This site is under construction April 2012

Welcome to the Web site of the Descendants of Elias Fries Association!

 We invite everyone interested in the life of Elias Fries and his work as well as in mycology in general to take part of these pages. These pages are open for members as well as none members.

We hope that you will find these pages informative and that you eventually take contact with us! It is also our hope that these pages can inspire you to visit Femsjö in Sweden!

 The following texts have been given to us by the Courtesy of the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Otto Fries 1838-1931

The following text is an obituary on Otto Fries, Elias Fries´ second son who was a county surveyor in Orlando, Florida.

By the Courtesy of the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando

The letter below was written just a few months before Otto´s wife Christina and their two daughters came over to Florida.

By the Courtesy of the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando

A funny drawing of Otto´s father Elias Fries below published in an English newspaper. Uncertain when and which paper.