FOSTER, Paul, M. D., Avoyelles then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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PAUL FOSTER, M. D., OPELOUSAS.--Dr. Foster is a native of Louisiana, born in
Avoyelles parish, December 11, 857.  His father was Dr. David Walker Foster,
and his mother Malissa (Sperlack) Foster; the former a native of Tennessee,
born about 1824, the latter a native of Mississippi, born in 1839.

The subject of our sketch is one of a family of twelve children, five sons and
seven daughters, of whom six are now living.  The doctor's educational
advantages during his boyhood days were quite limited.  Immediately after the
war his father emigrated to Central America, where he remained for a short
period, endeavoring to establish a colony in British Honduras.  Returning to
the United States, he stopped at New Orleans, from thence removing to Houston,
Texas, and from thence to Harrisburg, thence back to  Opelousas. He
subsequently located at Ville Platte, where he remained for about four years,
when he removed to his present location.  At the age of sixteen years our
subject began the study of medicine in his father's office, and at the age of
nineteen matriculated in the medical department of the University of
Louisville, graduating at the age of twenty-one.  He began the practice of his
profession in association with his father at Plaquemine Ridge, where he
remained for about two years, when he removed to his present location.  In the
winter of 1884 he purchased a small prairie plantation to which he has since
added, until he now has quite a nice plantation.  In 1881 the Doctor married
Miss Emma Daniel, a native of St. Landry, and daughter of J. W. and Mary E.
Daniel, the former a native of Alabama and the latter of Mississippi.  To them
have been born two children, Robert and Marion H.  From the time Dr. Foster
began his practice, in 1882, he as had a large practice, and at the present
time has as much as he can attend to.  Both the Doctor and his wife are devout
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a steward.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 40.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.