WILLIAMS, Sidney L., M.D., Caldwell, then Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 468.  Edited by Alc‚e
Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Williams, Sidney LeGrande, M. D., was born on a plantation in Caldwell parish,
La., May 21, 1877, a son of John Wilton and Mary Isoline (Gilbert) Williams. 
The father and mother were both natives of Louisiana, the former being a
farmer and merchant, first in Ouachita, and then at Bonnor, near Ruston, La. 
It was here that he passed away, in 1884, age 34 years.  He was a son of Rev.
Martin Williams, a Methodist preacher, who also lived in Louisiana.  The
Williams family were originally from North Carolina.  The mother of Dr.
Williams was a daughter of Dr. William T. Gilbert, who practiced at
Farmerville, La., and whose wife was Miss Mary Ann Griffin, a sister of Col.
Sidney H. Griffin, who gave his life for the cause of the Confederacy at
Vicksburg, Miss., during the great struggle between the states.  Dr. Williams,
the immediate subject of this review, attended the public schools at Bastrop
until he was 15 years of age, after which he lived with his uncle a few months
at Monroe, and then went to Bonita, La., to accept a position in a mercantile
business at that place.  During this time he studied under a private teacher,
and later entered the University of Arkansas, where he spent 1 year and
returned to Bonita, and studied medicine under one of the leading physicians
of that locality.  Dr. Williams then went to Memphis, pursuing his medical
studies there, and later entered Tulane university, at New Orleans where he
received his degree of M. D. in May, 1899.  At 22 years of age he began the
active practice of his chosen profession at Oak Ridge, in Morehouse parish,
where he remained for 7 years, and then removed to Shreveport.  In 1903 he
took post-graduate work at Tulane university, and in 1910 went to Chicago,
where he took a course in surgery, in which work he has devoted most of his
time at Shreveport.  Dr. Williams is a member of the Shreveport and Louisiana
State Medical societies, was house surgeon and superintendent of the Charity
hospital at Shreveport for 2 years, vice-president of the state medical
society from the 5th congressional district.  He later became secretary of the
council of this society, in which capacity he served for 2 years.  He is a
Royal Arch Mason and a Methodist in church faith.  The doctor took for his
wife Miss Mildred Williams (no relation) of Bonita, La.  To this union have
been born 2 children,  Mildred Gilbert and  Emily Knox Williams.