MUDD, F. S., M. D., Washington County, KY., then Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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F. S. MUDD, M. D., LAFAYETTE.--Dr. Mudd was born in Washington county,
Kentucky, March 12, 1829.  He is the son of John D. and Louisa (Robertson)
Mudd, the former a native of Maryland, the latter of Kentucky.  The family of
our subject's mother are of Scotch-Irish descent.  John D. Mudd was a farmer
in Kentucky during the whole of his life.  He died in 1832.  Dr. Mudd's mother
died in 1841.

F. S. Mudd received his primary education in the schools of his locality and
completed his literary course in St. Rose College, Springfield, Kentucky. 
Shortly after leaving college he began the study of medicine under John H.
Polin, of Springfield. Subsequent to this he pursued a course in the medical
school of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.  In 1850 he removed to
Vermilion parish, where he practised [sic] his profession for a period of
seven years, when he removed to Lafayette, and has since practised at that
place.  In 1882-1883, wishing to refresh himself in his medical studies, he
took a course in the medical department of the Tulane University, from which
institution he received his diploma.  Dr. Mudd has been eminently successful
as a practitioner and has for many years stood at the head of his profession. 
He is a member of both the State and Attakapas associations.  He was twice
married--first, in 1854, to Miss S. T. Rice, and in 1872 to Miss Martha Greig. 
The doctor is a devoted Presbyterian and an elder of that church.  He is a
member of the F. & A. M., Hope Lodge, No. 145; also of Hope Chapter, No. 32. 
Until its dissolution he was a member of the Girard Commandery.

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