Callaway, Isaac Malcolm (M. D.); Webster Parish; now Caddo Parish Submitted by Mike Miller Date: 1999-2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Callaway, Isaac Malcolm, M. D., Shreveport, La., was born at Cotton Valley, Webster parish, La., Jan. 1, 1868, son of Felix Richard and Helen Elizabeth (Roby) Callaway, both of whom were born in the state of Georgia, the father in the year 1834. The latter also passed his boyhood in the state of his nativity and when the Civil war came on enlisted as an artilleryman and served throughout the war under the command of Gen. Longstreet. When he returned to his home after the surrender, naturally he found his fortune depleted, and getting together such slender resources as he could command removed from Americus, Ga., to Louisiana and located in Cotton Valley, Webster parish. He had been reared according to the prevailing custom among well-to-do Georgia planters prior to the Civil war, and was therefore the possessor of a finished education, which served him well in the succeeding years. Soon after locating in Louisiana he married and settled down to the avocation of a cotton planter, to which he devoted the remaining years of his life, with the exception of the past decade, which has been passed at the home of the subject of this sketch. His wife died in 1896, after having become the mother of 7 children, 4 of whom died in childhood. The surviving children are: Isaac Malcolm, subject of this sketch; Catherine Elizabeth, wife of E. M. Burleigh, of Gibsland, La.; Matthew Madison, of Denison, Tex. Isaac Malcolm Callaway, the eldest child surviving, passed his childhood and youth to his 17th year at the plantation home of his parents. In the course of his education he attended Belvue academy, La., and Mississippi college, at Clinton, Miss., following which the young man found employment as a drug clerk in a general store of Bossier parish, La., where he continued about 2 years, his idea being to ultimately become a physician. In 1889 he entered the Shreveport Charity hospital as an interne [sic], serving in that capacity until 1891, when he went to New Orleans and entered the medical department of Tulane university, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1893. Immediately thereafter he began medical practice at Knox Point (now Atkins), La. After 1 year's practice at this place the Doctor returned to Shreveport for about a year's practice there, and following this located at Alden Bridge, La., where he remained until 1898, when he was called to the Shreveport Charity hospital as assistant surgeon and superintendent. He remained encumbent of this position during the succeeding 5 years, when he resigned to resume practice in the city of Shreveport. After about 4 years the Doctor again returned to the Shreveport Charity hospital as house surgeon, which important station he continued to occupy 4 years, since which time he has been engaged in the general practice of medicine and surgery at the city of Shreveport. In 1903 he took a postgraduate course at the New York Polyclinic, and again in 1813 did clinical work at New York city. The Doctor is a member of the Shreveport, Louisiana state, and American Medical associations; he is a Democrat, a Master Mason, member of the Baptist church, Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Columbia club. In 1894 Dr. Callaway was married to Miss Bessie Atkinson, of Kosciusko, Miss. Of 5 children born to them 2 survive at this time, these being Helen Elizabeth and Teresa. Two children died in infancy, and a son, Felix Jackson, was drowned at the age of 9 years. It is proper to say here that Dr. Callaway is a self-educated man, having earned the funds with which his way was paid through the educational institutions he attended. Instances such as this should operate as a substantial encouragement to those young men whose paths are not so smooth as they might wish, and furnishes an ever-recurring proof of the adage that "Where there is a will there is a way." Source: Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 84-85. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.