Bio:  Orum L. Kidd, MD. Claiborne Parish, LA
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by:  Frances (Ball) Turner, Dec. 1997


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History of Louisiana by Chamber
Vol. II, pg. 44

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Orum L. Kidd, M.D.   Through careful preparation Dr. Orum L. Kidd, of
Gibsland, fitted himself for the practice of medicine and surgery, thus
developing his natural talents, and the wide and broadening experience he
has had during the years he has been engaged in his professional work has
aided him in becoming the leading physician and surgeon of this locality.
Some recognition to his standing was shown in his election to the
presidency of the Parish Medical Society, which office he is now holding.

Doctor Kidd was born in Claiborne Parish, in  1881, a son of W.L. and
Maggie S. (Watts) Kidd.  W. L. Kidd was born in Georgia, and from that
state enlisted for service under the Confederacy, in A.P. Hill's division
of the army of Stonewall Jackson.  Soon after the close of the war, he
sought a new locality where he could forget his disappointment over the
lost cause, and in 1866 settled in Claiborne Parish.

From 1886 Doctor Kidd has resided at Gibsland, as in that year his parents
came to the town, and he secured his early education in its public schools.
 Subsequently he took up the study of medicine in the Memphis Hospital
Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1909, with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine.  During 1918 and 1919 he took up post-graduate work in
the graduate school of Tulane University, New Orleans.

Following his graduation, Doctor Kidd spent several years in the lumber
manufacturing districts of Louisiana, generally as surgeon for a lumber
company, and in this way secured an experience of the utmost value.  In
1918 he established himself in a general medical and surgical practice at
Gibsland, and here he has built up a reputation that is second to none in
the parish.  A Mason, he is worshipful master of Gibsland Lodge No. 304,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and has been advanced through the York
Rite to the Temple, and the Scottish Rite to the thirty-second degree, and
his is also a Shriner.

Doctor Kidd married Miss Ruth Jones of Bienville Parish, a sister of Hon.
J.P. Jones of Mount Lebanon, Louisiana, state senator and aprominent
merchant.  Doctor and Mrs. Kidd have two children:  John and Howard Watts
Kidd.

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