Robert Bruce Wallace, M.D., Rapides Parish Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Robert Bruce Wallace, M. D., who is established in the successful practice of his profession in the City of Alexandria. metropolis and seat of government of Rapides Parish, is a native son of Louisiana, and of his Scotch lineage no further voucher is required than his personal and family names. Doctor Wallace was born at Natchitoches, Louisiana, January 6, 1886, and is the youngest of the six children born to George and Alice (Black) Wallace, the former of whom was born at Akron, Ohio, and the latter in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, she being now a resident of Biloxi. Mississippi. George Wallace was reared and educated in the old Buckeye State and in the South he gained experience in farm industry in Texas prior to coming to Louisiana, where he became the owner and operator of a fine plantation and where he passed the remainder of his life. His widow is a zealous communicant of the Catholic Church, in the faith of which she was reared, The earlier education of Doctor Wallace was gained at Natchitoches. and thereafter he continued his studies in turn in the Louisiana State University and the University of the South, in Tennessee. In preparing himself for his chosen profession he entered the medical department of Tulane University, New Orleans. and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1910. After thus receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine he further fortified himself for professional service, through the medium of two years of valuable clinical experience gained in service as an interne in Touro Infirmary. In college he was a member of Delta Tao Etta (literary fraternity) and Alpha Kappa Kappa (medical fraternity), and was president of the latter fraternity and was also president of his graduating class. Thereafter he was for twenty months engaged in general private practice in the state of Mississippi, and during the ensuing period of nearly two years he was established in practice at LeCompte, Rapides Parish Louisiana whence he removed to Alexandria, medical center of this Parish, in 1916. At Alexandria e was for a time a member of the professional firm of Doctors White, Peters & Wallace, and he is now associated in practice with Doctor Calhoun, as senior member of the firm of Wallace & Calhoun, which here controls a substantial and representative practice. Doctor Wallace gives special attention to the surgical department of professional service. He has done effective post-graduate work by availing himself of the advantages of the great and celebrated Mayo Brothers clinic, at Rochester, Minnesota, as well as leading clinics and hospitals in the cities of Chicago and Cleveland. He has membership in the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Eighth District Medical Society, and the Rapides Parish Medical Society. He has recently, in the summer of 1924, made application for membership in the American College of Surgeons. The Doctor is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, is a democrat in political adherency, his religious faith is that of the Baptist Church, and his wife is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The year 1914 marked the marriage of Doctor Wallace to Miss Dorothy James, daughter of Col. S. L. James, who was a gallant officer of the Confederate Army during the period of the Civil war. Doctor and Mrs. Wallace are popular figures in the representative social and cultural circles of their home city. They have one son, Robert Bruce, Jr. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 243, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.