Bio:  George A. Harper, D. D. S., Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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George A. Harper, D. D. S., is a skillful practitioner of the pleasant little
city of Homer, La., and is a native of Claiborne Parish, his birth occurring
here in 1864, being one of three children.  Dr. Harper is a graduate of
Vanderbilt College of Dentistry of Nashville, Tenn., his education in this
institution being completed in the year 1887, but he was a well-educated young
man ere he entered the dental college, for he had received thorough training
in the Meridian Male and Female Academy of Meridian,__.  His father is a
renowned physician in the prosperous town of Meridian.  He served in the
Rebellion with distinction and bravery, which received for him encomiums from
his countrymen.  His wife, whose maiden name was Miss Geraldine Nuckolls, was
a Tennesseean, who died in 1872, after which Dr. Harper married Miss Lelia
Nuckolls, a sister of his first wife, by whom he has seven children.  He has
attained a prominent position as a medical practitioner in his portion of the
State, and being possessed of engaging manners, and a brilliant mind, coupled
with unquestioned integrity, and habits of strict morality and sobriety, it is
not to be wondered at that his career has been one of distinction and success. 
Dr. George A. Harper began his independent career as a salesman in a drug
store at the age of eighteen years, and after following this until he reached
his twentieth year, he began the study of dentistry, and finally graduated as
has been mentioned above.  As he possesses numerous admirable traits of
character, a bright future is before him.  He was the leader of his class in
mechanical execution of his work whilst in college, and otherwise became
distinguished whilst preparing himself for his profession, being an earnest
and painstaking student.  He entered upon his practice in Homer in 1887, and
has already acquired a widespread reputation as a dental surgeon.  He is a
honored member of the K. of P., of Homer, La., and has always affiliated with
the Democratic party, and al all times has endeavored to endorse men of
principle and honor, although he is not an active partisan, except in the
matter of voting.  Dr. Harper has always been a young man of much principle,
of that moral and personal integrity, and clear well-balanced, active
intelligence, for which all his people have been noted.  He holds a warm place
in the estimation of his numerous friends and patrons, and promises to be a
valuable adjunct to the citizenship of any locality in which he may make his
home.

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