Bio:  William D. Harper M. D., 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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William D. Harper, M. D.  The people of Claiborne, as well as the surrounding
parishes, are familiar with the name that heads this sketch, for many years he
has been successfully occupied in the prosecution of his chosen profession at
this place.  He has shown himself eminently worthy of the confidence and trust
reposed in him by all classes, and has unquestionable shown that hi is a
physician of decided merit.  He is the youngest of the following family: 
James D. (who graduated from the Philadelphia Medical College in 1852, and
practiced his calling at Minden until 1878, at which time he died.  He was
regarded as a leading physician of Northern Louisiana, and his memory still
remains green in the hearts of his numerous acquaintances and friends), Albert
G. (who graduated from the New Orleans Medical College in 1867 and is now one
of the most successful physicians of Minden), Sarah (widow of N. Young, of
Magnolia, Ark.), Mary K. (widow of Judge W. B. Edgar, deceased, of Homer),
Annie (wife of John W. Todd, of Magnolia, Ark.), Margaret(who died in
infancy), Samuel B. (who died at the age of twenty-eight years), and Dr.
William D.  These children were born to Samuel B. and Annie S.(Jones) Harper,
the former of whom was born in Georgia in 1796, and the latter in North
Carolina.  Samuel B. Harper was one of five children, and after the death of
his father his mother married again, her husband being a Mr. Bonner.  Dr.
William D. Harper received the advantages of the common schools of Claiborne
Parish, and at the age of thirty-one years he entered the Tulane Medical
College at New Orleans, from which place he was graduated in 1885.  Since then
he has successfully followed his chosen profession in the place of his birth,
and has acquired an enviable reputation for the conscientious discharge of his
duties.  He was married in 1874 to Miss Nobie Carr, a daughter of W. A. Carr,
a resident of Homer.  Two children  have been born to them: Rolla  C. and Mary
Kinnie.  The Doctor at all times affiliates with the Democratic party, and ,
socially, is a member of the K. of P.  His wife is a worthy member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Until recently the Doctor practiced at Flat Lake,
but in May, 1890, he located in Homer, where his practice is sufficiently
large to keep him fully employed the year round.  Personally, he is a liberal,
generous and high-minded, the soul of honor, and, although he has views of his
own, with the moral courage to express them, he is not in the least
aggressive.

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