LASTRAPES, Wm., R., M. D.; St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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WM. ROBERTSON LASTRAPES, M.D., OPELOUSAS.--Dr. Lastrapes was born in
Washington, St. Landry parish, Louisiana, March 12, 1869.  His father, Henry
Lastrapes, is among the largest planters of St. Landry parish.

Dr. Lastrapes is the fourth in the order of their birth of eight living
children.  The Doctor, from his boyhood days, had the most excellent
educational facilities, having attended the best schools of the parish up to
the time he was thirteen years of age, when he entered Manhattan College, New
York City, graduating with the degree of A. B., 1887, at the age of eighteen
years, second in a class of twenty-five graduates.  The same year he entered
the medical school of Tulane University, New Orleans, graduating from this
institution in April, 1890.  He has practised [sic] in Opelousas about three
months, and accepting his reception by the people thus early in his
professional career as an index, his success is assured.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 58.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.