REEVES, James T., M. D,. Thomson, GA., then Concordia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Reeves, James Truman, M. D., prominent physician, banker and public spirited citizen, was born
Jan. 19, 1877, near Thomson, Ga.  A short account of the Reeves ancestry is given in connection
with the sketch of his brother, Dr. M. C. Reeves, elsewhere in this volume.  J. T. Reeves spent his
youth and early manhood in Georgia, until 1902.  He attended elementary school at Wrens, Ga.,
and later the medical department of the University of Georgia for 3 years.  He left there in 1903
and passed the year 1904 in the medical university at Baltimore.  It was the year of the great fire
in that city when he received his degree of M. D.  He then moved to Ferriday, La., and began the
practice of his profession, which he has continued to this time.  He went into the drug business in
Ferriday the first year he was there and continues that also.  Dr. Reeves is a member of the
Louisiana State Medical society, was secretary and treasurer of the Concordia Medical society
until it suspended, has been local surgeon for the T. & P. R. R. since 1906, is a member of the
Elks' club of Natchez, and of the Knights of Pythias at Vidalia.  Politically, he is a democrat, is
alderman and treasurer of the town of Ferriday, and is a director of the Ferriday State bank.  Dr.
Reeves was married Feb. 9, 1910, to Corina, daughter of J. M. Hutchinson of Kentwood, La., and
they have 1 son, James Truman Reeves, Jr.

Source:  Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons,
Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, volume 3, pp. 734-735.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit. D. 
Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.