"The Oregonian's Handbook of the Pacific Northwest." Portland, OR: Oregonian
Publishing Co., 1894.  pg. 462.

DR. M. PIETRZYCKI

     Dr. M. Peitrzycki, the mayor of Dayton, is one of the most eminent
physicians and surgeons in Eastern Washington.  Born in Galicia, Austria, in
1843, the doctor obtained his education as an apothecary and chemist in his
native country, and came to the United States in 1866. Two years later he
received an appointment to the German Hospital in San Francisco, California,
soon after which he attended the Pacific (now Cooper) Medical College, from
which institution he was graduated in 1872.  The following spring, Dr.
Pietrzycki went to Stockton, California, to engage in the practice of his
profession.  In 1873 he removed to Rio Vista in Solano county, where he became
prominently identified with many enterprises that had for their object the
upbuilding of the town and community in which he lived.  In 1879 Dr. Pietrzycki
removed to Portland, Oregon, and the following year to Dayton, Washington, where
he has since resided.  The doctor's pronounced success as a physician and
surgeon, and his public spirit shown at all times as a citizen, have been
manifested in appreciation on the part of the people by his election to a number
of positions of honor.  During the raging smallpox epidemic of 1881, which he
succeeded in quickly controlling, Dr. Pietryzcki was the health officer for
Dayton and Columbia county.  Later he was elected president of the Eastern
Washington Medical Society, and vice-president of the Washington State Medical
Society.  Dr. Pietrzycki now holds the honorable position of mayor of Dayton,
Washington.  He has ever taken a prominent part in the promotion of Dayton's
welfare, and is the possessor of a few thousand acres of land in Columbia county
employed for agricultural and stock-raising purposes.   
 
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Submitted to the Washington Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.