Bio: Dr. George Franklin Wilson, Bienville Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by Kay Thompson Brown
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GEORGE FRANKLIN WILSON M.D.
Dr. George Franklin Wilson, physician and surgeon, Sparta, La., is one of
the class of men singled out by nature to show what a man can do when be sets
his mind upon accomplishing a certain object. He is a self-made man, and what
he has won in the way of this world's goods, and personal achievements is
wholly due to his own good fighting qualities. He secured a good practical
education in the common schools of Alabama (his birth occurring in Butler,
Choctaw County, of that State on October 4, 1861), and he first studied
medicine under his uncle, Dr. H. F. Moody, who was one of the most successful
and eminent physicians in that part of Alabama, continuing with him two years.
He then entered the Alabama Medical College, at Mobile in 1885, and graduated
from the same on March 29, 1889. As before inferred, he started out in life
at the foot of the ladder and without my visible means of obtaining his
education. In order to accomplish the desire of his life he labored on the
farm for $10 per month in order to pursue his studies, and hy his indomitable
will, energy and determination he finally graduated, or finished his education
with credit to himself and friends. Directly afterward he commenced the
practice of medicine at Sparta, La. (1889), and here he resides at the present
time. He has established a lucrative and increasing practice, and has the full
confidence of his patrons and the community.
On December 26, 1889, Miss Lorena Mills, a native of Alabama, horn in 1866,
became his wife. The Doctor is a stanch Democrat, and has never been an ultra
politician. He has aimed to support men whose honesty and integrity are
unquestioned. and as deemed best. He is a public-spirited citizen, and does
all in his power to advance the interests of his people and parish. He is a
Master Mason and a member of Sparta Lodge No. 108. The Doctor and his
estimable wife are members of tire Methodist Episcopal Church South, and they
are deeply interested in Sunday-school work. They have always contributed
liberally of their means to all benevolent purposes, which were worthy of
their consideration. The Doctor, as a professional man, has kept thoroughly
posted in his medical profession as well as the current topics of the day, and
it is a principle of his to perfect his work and calling more and more.
Since his residence in Sparta be has had phenomenal success in several
departments of his practice. He is an aspiring young gentleman, and expects to
take a post graduate course at Bellevue Medical College, at New York City,
which is the ne plus ultra of all aspiring physicians and surgeons. He and
Mrs. Wilson expect to make their home in Bienville Parish, where the Doctor is
held in highest esteem, not only on account of his successful career as a
physician, but for his social qualities.
The Doctor's parents, John Thomas and Martha C. (Moody) Wilson. are natives of
Alabama, and are now residents of that state. The father is a successful
farmer, has been identified with the parish's interests as commissioner, and
is now about fifty-two years of age. The mother is also living and is forty-
nine years of age. She was well educated in Judson Female College, at Marion,
Ala. Of the four children born to their union--three sons and one daughter
Dr. Wilson is the eldest in order of birth, William M. (resides in Alabama,
and is engaged in tilling the soil), Roberta (died at the age of sixteen
years), and Thomas Moody (is nine years of age and is residing in Alabama).