Dr. James A. Cruikshank, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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

DR. JAMES A. CRUIKSHANK is a practicing physician and planter of Rapides
Ward, and was born in this parish in 1839, being a son of Dr. Robert and
Martha E. (Texada) Cruikshank, who were born in Maryland and Louisiana, in
1810 and 1821, respectively.  The father was a graduate of Washington
College, Maryland, and also graduated from the medical department of the
university of that State, and after completing his course, came to Rapides
Parish, La., and devoted his time to the practicing of his profession, and
also to planting.  He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and died in
1880, his widow still surviving him, making her home with the subject of
this sketch, who graduated from the same literary and medical institutions
that his father had.  He has been one of the leading practitioners of
Rapides Parish since that time, and his success has been acknowledged by
all, his home being sixteen miles west of Alexandria.  During the Rebellion
he was assistant surgeon in the Crescent Regiment, and after his return
home, was married, in 1866, to Miss Isabella, daughter of Josias and
Elizabeth (Cruikshank) Ringgold, both of whom were born in Maryland, the
former being an extensive farmer in Kent County.  Mrs. Cruikshank died in
1883, and in 1890 the Doctor was married to Julia, a daughter of Frank and
Cecelia (McIntosh) Dunnam, both natives of the Creole State.  Dr.
Cruikshank has, for many years, served as a member of the school board, and
is now a member of the Parish Democratic Executive Committee.  Of his first
union two sons were born:  Robert J. and James A.