Walter J. Gill, D. D. S.; Avoyelles, then Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Walter J. Gill, D. D. S.  While the professional career of Dr. Walter 
J. Gill has not been as extensive as some of time others which are 
presented in this volume, he has, through hard and conscientious 
work and a thorough knowledge of his calling, advanced to a prominent 
place within the space of a few years, and is now accounted a reliable 
and successful dental practitioner.  Since his arrival at Alexandria, 
his present field of practice, in 1923, he has impressed his fellow
citizens with his ability and mastery of his vocation, with the 
result that he has built up a lucrative Professional business.

Doctor Gill was born at Evergreen, Louisiana, February 17, 1898, and 
is a son of T. J. and Corella (Davenport) Gill.  His grandparents 
were pioneer residents of Louisiana, and his paternal grandfather, 
T. J. Gill, who served as a soldier of the Confederacy during the 
war between the states, lived to the unusual age of ninety-four years.  
T. J. Gill, father of Walter J. Gill, was born in Louisiana, where 
he married Corella Davenport, a native of New Hampshire.  They became 
the parents of three children:  Ethel Lee, an active worker in the 
Methodist Church, and the wife of Y. A. Monnger, a merchant at 
Evergreen, Louisiana;  Henry Claude, who is engaged in the automobile 
business at Alexandria; and  Walter J., of this review.  T. J. Gill 
is a successful agriculturist of Avoyelles Parish, and a leading 
democrat of his community.  His wife has been active in the movements 
fostered by the Methodist Church.

Walter J. Gill received his preliminary educational training in time 
public schools at Evergreen, and after his graduation from the high 
school took two years of pre-medical work at the Louisiana State 
University.  Finally he entered Tulane University, New Orleans, from 
which he was graduated in dentistry with the class of 1921, receiving 
the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery.  In the same year he commenced 
practice at Haynesville, but in 1923 changed his residence to Alexandria, 
where he occupies well appointed offices in the Guaranty Bank Building.  
He has built up an excellent practice and has formed many profitable 
friendships and connections.

Doctor Gill is unmarried.  He belongs to the Methodist Church and to 
the Psi Omega and Kappa Alpha fraternities, and is a Scottish Rite 
Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine.  In politics he is a democrat.  
During the World war he joined the Coast Artillery, and at the time 
of the close of the war was attending the Officers' Training School 
at Fortress Monroe.

NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white photograph 
of the subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 229-230, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and 
New York, 1925.