Avoyelles-Rapides County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Kilpatrick, Ralph December 21, 1861 - ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mike Miller http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00004.html#0000912 September 24, 2006, 11:06 am Author: Henry E Chambers Ralph Kilpatrick, M. D. Prominent in the medical fraternity of Rapides Parish is found Dr. Ralph Kilpatrick, who is engaged in a practice of gratifyingly large proportions at the thriving community of Alexandria, where his offices are located on Second Street. Prior to locating at Alexandria in 1915, he had for thirty years practiced at Cheneyville, and in both communities is known as a capable, faithful and sympathetic member of his honored calling. Doctor Kilpatrick was born in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, December 21, 1861, and is a son of Andrew Milton and Marjorie Eliza (Cushman) Kilpatrick. His grandfather was Andrew Conger Kilpatrick, a native of South Carolina, who came to Rapides Parish in 1816, as one of the earliest settlers of this part of the state. He married a Miss Tanner, daughter of Robert Tanner, also a native of South Carolina and a pioneer of Rapides Parish, who was one of those who assisted in the arrest of Aaron Burr. Andrew Milton Kirkpatrick was born near Cheneyville, Louisiana, July 16, 1829, and served in the army of the Confederacy during the war between the states, principally as a courier. At the close of that struggle he returned to his home place and engaged in extensive operations as a planter and merchant, in which he was very successful. A democrat in his political affiliation, he was one of the prominent men in his community in public affairs, and for a number of years served, capably, as mayor and justice of the peace at Evergreen. Neither he nor Mrs. Kilpatrick were professed church members, but he leaned toward the Baptist faith and she toward the Episcopal, Mr. Kilpatrick died in 1897, while Mrs. Kilpatrick, who was born at Marksville, Louisiana, in 1837, passed away in 1867. They were the parents of four children: C. M., who was clerk of the court and sheriff of Rapides Parish for over twenty years, and died in 1921; Dr. Ralph, of this review; Herbert, of Washington, Louisiana; and a daughter who died in infancy. Ralph Kilpatrick attended private school at Evergreen, took further preparatory work at New Orleans, and finally entered Tulane University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor at Medicine in 1885. During the next thirty years was engaged in the practice of his profession at Cheneyville, where he won standing and public confidence, and served for a time as mayor. In 1915 he changed his scene of operations to Alexandria, where his success as a general practitioner has increased. Just prior to taking up his residence at Alexandria, he had done post-graduate work at New Orleans, in the Charity Hospital of that city. Doctor Kilpatrick and his family belong to the Episcopal Church. His daughters are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and his son of the Sons of the American Revolution, being entitled to such membership through their mother's family, the Cushman's. Doctor Kilpatrick is fraternally affiliated with the Masons and was master of his lodge three years; and is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. Politically he is a democrat, and his professional connections include membership in the Rapides Parish Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society and the Eighth District Medical Society. On October 15, 1891, Doctor Kilpatrick was united in marriage with Miss Alice Pierson, a daughter of Judge David Pierson and a sister of Dr. Clarence Pierson, a sketch of whose career appears elsewhere in this work. To this union there have been born three children: Sydney Marjorie, who attended the Sophia Wright School at New Orleans, graduated from the Louisiana State University and did postgraduate work at Chicago, New York and Boulder, Colorado, and is now a teacher of mathematics and physics in the Bolton High School, Alexandria; David Pierson, who held a second lieutenant's commission during the World war and was stationed at Camp Jackson and Fort Sill, and is now located at Alexandria with the Alexander, Bolton & Lewis Insurance Company, and Nainette Cushman, who is attending the Louisiana State University. She is the wife of John Worthie Cox, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Additional Comments: A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 245, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/avoyelles/bios/kilpatri26gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb