CLARK, L. Oran, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 505-506.  Edited
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.



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Clark, L. Oran, M. D., health officer of Lafayette City, parish of
Lafayette, La.; secretary of the Lafayette Parish Medical society, and of
the Attakapas Clinical society; one of the founders and a director of the
Lafayette sanitarium; medical examiner for a number of large insurance
companies, is a prominent practitioner of medicine and surgery in
southwestern Louisiana.  The Clark family is originally from St. Landry
parish, in which Valentine Clark, paternal grandfather of Dr. L. Oran
Clark, was a planter.  His son, Dr. A. O. Clark, also a native of St.
Landry parish, and father of the subject of this sketch, removed to the
parish of Lafayette at the age of 20, entered Tulane medical department in
1885, graduated in 1887, and began the practice of his profession at Ridge,
Lafayette parish, where he is still residing.  He married Miss Alice
Lambert, of St. Landry parish, and of their union, 5 children were born, of
which two were boys, who became physicians.  Twelve relatives of the Clark
family embraced the profession of medicine.  L. Oran Clark was educated in
the public schools, and at Centenary college, Jackson, La., graduating in
1902, with the degree of bachelor of science.  He matriculated in 1902 in
the medical department of Tulane university, New Orleans, and in 1905
received his diploma.  After graduating, Dr. Clark went to Shreveport, and
served on the interne staff of the Shreveport Charity hospital.  Coming
back to Lafayette, he opened an office as general practitioner, giving,
however, special attention to surgical cases, which he treats at the
Lafayette sanitarium.  Dr. Clark has served as deputy coroner of Lafayette
parish, and is now health officer. Besides his secretaryship of the parish,
and the Attakapas clinical societies, he is member of the Louisiana State
Medical society, the Southern and the American Medical associations; is
ex-vice president of the senior class, medical department of Tulane, 1905;
is affiliated with the Phi Chi fraternity (the Southern Medical) ; the
Kappa Alpha fraternity, the Elks and K. of P.  In religion he is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and politically, supports the
democratic party.  In the Lafayette Motor Car Co., Dr. Clark is a
stockholder and director.  He married, in 1902, Miss Beatrice Skipwith,
daughter of Henry Skipwith, of Jackson, La.