ALEXANDER P. BREDA, M.D., Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Printing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890



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ALEXANDER P. BREDA, M.D.
Physician & Surgeon

Among the many practitioners of the "healing art" in Natchitoches Parish,
deserving of special mention is Dr. Breda, who was born in Natchitoches on
December 19, 1837, and who is a son of Dr. John P. and Marie Helmina
(Dranguet) Breda.  Dr. Breda is the eldest of a numerous family, and in
addition to a common school education he attended the Western Military
Institute at Drennon Springs, Henry County, Ky.  This school was broken up in
1853 from yellow fever, and Dr. Breda returned home.  He began the study of
medicine in 1855 under the dictation of his father, and in 1859 he graduated
from the medical department of that far famed and well known institution of
learning, the University of Louisiana.  He began at once the practice of his
profession in Natchitoches, and here he has since continue.

In 1862 he was filled with a natural desire to assist the Confederacy and
enlisted in Company "C," Second Louisiana Cavalry, under Col. W. G. Vincent,
and was detailed as medical assistant.  Later he was commissioned assistant
surgeon of the Seventh Louisiana Cavalry, and thus continued until the close
of the war.  He was formerly an Old Line Whig, and voted with that party until
1856, and since 1868 he has been an ardent Republican.  He is a member of the
Masonic fraternity.

Dr. Breda has been a resident of this parish for fifty three years, and thirty
one years of that time he has practiced his profession.  He is a physician of
recognized ability and a well posted man.