Biography of 	Booth, Capt. Dr. A. R. East Baton Rouge, New Orleans & Caddo Parish, La
Submitted by	Suzanne Shoemaker January 1999

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Dr. A. R. Booth, physician and surgeon, Shreveport, La., is one of the 
popular physicians of Caddo Parish, does great credit to the profession 
and has a paying practice in the city and country.  His parents, A. N.  
and Susan A. (Reeder) Booth, were natives of Louisville, Ky., and 
Cincinnati, Ohio, respectively.  They emigrated to Louisiana in 1842, 
located in Baton Rouge, and here the father became a successful 
planter.

He was a representative citizen, was public spirited, and was at one 
time Secretary of the State.  He held a number of offices and figured 
quite prominently in politics.  He was one of the seven men in the 
parish who voted against secession.  His death occurred in 1867.  The 
mother had died in 1863.  Their family consisted of ten children--two 
by the first union and eight by the second.  The children by the first 
marriage were William S. (mayor of Baton Rouge, La.) and Andrew B. (who 
resides in New Orleans, La.).  Of the eight children born to the second 
union there are only four besides our subject now living--Jewett and 
three sisters.  Dr. A. R. Booth was born in East Baton Rouge in 
January, 1844, and grew to manhood on his father's plantation.  He was 
educated at the Kentucky University at Lexington, and began the study 
of medicine at quite an early age.  In 1874 he graduated at the 
University of Louisville in a class of 113 graduates and took the medal 
for general proficiency.  He obtained his position in opposition to the 
faculty's set views on the subject of yellow fever, which was the 
subject of the Doctor's thesis.  In March, 1874, he began practicing at 
Shreveport, La., and here he has since resided.  In a very short time 
he had built up a large and lucrative practice and is still enjoying 
the same.  He was health officer from 1874 to 1878, and was appointed 
by Gov. McEnery coroner of Caddo Parish to fill an unexpired term.  He 
is a member of the State Medical Association. also Shreveport Medical 
Society and American Society of Microscopists.  He was married in 1874, 
to Miss Mattie C., daughter of Prof. Samuel G. Mullins, of Louisville, 
Ky., and the fruits of this union have been two living children--Mamie 
and Susie.
  
Socially the Doctor is a member of the K. of H., the A. O. U. W., K. of 
P. and in the latter order he is a past grand chancellor and was a 
supreme representative for two terms.  For four years he was medical 
examiner-in-chief of the order.  He has always taken a deep interest in 
his societies and has devoted a great deal of his time to them.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Booth are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The 
Doctor is now filling by appointment from the Hon. Secretary of the 
Treasury, the office of assistant army surgeon, Marine Hospital 
service, at the port of Shreveport.

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890