Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Wierzbicki, Felix Paul

WIERZBICKI, Felix Paul, author, b. in Poland; d. in California in 1861. He came to the United States on the failure of the Polish revolution of 1830, and, after teaching for a time, studied medicine and began to practise in Providence, R. I. He emigrated to California in 1848, and turned his attention to metallurgy, publishing one of the first books issued upon the mines of that state. At the time of his death he was employed in the San Francisco mint. He is the author of “The Ideal Man, a Conversation between Two Friends upon the Beautiful, the Good, and the True as manifested in Actual Life, by Philokalist” (Boston, 1841).