Bio: MIDDLETON, James M., M. D., Sinkinsville, AL., then Sabine Parish,

Louisiana

Source

Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and

Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 641-642.  Edited by Alcée

Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.



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JAMES M. MIDDLETON MD



Middleton, James M., M. D.--This prominent and well-known member of the

medical profession, at Many, La., was born in Sinkinsville, Ala., Sept. 2,

1866; a son of John and Eliza (Fore) Middleton, both of Sinkinsville.  His

father, a prosperous planter, at the outbreak of the great Civil war enlisted

in a company of Alabama volunteers, and fought valiantly throughout the war

for the cause of the Confederacy.  After the surrender he returned to his

farm, remaining there until his death in 1904.  His beloved wife passed away

in 1883, leaving 7 children, of which the subject of this biography is the

youngest.  He secured his primary education in the schools of his locality,

after which he matriculated in the Southern university, at Greensboro, Ala.,

and later entered Vanderbilt university, at Nashville, Tenn., where he

graduated in medicine in the class of 1890.  On leaving the university he at

once began the practice of his profession at Many, La., where he has since

remained and established an excellent practice.  He is a member of the parish

and Louisiana State Medical societies, American Medical association, and is

affiliated fraternally with the Masonic order.  He is a devout member of the

Methodist church at Many, of which he has been steward for 19 years.  He has

also served as coroner at Many for 3 terms.  In a business way Dr. Middleton

is a stockholder and vice-president of the Sabine State bank, a stockholder in

the Red River Valley Bank & Trust Co. of Shreveport, of the Bankers' Trust Co.

at Houston, Tex.; the Western Casualty Co., Phoenix, Ariz., and the Louisiana

State Life Insurance Co., of which he is medical director.  Jan. 14, 1891, he

was united in marriage to Miss Lee L., a daughter of J. F. and Maggie (Smart)

Smith, of Sabine parish.  Mrs. Middleton passed away in 1911, leaving 7

children, namely:  Fisher, a law student at Louisiana State university; 

Lilburne, at Ward-Belmont college, Nashville, Tenn.;  James M., at Bellbuckle,

Tenn., attending school;  Marguerite,  Selby,  Ruth and  Lella, at home.



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