Claudius Emmett MCConnell,M.D., Mangham, Richland Parish Louisiana
submitted by Patricia McConnell Taylor

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Taken from A HISTORY OF LOUISIANA by Henry Chambers, Vol 111. Publishers 
The American Historical Society, Inc. Chicago and New York...1925

Claudius Emmett McConnell, M.D.... For fifteen years engaged 
in the practice of medicine at Mangham. Doctor McConnell has 
been one of the earnest and hard working members of his profession 
in that section of the state and his abilities have well won him 
the respect and confidence of the people among whom he works and 
whom he has served. 
Doctor McConnell was born at Lower Peachtree, Alabama, December 
22, 1884, son on Nathaniel J. McConnell and Cornelia (Foxworth) McConnell.  
His father was in the Confederate army four years, 
having been wounded at the battles of Chickamauga and Seven Pines 
and was in the armies under Jackson and Johnston. After the war 
for many years he was a traveling salesman, selling dry goods and harness 
for Mobile wholesale houses.  Since 1915 he and his wife 
have lived at Mangham with their son, Doctor McConnell, the father 
now aged eighty-seven and the mother seventy-six.  They are 
Methodists and he is a Mason.  There are twelve living children, 
the six sons being: N. J. Jr., present clerk of courts of Richland Parish; 
L. L. McConnell a cotton buyer at Mangham; Claudius E; M.K., 
a bookkeeper for the Humble Mercantile Company; and M.D., a 
pharmacist at Mangham. 
Claudius Emmett McConnell was reared at Lower Peachtree, Alabama, obtained 
his preliminary education there and after coming to 
Louisiana was similarly employed at Rayville, Charlieville and 
Mangham.  He overcame and solved a number of financial difficulties 
in the way of fitting himself for a professional career. When he entered 
the school of medicine in the University of Alabama at 
Mobile, he had only thirty-five dollars on actual money.  He paid 
his way through the school by working as a janitor, assistant 
embalmer and in other capacities, making every moment and every 
penny count.  He was graduated M.D. in 1910 and at once returned to Mangham 
and from the first has had a heavy general practice.  In 
the early years eh went about over the rural districts on horseback.  He is 
a member of the Parish, District, State and America Medical Associations. 
Doctor McConnell has acquired some valuable planting interest, 
owning some seven or eight hundred acres of farm land.  He is a 
steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and is a Royal 
Arch Mason, Knights of Pythias and is a democrat in politics.  He married in 
1910 the year he engaged in medical practice, Miss Mary Stokes, daughter of 
James Stokes and niece of C. M. Noble.  They 
have three children:  James Emmette, Claude Stokes and Mary 
Virginia.