Bio: Dr. George Franklin Wilson, Bienville Parish Louisiana Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890 Submitted by Kay Thompson Brown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ************************************************ GEORGE FRANKLIN WILSON M.D. Dr. George Franklin Wilson, physician and surgeon, Sparta, La., is one of the class of men singled out by nature to show what a man can do when be sets his mind upon accomplishing a certain object. He is a self-made man, and what he has won in the way of this world's goods, and personal achievements is wholly due to his own good fighting qualities. He secured a good practical education in the common schools of Alabama (his birth occurring in Butler, Choctaw County, of that State on October 4, 1861), and he first studied medicine under his uncle, Dr. H. F. Moody, who was one of the most successful and eminent physicians in that part of Alabama, continuing with him two years. He then entered the Alabama Medical College, at Mobile in 1885, and graduated from the same on March 29, 1889. As before inferred, he started out in life at the foot of the ladder and without my visible means of obtaining his education. In order to accomplish the desire of his life he labored on the farm for $10 per month in order to pursue his studies, and hy his indomitable will, energy and determination he finally graduated, or finished his education with credit to himself and friends. Directly afterward he commenced the practice of medicine at Sparta, La. (1889), and here he resides at the present time. He has established a lucrative and increasing practice, and has the full confidence of his patrons and the community. On December 26, 1889, Miss Lorena Mills, a native of Alabama, horn in 1866, became his wife. The Doctor is a stanch Democrat, and has never been an ultra politician. He has aimed to support men whose honesty and integrity are unquestioned. and as deemed best. He is a public-spirited citizen, and does all in his power to advance the interests of his people and parish. He is a Master Mason and a member of Sparta Lodge No. 108. The Doctor and his estimable wife are members of tire Methodist Episcopal Church South, and they are deeply interested in Sunday-school work. They have always contributed liberally of their means to all benevolent purposes, which were worthy of their consideration. The Doctor, as a professional man, has kept thoroughly posted in his medical profession as well as the current topics of the day, and it is a principle of his to perfect his work and calling more and more. Since his residence in Sparta be has had phenomenal success in several departments of his practice. He is an aspiring young gentleman, and expects to take a post graduate course at Bellevue Medical College, at New York City, which is the ne plus ultra of all aspiring physicians and surgeons. He and Mrs. Wilson expect to make their home in Bienville Parish, where the Doctor is held in highest esteem, not only on account of his successful career as a physician, but for his social qualities. The Doctor's parents, John Thomas and Martha C. (Moody) Wilson. are natives of Alabama, and are now residents of that state. The father is a successful farmer, has been identified with the parish's interests as commissioner, and is now about fifty-two years of age. The mother is also living and is forty- nine years of age. She was well educated in Judson Female College, at Marion, Ala. Of the four children born to their union--three sons and one daughter Dr. Wilson is the eldest in order of birth, William M. (resides in Alabama, and is engaged in tilling the soil), Roberta (died at the age of sixteen years), and Thomas Moody (is nine years of age and is residing in Alabama).