St Landry County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Toler, Thomas January 16, 1873 - 
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Source: A History of Louisiana, v.3, pp. 5-6
Author: Henry E. Chambers

 THOMAS MAXWELL TOLER, M. D. In his native state of Mississippi, Doctor Toler 
began the practice of medicine more than a quarter of a century ago. He came to 
Crowley, Louisiana, in 1905, and during the World war was an army surgeon. His 
attainments rank him as one of the surgeons of assured ability in the state. 
For the past two years he has practiced with home at Washington in St. Landry 
Parish.

	Doctor Toler was born at Gloster, in Amite County, Mississippi, January 
16, 1873, son of William Franklin and Julia M. (Robinson) Toler. His mother was 
the only daughter of Hon. William T. Robinson, a distinguished attorney and 
citizen who lived at Liberty, Mississippi. William Franklin Toler was a soldier 
in the Confederate army, and after the war a successful planter. He took a 
prominent part in the Farmers’ Alliance movement during the ‘80s and ‘90s, and 
was always a staunch prohibitionist, a man of real influence in the affairs of 
his community. He died in 1914, at the age of sixty-eight.

	Thomas Maxwell Toler grew up on a plantation, attending common schools 
there, and finished his early training in the Iuka, Mississippi, Normal School. 
For seven years he was a teacher in the common schools of Amite County, and 
took his early medical course at Louisville, Kentucky. As an undergraduate, 
after passing the Mississippi State Medical Board of Examiners, he practiced at 
Gillsburg until 1902. He then entered the Tulane University Medical School at 
New Orleans, completing his course and taking his degree in medicine in 1903. 
Following that he continued practice at Gillsburg until 1905, in which year, on 
coming to Louisiana. he located at Crowley, and in 1910 moved to Vivian, 
Louisiana. He remained at Vivian, carrying on a general practice, until 1917.

	On July 31, 1917, Doctor Toler was commissioned a first lieutenant in 
the Army Medical Corps,and was first ordered for service to Fort Oglethorpe, 
Georgia. Subsequently he was in the Boston, Massachusetts, City Hospital; the 
Camp Devens (Mass.) Base Hospital; was senior surgeon in the Durham, New 
Hampshire, Post Hospital, and after being promoted to the rank of captain, 
received his honorable discharge at Fort Ethan Allen, in Vermont, on December 
7, 1918.

	Following his war service, Doctor Toler returned to Louisiana and at 
Alexandria was associated with Dr. John L. Wilson in the practice of surgery. 
He then took up the work of an industrial surgeon, with the Industrial Lumber 
Company at Elizabeth, Louisiana. Later having moved to Colorado be became 
surgeon in the Greeley City Hospital at Greeley, Colorado, and in January, 
1922, became surgeon to the Miners’ Union Hospital at Silverton, Colorado. 
Returning to Louisiana, Doctor Toler since September, 1923, has been engaged in 
a general surgical and medical practice at Washington, and is also surgeon to 
St. Rita’s infirmary at Opelousas. He belongs to the County, State and American 
Medical Associations. Doctor Toler is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World 
and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a Presbyterian. His 
vacations are usually spent in hunting and fishing trips.

	He married, September 17, 1899, Miss Myrtes E. Newman, of McComb, 
Mississippi. She died at Crowley, Louisiana, February 14, 1908, and of the 
three children of the union one is now living: Davis Maxwell, a musician at 
Dallas, Texas, with the Hunts Imperial Orchestra. Doctor Toler married for his 
second wife Miss Alice Voltz, of Washington, Louisiana, September 17, 1918. She 
is a graduate of the Louisiana State Normal School at Natchitoches, and before 
her marriage taught in the public schools at Crowley, Washington and Rayne. 
Doctor and Mrs. Toler have two children: Thomas Maxwell, Jr., born in Denver, 
Colorado, October 28, 1922, and William Franklin, horn in Washington, 
Louisiana, July

23, 1924.

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