Thomas R. Sartor, M.D., Allen Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 573-574.  Edited by Alcée
Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Sartor, Thomas R., M. D., successful and well-known physician of Oberlin, La.,
was born at Alto, La., Oct. 23, 1880; son of Daniel R. and Eliza (Balfour)
Sartor, both of whom were born in the state of Mississippi.  During the Civil
war the father served as a private in a Mississippi company.  After the close
of the war he came to Louisiana and shortly thereafter entered the medical
department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane), from which he
graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1872.  In the same year he
began the practice of medicine at Alto, where he remained in active practice
until 1912.  Since the latter year he and his wife have lived in retirement at
Alto.  The ancestors of the Sartor family in Louisiana came originally from
South Carolina.  Seven children were born to Dr. Daniel. R. Sartor and wife. 
Of these children, five are living at this time, as follows:  Thomas R., the
subject of this sketch;  James M., managing his father's plantation at Alto; 
Emmett, a graduate of the Atlanta (Ga.) school of dentistry and now engaged in
practice at  Shreveport, La.;  Frank, on the family plantation at Alto; 
Daniel, plantation bookkeeper.  Thomas R. Sartor attended Mooney's school at
Franklin, Tenn.  Later he was student in the academic department of Tulane
university, after leaving which he entered the medical department of the same
institution, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of
1905.  Soon after the completion of his professional education he began the
practice of medicine at Oberlin,     There he has since remained and devoted
his abilities to the requirements of his profession.  The doctor is a member
of the Calcasieu parish and the Louisiana State Medical societies, Phi Kappa
Sigma fraternity, and is a Royal Arch Mason.  He at this time occupies the
office of coroner of the parish.  Sept. 19, 1907, Dr. Sartor was married to
Miss Cora Runyan, daughter of H. J. Runyan, of Amity, Ark.  Two children have
been born to Dr. and Mrs. Sartor, namely:  Mary Runyan and Thomas R., Jr.,
both of whom are at the parental home.