Robert Gibbs Douglas, M. D., De Soto, then Caddo Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************************** Robert Gibbs Douglas, M. D., of Shreveport, in his individual Career, emphasizes the striking attainments exemplified by the entire Douglas family of Northwest Louisiana. This family has lived in De Soto and Caddo parishes for a great many years. Doctor Douglas is a brother of R. T. Douglas, prominent planter, business man and public official at William, Caddo Parish, and another brother was the late James S. Douglas, who died in September, l914, while serving as speaker of the House of Representatives. A sketch or this business man and legislator is published elsewhere in this work. Robert Gibbs Douglas was born at Mansfield, in De Soto parish, in 1885, being the youngest of the children of Jackson and Mary Amelia (Thom) Douglas. He was liberally educated, spending the years from 1904 to 1908 in the University of Louisiana, where he graduated. After his university career he engaged in the contracting business successfully for several years. He then began the study of medicine in Tulane University at New Orleans, and was graduated as president of his class, taking his medical degree in 1919. Doctor Douglas is one of the six physicians and surgeons who own and conduct the famous Highland Sanitarium at Shreveport. This is not only a hospital of genuine distinction, but provides the facilities for one of the most perfect working examples of the modern idea of group practice in medicine and surgery. Each one of the six physicians and surgeons is a specialist in his line, Doctor Douglas representing the specialty of internal medicine. He is a member of the Parish, Louisiana State and American Medical Associations. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 41, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.