JANUARY, D. P., M. D.; MS., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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D. P. JANUARY, M. D., CROWLEY.--Dr. D. P. January was born near Natchez,
Mississippi, August 3, 1837.  He is the son of B. P. and Drusilla (Fontleroy)
January, natives of Mississippi and Kentucky, respectively.  B. P. January is
now a resident of Natchez, and is over seventy-seven years of age.  His wife
died November, 1889, at the age of seventy-three years.  B. P. January was a
successful planter in Mississippi and Louisiana before the war.  In the Civil
War he was commissioned by the Confederate government, and stationed in
Mississippi to transfer prisoners across the river.

The subject of this sketch is the oldest of a family of eight children.  He
received his literary education at the Kentucky Military Institute, at
Frankfort, from which he graduated in 1857.  In 1858 Dr. January entered the
medical school of the then University of Louisiana, from which he graduated in
1860.  He then practised [sic] in Houston, Texas, and was here at the breaking
out of the war, when, abandoning his lucrative practice, he offered his
services to the Confederate army.  He was assigned assistant surgeon in the
Army of Tennessee, and during the Georgia campaign was stationed at Auburn,
Alabama.  At the close of the war he located at St. Joseph, Louisiana, where
he practised until 1887, at which time he removed to Crowley, where he opened
a drug store.  Dr. January was married, in 186i, to Miss Josephine Reeves of
Tensas parish, Louisiana.  They are the parents of a son, D. R., who is
associated with his father in the drug business at Crowley, and a daughter,
Josephine, wife of Frank Burt.  Dr. January is a member of the Masonic order,
and in religion is an Episcopalian.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
265-266.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.

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