Biography of 	WALTHER, Henry W. E., M..D., Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller April 1998

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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 453-454.  Edited
by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Walther, Henry Wellman Emile, M. D., of New Orleans, was born Sept. 7,
1888, in New Orleans, the son of Otto Walther, native of Jena, Germany, and
Georgiana Brown Walther, of New Orleans.  Dr. Walther's father came to New
Orleans when a young man, residing in that city until about 1 year ago,
when he returned to his native land.  He was married in New Orleans and was
engaged in business as contractor and fire insurance adjuster for many
years.  His wife's father, James Brown, was a soldier in the Confederate
army, serving in the beginning of the war with the "90-day men," Co. B,
Confederate guards Response, and later was shot by Union soldiers while
trying to escape after his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to the
United States.  The subject of this sketch received his early education in
the public schools of New Orleans and later prepared for the university at
the academic department of Soulé college, graduating from this institution
in 1906.  He then entered the medical department of the Tulane university
of Louisiana, and received his M. D. degree in 1910.  While a student at
the university he served on the faculty as demonstrator in the laboratory
of histology under Prof. Gustav Mann and he held this position until his
senior year.  After serving as interne in the United States marine
hospital, Dr. Walther began the practice of his profession in New Orleans.
In 1912 he was appointed clinical assistant in genito-urinary and venereal
diseases in the Tulane university school of medicine; a position he still
holds.  He is permanent secretary-treasurer of the medical class of '10,
Tulane, having been elected to that place for life.  Dr. Walther is a
member of the Orleans Parish Medical society, Louisiana State Medical
society, Southern Medical association, Mississippi Valley Medical
association, American Medical association and American Urological
association; also affiliated with Phi Beta Pi Medical fraternity, having
been elected thrice a national officer, twice supreme southern practor, and
once supreme editor of the Phi Beta Pi Quarterly.  The doctor was married,
March 12, 1912, to Miss Lilian Helen Cormier, daughter of Charles E.
Cormier, of New Orleans.  The records of the Walther family show that the
doctor's paternal great-grandfather, Johann Paul Wilhelm Walther, served as
Castellan of the Palace of the Grand-Duke of Saxony in Jena, Germany; his
paternal grandfather, Louis Walther, was, for 35 years,
Universitäts-Depositor and Oberpedell to the University of Jena, in
Germany.  Dr. Walther is limiting his practice to surgery of ihe
genito-urinary system.