Bio: William A. Boylston, M. D., Red River Parish Source: Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890 Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Feb 2000. ********************************************************** ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** ************************************************ ************************************************************ William A. Boylston, M.D., although born in Palmetto State, October 7, 1842, has been a resident of Louisiana since he was six years of age, his parents, W. W. and N. A. (Riley) Boylston, coming thither in that year. They were born in 1821 and 1819, and in the town of Coushatta the father died in the month of September, 1877, being still survived by his widow, who resides in this town. Dr. William A. Boylston, is the elder of two children born to his parents, the other member of the family being a sister, who was born in December, 1863. From 1848 to 1872 the family resided in Bienvelle Parish, but since that time have been residents of Coushatta. Dr. Boylston first attended the common schools, then finished his education in Mount Lebanon University, in which institution he remained until 1862, when he joined Company C, Ninth Louisiana Regiment, and at the battle of Winchester was wounded, and captured, in 1864, being exchanged at Savannah, Ga., he returned home and began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. J. C. Egan, at Mount Lebanon, and in the winter of 1869-70 he took his first course of lectures in the University of Virginia, and in 1870-71 in the Medical University of Maryland, graduation in March of the latter year. The following year he began practicing in Coushatta, and here has since continued the same with success, being also (since 1878) engaged in the drug business, his establishment being well appointed and conducted. He was united in marriage in January, 1887, to Miss Mini Lee, who was born in Mississippi in 1865, and to them three children have been born: Liz Lee, William H. and Mary. The Doctor if a Democrat of long standing, and is now the oldest physician, in point of residence, in the town of Coushatta. He belongs to the Silent Brotherhood Lodge No. 146, of the A. F. & A. M. # # #