Warren P. Morrill, M. D., Benton Harbor, MI., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Warren P. Morrill, M. D.  Time superintendent of the Charity Hospital 

at Shreveport is a physician with an unusual record of service since 

he graduated from medical college.  He is a veteran of two wars, first 

as a private soldier in the Spanish- American, and a medical officer 

during the World war.



Doctor Morrill was born at Benton Harbor, Michigan, in 1877, and 

grew up in that city on the shores of Lake Michigan.  He attended 

school there, also learned the trade of sheet metal worker, and 

finished his classical education in the University of Michigan, where 

he was graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1898.  In the spring of that year 

he enlisted and served as a private with the Thirty-second Michigan 

infantry in the Spanish-American war.  After this military service he 

followed his trade as a sheet metal worker for several years, and in 

this way paid the expenses of his medical education.



Doctor Morrill is a graduate in medicine of Johns Hopkins University 

at Baltimore, where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1908. 

His interne-ship was served in the Children's Free Hospital in Detroit

and from there he returned to Baltimore as head of the Contagious 

Disease Hospital of that city.  He also acted as referee on contagious 

diseases.  He remained in Baltimore until 1912, following which for 

one year he was superintendent of the general hospital at Winnipeg, 

Manitoba, and for four years was engaged in private practice in his 

native City of Benton Harbor.



In the Spring of 1917 Doctor Morrill was commissioned captain in the 

Medical Corps in the United States Army being assigned duty as 

instructor in army medical camps at Fort Benjamin Harrison and 

elsewhere throughout the Country.  Shortly after the armistice he 

reached France, remaining overseas about ten months.  He was in 

command at Base Hospital No. 90 at Commercy-Meuse and later was 

attached to the headquarters staff at base section No. 2.  He returned 

home late in 1919 with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Medical 

Corps.  Going to Augusta, Georgia, he was superintendent of the 

University Hospital for one year, and from there he came to Louisiana.





The Charity Hospital at Shreveport, of which he is superintendent, is 

supported solely by the state, and is one of the notable institutions 

of the kind in the South.  Doctor Morrill is a southern member of the 

National Hospital Day Committee, and is a former vice president of the 

American Hospital Association.



He is a popular member of various social and civic organizations at 

Shreveport, being especially active in military organizations.  He is 

a past commander of the Lowe-McFarland Post No. 14 of the American 

Legion, is president of the Shreveport Reserve Officers Club, and acts 

as national councilman for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for the 

Reserve Officers Association of the United States.  He is department 

surgeon, State of Louisiana, for Spanish-American war veterans.  Doctor

Morrill is a Knight Templar Mason.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 45, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.