, and when eight years of age was brought to Canada where she and Mr. Fraer were married. Having lived there about ten years they moved to Lewiston, N. Y., afterward to Niagara Falls and still later to Erie County, Penn., where both died. He was a manufacturer and inventor. Of the four children born to them only one is now living, our subject. He was born January 1, 1846, near Dundas, Canada. He received an academic education and a medical education at the Homoeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, at Detroit Homoeopathic Medical College and at New York Homoeopathic Medical College, graduating at Detroit and taking a post graduate course at New York. He also took private instructions in surgery under William T. Helmuth. After practicing until 1872 he came South and soon after established himself in Chattanooga. In 1883 he married Miss Julia Williams. For fourteen years he has been in the practice of his profession and has met with evident success as a physician. He passed through the several epidemics, but stood at his post through all. He is a Knight of Pythias and an influential citizen.
Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887