Houston Carlisle Chambers, M. D.; Greene Co., AL., then Richland Parish, Louisiana
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 Houston Carlisle Chambers, M, D. Since 1911 engaged in the practice 
of medicine and surgery in Richland Parish, Doctor Chambers is a graduate 
in medicine from the University of Alabama, and came to Louisiana to take 
up his professional work soon after getting his diploma.

Doctor Chambers was born at Eutaw, in Greene County, Alabama, September 3, 
1888, son of Rufus C1ya and Marcella N. (Nix) Chambers, still living at Eutaw, 
his father aged seventy-seven and his mother seventy-two.  R. C. Chambers, 
though too young for duty as a soldier, was with the Confederate army on 
various occasions during the war, and during his active career followed 
farming and merchandising.  He is a Mason and Baptist, and his wife a Baptist.  
They had six children, four sons:  James A., superintendent of the Pinkerton 
Detective Agency, at Dallas, Texas;  Thomas H., a real estate man at Florence, 
Alabama;  Dr. Houston C.; and  Elisha T., who was in the navy service at 
Portsmouth and Norfolk, Virginia, during the World war, owns the homestead 
farm and also operates a cotton gin and sawmill.

Houston C. Chambers acquired a liberal education, graduating with the Bachelor 
of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Alabama in 1900.  
He took his medical course in the medical department at the University of Mobile, 
graduating in 1911.  In 1917 he pursued a post-graduate course of study at Tulane 
University, and the day after leaving there entered the Army Medical Corps with a 
Commission as first lieutenant.  He was assigned duty at Kelley Field, in 
San Antonio, Texas, being attached to the Six Hundred and Seventh Air Squadron, 
and from Texas was sent to Fort Wayne, at Detroit, Michigan, where he was on 
hospital duty, and received his honorable discharge at St. Paul.  Doctor Chambers 
in 1911 established his home and practice at Girard, in Richland Parish, and after 
his war service located at Rayville.  For several years e practiced in a district 
practically without roads, taking all his calls on horseback.  For three years he 
served as parish health officer, and is a member of the District and State Medical 
societies and the Southern and American Medical associations.  Fraternally he is 
affiliated with McGuire Lodge No. 209, Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights 
Templar Commandery at Monroe, El Karubah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Shreveport, 
the Knights of Pythias, and is a deacon in the Baptist Church.

He married Miss Lila Mae Wade, daughter of Allerdeen Wade of Mobile, Alabama.  She 
finished her education in the Barton Academy at Mobile.  They have four children:  
Houston C. Jr.,  Rufus Wade,  Lila Mac and  Una Lee.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 255, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by The 
American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.