MORRIS, James F., M. D.; Harden County, TN., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana
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JAMES F. MORRIS, M. D., RAYNE.--Dr. James F. Morris, a prominent physician of
this place, was born in Harden county, Tennessee, November 2, 1856.  He is the
son of John H. and Emily (Scott) Morris, both natives of Tennessee, where they
both died, the former in 1873, at the age of forty-two, and the latter in
1868, at the age of thirty-six.  John H. Morris was a Methodist minister
belonging to the West Tennessee Conference, and preached to nearly all the
congregations in that State.

The subject of this sketch is the eldest of a family of five children.  He
received his education at Purdy College, Tennessee.  He began the study of
medicine in 1876 at Paris, Texas, Dr. McCristin being his preceptor.  In
1878-79 he graduated at the American Medical College of St. Louis; later he
continued his studies in Memphis, making surgery and gynaecology his
specialties, and graduated there in 1884, also taking a course of lectures at
Keokuk, Iowa.  He began the practice of medicine in 1877.  In 1886, however,
he again took a course of medical study in the various hospitals and colleges
of San Francisco.  In 1887 Dr. Morris married Miss Emma Hill, of New Orleans. 
They are the parents of four children:  James B.,  Bascom F.,  May and 
Lillian.  The Doctor is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of
Honor.  He has been a member of the town council since the organization of the
town.  He is also coroner of Acadia parish.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 269. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.

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