Edward K. Hirsch, M. D., Natchez, MS., then E. Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Edward K. Hirsch, M. D., F. A. C. S., has achieved within the period of his professional
activities in the City of Baton Rouge a distinct prestige as one of the representative
physicians and surgeons of the younger generation in East Baton Rouge Parish.  He has here been
established in successful urological practice since the year 1921, and his offices are
maintained at 22-28 Reymomd Building, on Third Street.

Doctor Hirsch was born in the City of Natchez, Mississippi, and the date of his nativity was
January 9, 1892. He is a son of Jacob Hirsch, who was born in Altdorf, Germany, in the year
1833, and whose death occurred at Monroe, Louisiana, August 15, 1922.  Jacob Hirsch was about
fifteen years of age when he came from his native land to the United States, and as a young man
he engaged in the general merchandise business at Jonesville, Louisiana.  Later he followed the
same line of enterprise in the City of Natchez, Mississippi, and in 1912 he removed to Monroe,
judicial center of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, in which city he thereafter continued to be a
leading merchant and highly esteemed citizen until his death.  He was a loyal supporter of the
cause of the democratic party, and while a resident of Natchez, Mississippi, he there gave
effective service as a member of the City Council.  His widow, whose maiden name was Carrie
Schlenker and who was born at Jonesville, Louisiana, in the year 1862, died September 17, 1924,
at Monroe, Louisiana.  Flora, eldest of the children, is the wife of Jonas Selig, who is a
prosperous merchant at Monroe; Rowena is the wife of Abe Arent, who is there engaged in the real
estate business Dr.  David I., a physician and surgeon engaged in practice at Monroe, was
commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army at the time of
the World war and with his command was in service overseas about eighteen months;  Leah is the
wife of Isaac Moyse, a civil engineer. and they reside at Baton Rouge; and Dr. Edward K.. of
this review, is the youngest of the number.

Dr. Edward K. Hirsch gained his earlier education by attending a school conducted at Natchez by
one of the Catholic brotherhoods, and later was for one year a student in Jefferson College at
Convent, Louisiana.  In 1914 he was graduated from the medical department of Tulane University.
and after thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he returned to his native City of
Natchez and served one year as an interne in the Natchez Hospital then went to the West, and
after having been engaged in the successful practice of his profession six years at Superior,
Nebraska, he returned to Louisiana and established his residence in Baton Rouge in 1921.  Here
his ability and personality have gained to him a substantial and representative practice.  The
Doctor holds membership in the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society, the Louisiana State
Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association and the American Medical Association, and is a
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.  He is affiliated with Baton Rouge Lodge No. 372,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his wife hold membership in the Jewish Temple in
their home city.  He became a member of the Lodge of Elks at Galveston, Texas, and his name
still remains on its membership rolls, he having resided in the Lone Star State a comparatively
short time, in Baton Rouge the Doctor owns and occupies an attractive residence in Delphine
Place.

September 21, 1915, recorded the marriage of Doctor Hirsch and Miss Stella Moyse, daughter of
Simon and Flora (Joseph) Moyse, of Baton Rouge, where Mr. Moyse is a prominent merchant.  Doctor
and Mrs. Hirsch have one daughter, Edwena, born December 16, 1920.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 106, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The American
Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.