Avoyelles-Rapides County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Gill, Walter J February 17, 1898 - 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

Walter J. Gill, D. D. S.  While the professional career of Dr. Walter J. Gill 
has not been as extensive as some of time others which are presented in this 
volume, he has, through hard and conscientious work and a thorough knowledge of 
his calling, advanced to a prominent place within the space of a few years, and 
is now accounted a reliable and successful dental practitioner.  Since his 
arrival at Alexandria, his present field of practice, in 1923, he has impressed 
his fellow citizens with his ability and mastery of his vocation, with the 
result that he has built up a lucrative Professional business.

Doctor Gill was born at Evergreen, Louisiana, February 17, 1898, and is a son 
of T. J. and Corella (Davenport) Gill.  His grandparents were pioneer residents 
of Louisiana, and his paternal grandfather, T. J. Gill, who served as a soldier 
of the Confederacy during the war between the states, lived to the unusual age 
of ninety-four years.  T. J. Gill, father of Walter J. Gill, was born in 
Louisiana, where he married Corella Davenport, a native of New Hampshire.  They 
became the parents of three children:  Ethel Lee, an active worker in the 
Methodist Church, and the wife of Y. A. Monnger, a merchant at Evergreen, 
Louisiana;  Henry Claude, who is engaged in the automobile business at 
Alexandria; and  Walter J., of this review.  T. J. Gill is a successful 
agriculturist of Avoyelles Parish, and a leading democrat of his community.  
His wife has been active in the movements fostered by the Methodist Church.

Walter J. Gill received his preliminary educational training in time public 
schools at Evergreen, and after his graduation from the high school took two 
years of pre-medical work at the Louisiana State University.  Finally he 
entered Tulane University, New Orleans, from which he was graduated in 
dentistry with the class of 1921, receiving the degree of Doctor of Dental 
Surgery.  In the same year he commenced practice at Haynesville, but in 1923 
changed his residence to Alexandria, where he occupies well appointed offices 
in the Guaranty Bank Building.  He has built up an excellent practice and has 
formed many profitable friendships and connections.

Doctor Gill is unmarried.  He belongs to the Methodist Church and to the Psi 
Omega and Kappa Alpha fraternities, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and member of 
the Mystic Shrine.  In politics he is a democrat.  During the World war he 
joined the Coast Artillery, and at the time of the close of the war was 
attending the Officers' Training School at Fortress Monroe.

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NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the 
subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 229-230, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published 
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 



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