Bio: Guy Alvin Caldwell; Corinth, MS., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000





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Guy Alvin Caldwell.  As an orthopedic surgeon, to which his private practice
is limited, Doctor Caldwell, of Shreveport, has had perhaps as extensive
opportunities for training and has realized as to completely the opportunities
of success in his chosen field as any other man in this specialty in
Louisiana.

Doctor Caldwell was born at Corinth, Mississippi, January 24, 1891, son of
Rufus Lusk and Frances (Hill) Caldwell.  He was reared in Corinth, acquired
his early education there, and pursued his liberal arts courses in Vanderbilt
University and the University of Mississippi.  His medical education was
gained in the Columbia University School of Medicine in New York, graduating
M. D. in 1914.  By appointment he served two years as an interne in the
Presbyterian Hospital of New York.  His aptitude and his personal inclinations
lead him to specialize in orthopedics, that branch of surgery which pertains
to the treatment and remedy of fractures and deformities of the bones and
joints caused congenitally or by disease.

In December, 1915, Doctor Caldwell was called to France to assist Dr. Joseph
A. Blake in his fracture hospital, Ris-Orangis.  After America entered the war
he joined the American Army Medical Corps, again under assignment to Colonel
Blake, and for two and a half years was in Paris under that great specialist. 
On returning to America Doctor Caldwell served for one year as resident
physician to the Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.  Following that he was
assistant orthopedic surgeon to the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled
Children and also associated in surgery in charge of fractures in the Emory
University Medical School at Atlanta for three years.

The work that brought him to Shreveport, involving a service especially
noteworthy, was the position as surgeon-in-chief to the Shriner Hospital for
Crippled Children at Shreveport.  He came from Atlanta in September, 1922, to
assume the responsibilities of this office.  He continued there until October,
1923, when he resigned to give his entire time to private practice in his
specialty.  He also is in charge of orthopedic surgery at the Charity Hospital
in Shreveport.

Doctor Caldwell married at Toronto, Canada, in May, 1915, Miss Gladys I.
Dixon.  They have three children:  Marie Muriel,  Mignoee Frances and  Murray
Guy.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 210, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.