MOSS, Nathaniel P., M. D., Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
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NATHANIEL P. MOSS, M. D., LAFAYETTE.--Dr. Nathaniel P. Moss is a native of
Lafayette parish, born April 19, 1864.  He is the son of A. J. and Octave
(Cornay) Moss.

Dr. Moss received his education principally in the schools of Lafayette, and
from private tutorage.  By close application to his studies as a youth,
coupled with subsequent voluminous reading, the doctor has a finished
education.  He began his business life early, becoming a merchant at about the
age of eighteen in this place.  He left his interest in the hands of his
brothers, and, after having pursued the study of medicine under Dr. E. S.
Mudd, he entered the medical department of Tulane University, graduating in
the spring of 1887.  Upon the completion of his medical education he returned
to Lafayette and began practice, at the same time conducting the business
which he had previously established.  Though Dr. Moss has given his chief
attention to the practice of his profession, his business has also been under
his general management, and under it has flourished until it has assumed the
present mammoth proportions, the leading in Lafayette.  This has been
accomplished wholly by what Americans term " business push.''  Professionally
Dr. Moss ranks high.  Although his business is at present in a condition in
which he can not give his exclusive time to the practice of his chosen
profession, he proposes in the near future to be able to do so.  Dr. Moss is a
distinguished member of the State and Attakapas Medical Associations, and also
of the State Pharmaceutical Association.

He was united in marriage, November, 1887, with Miss Annie L. Parkerson,
daughter of J. G, and Elizabeth (Sterling) Parkerson.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
237-238.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.