Gray, Robert Archibald (MD); Frankfort, KY; now Caddo Parish, LA
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************
 


Gray, Robert Archibald, M. D., successful Shreveport physician, 
was born at Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 11, 1830; son of Joseph Gray, 
a native of Virginia.  The father was a merchant in early life, 
but later became sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives, 
Kentucky, and remained incumbent of this office about 30 years.  
The paternal grandfather was a native of Wales and had only 1 
brother.  Robert Archibald Gray, the son, obtained his academic 
education at B. B. Sayre's institute, Frankfort, and when this 
had been completed matriculated in the medical department of the 
University of Louisville (Ky.), from which he graduated in due 
time with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1853, this being 
in the spring of that year.  During some months following his 
graduation he engaged in practice at his home city, Frankfort, 
Ky., but in the month of December of the same year in which he 
graduated from the medical college the young doctor came south 
and located at the city of Shreveport, La., where he has since 
been continually engaged in the practice of medicine.  Dr. Gray 
is at this time, it is said, decidedly the oldest physician in 
practice in North Louisiana.  He served in the Confederate army 
throughout the Civil war as surgeon of Dreux's battalion, and 
has since served as a member of the hospital board of the city 
of Shreveport, as president of the board, in fact.  He is a 
member of both the Louisiana State and Caddo Parish Medical 
societies and affiliates with the Presbyterian church. 
April 9, 1861, Dr. Gray was married to Miss Amanda Hollingsworth, 
who is a native of the state of Alabama.  Two sons and 2 daughters 
have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Gray, these being:  Robert H., a 
graduate of the Bellevue hospital, New York city, and now associated 
with his father in practice at Shreveport;  De Graffenreid, engaged 
in the real estate business at Shreveport;  Genevieve, now the 
wife of W. F. Taylor of Shreveport, and Herries, wife of 
Dr. G. C. Chanler of Shreveport.

Source:  Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, 
Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic 
Form (volume 3), pp. 185-186.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  
Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.