William McGaughey Dollerhide, M. D., Richland Parish, Louisiana
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 William McGaughey Dollarhide, M. D.  The honored place he enjoys in 
the citizenship of West Carroll Parish, Doctor Dohlerhide has earned 
not only by his creditable work as a physician and surgeon, but also 
by the long service he rendered as parish school superintendent.

He is a native of northwestern Louisiana, born at Delhi in Richland 
Parish November 2, 1876.  He is a son of Richard Henry and Cynthia 
(Mcgaughey) Dollarhide.  His father was born in North Carolina, in 1828, 
came to Louisiana in 1856, and located at old Monticello, where he was a 
merchant before the war.  He served as parish treasurer during the war 
and in later years was engaged in the real estate business.  He died in 
1896.  He was twice married, having two sons by his first marriage.  
Cynthia Mcgaughey was his second wife, and she died in 1923, at the age 
of seventy-eight.

William M. Dollerhide grew up in the vicinity of Delhi and attended the 
excellent schools ~of that town.  Later he received his Bachelor of Science 
degree from the Louisiana State University in 1897, and taught school one 
year at Oak Grove, was for two years identified with the schools at Crowville 
in Franklin Parish and another two years at Lucknow.  Doctor Dollerhide studied 
medicine in the Kentucky University at Louisville, graduating M. D. in 1904.  
In subsequent years he took special post-graduate work in New Orleans and New York.  
He practiced medicine at Floyd and then removed to Oak Grove, where in connection 
with his medical practice he accepted the office of parish school superintendent.  
He was superintendent of the parish schools fifteen years, and for seven years of 
that the abandoned his medical practice altogether.  It was an era of remarkable 
progress in the extension of school facilities throughout the parish.  High schools 
were built at Oak Grove, Pioneer and Forest and additional improvements were made 
at nearly every rural school in the parish.  Doctor Dollerhide finally retired 
from the superintendent's office about the close of the World war and has since 
built up a splendid general practice as a physician and surgeon.

He married, in 1904, Miss Annie L. Armstrong, daughter of A. B. Armstrong.  
Doctor Dollerhide is chairman of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Oak Grove, is a Master Mason and a member of the Parish and Filth District 
Medical Societies.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 366-367, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.