M. W. Wooten, M. D., Richland Parish, Louisiana
Submitter: Frances Ball Turner




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 History of Louisiana by Henry Chambers
Vol. II, pg. 312

M. W. Wooten, M.D.  A very able physician and surgeon, Doctor Wooten has
rendered his chief professional service in the community of Mangham in
Richland Parish, where he has spent the greater part of twenty years in
practice.

Doctor Wooten was born in Lee County, Mississippi, June 30, 1879, son of
B.F. and Adeline (Dorrell) Wooten, his father having been a boy when the
Wooten family moved to Lee County, Mississippi.  He grew up there, and when
the war came on entered the Confederate army as a lieutenant and gave four
years of his young manhood to the cause.  He was in the battle of Shiloh
and in much of the heavy fighting in Virginia and also in the Gettysburg
campaign.  He was with Lee's army at Appomattox.  After the war he devoted
his attention to planting in Mississippi, and died in 1904.  He was a
member of the Baptist Church and a Mason.  There were three children:  Mrs.
Minnie Orr and Mrs. Bernice Dodson, both of Mississippi, and Dr. M. W.
Wooten.

Dr. M. W. Wooten acquired his academic education in the Mississippi College
at Kosciusko, took his preliminary medical work in the University of
Nashville, and was graduated M.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1902.
Since his graduation scarcely a year passed without his doing some
post-graduate or  keeping in touch with the progress of his profession
through attending conventions and clinics.  After graduating he located at
Mangham, Louisiana, and has been steadily engaged in practice in that
community except for five years, 1913-1917, when he was engaged in
laboratory work at San Antonio, Texas.

Doctor Wooten married Miss Maude E. Windsor, a native of Tennessee.   She
finished her education at Ruston, Louisiana.  Doctor and Mrs. Wooten have
two daughters:  Edith and Marjorie.  The Doctor and wife are members of the
Methodist Church.  He belongs to the various medical societies, and he took
all his Masonic work at San Antonio, Texas, being a member of the Alamo
Lodge of Masons there and hast attained the thirty-second degree in the
Scottish Rite.  Doctor Wooten has planting interests in Louisiana, and is a
director in the Mangham Street Bank.