Bio: Dr. Thomas S. Parham, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===Dr. Thomas S. Parham, physician, Cotton Valley, La.  Dr. Parham is a 
physician of acknowledged ability, and is ever found at the bedside 
of the suffering and afflicted.  He was originally from Georgia, his 
birth occurring in Meriwether County, in 1830, and was the youngest 
of a family of three children: James B., and Elizabeth (now Mrs. K. C. 
Patton, of Webster Parish).  The father, Mat A. Parham, was born in 
Baldwin County, Ga., in 1803, and was a son of _____ Parham, who was 
a native of the Old Dominion, and a direct descendant of English 
parents.  Mary A. Cox, the mother of our subject, is a native of 
Georgia.  Dr. Thomas S. Parham was married in 1854 to Miss Susan J. 
McGowan, of DeSoto County, Miss., and in 1861 he and family came to 
Webster Par., Louisiana.  In 1862 Dr. Parham enlisted in the Twenty-eighth 
Louisiana Regiment, but was discharged on account of disability.  He 
attended Louisville Medical College, Kentucky, in 1852, and for thirty-
eight years has given his undivided attention to the relief of 
suffering humanity.  He is well known throughout this section, and in 
the care and management of cases which have come under his attention 
he has been remarkably successful.  He is the father of four 
interesting children: Harry L., Minnie, Sarah and Louie B.  Mrs. 
Parham is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The Doctor 
was formerly an old-line Whig, but since the war has been a close 
adherent to the Democratic party.