Bio: Felan S. White, 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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Felan S. White, M. D., Lisbon, La.  Dr. White, a physician and surgeon of more 
than ordinary ability, is a native-born resident of Claiborne Parish, and was 
educated in Lisbon Academy.  After finishing his literary education he read 
medicine with Dr. H. A. Lewis, of Lisbon (now of Grapevine, Tex.), and entered 
the University of Louisville, Ky., in 1878, graduating in the class of 1880.  
He subsequently commenced practicing at Lisbon, within two miles of his birthplace, 
and there he has continued ever since, actively engaged in his chosen calling.  
His father was a native of Georgia, born in 1808, and all his life has been devoted 
to agriculture.  He left his native State when but eight years of age, removed to 
Alabama, and there remained until 1853, or about that time, when re removed to 
Claiborne Parish, La., where he now resides.  The mother was born in Alabama, but 
she is now deceased.  Both parents received common-school education.  Dr. White 
commenced practicing when twenty-four years of age, and his practice now extends 
over a wide territory.  In politics he has always closely adhered to the Democratic 
party, and his first presidential vote was cast for S. T. Tilden, while he was a 
student at Mississippi College.  The Doctor has been a member of the Missionary 
Baptist Church for fourteen years, and is an exemplary young man in every respect.  
He is well liked by the public and the medical brotherhood.  At present he thinks of 
locating at Lisbon, where he has been known from childhood, and where all have had an 
opportunity to judge of his character and qualifications.

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