1914 Biography - Robert C. Kemp

Kemp, Robert Christie, M. D. - Baton Rouge, La. - Is a graduate of the medical department of Tulane university of Louisiana, where he received his degree of M. D., with the class of 1900. During 1 year thereafter he served as an interne in the New Orleans Charity hospital, this being followed by 2-1/2 years' service as resident physician at the Louisiana Insane hospital, Jackson, La. He then located at Echo, La., where he remained in active general practice about 5 years. At the expiration of this period, in 1908, he located at Baton Rouge, in which city the doctor has built up a large and lucrative general practice and has gained the reputation of an able surgeon. He fills the position of surgeon for the Standard Oil Co., of Baton Rouge, and is surgeon for the Louisiana State university. Dr. Kemp is a member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical society, the Louisiana State Medical society, the American Medical association, the Medical Congress of Surgeons of North America, the Charity Hospital Alumni, the Masonic fraternity, being a Knight Templar Mason. In 1904, Dr. Kemp was married to Mrs. Margaret Wilson, nee Bonnet, and 3 children have been born to their union. Dr. Kemp was born in Yazoo county, Miss., Dec. 15, 1873, but was reared in the state of Louisiana and educated at Amite collegiate institute. After leaving school he obtained employment in a general store, where he gained valuable experience as a druggist, meanwhile studying medicine. His father, Dr. Jonathan Joseph Kemp, now located at Independence, La., has been a very successful practitioner for many years. The father is a veteran of the Civil war, in which he served as a private in Confederate cavalry, and as a prisoner of war was confined at Chicago for a portion of the time during the war. Dr. Jonathan Joseph Kemp, the father, was married to Miss Susan Richardson. Both the mother and father were born in Louisiana. Dr. Robert Christie Kemp enjoys a large popularity, both with his professional brethren and among those who come under his care as patients. As a citizen he is held in high esteem by the people among whom he lives and does the work of his life avocation. The doctor has taken no active part in politics further than to discharge the obligations of citizenship and aid in the selection of those delegated to administer the laws of the land in which his lot is cast. He is always found ready to do his part in any movement which is to carry the people forward to better things in their daily lives.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Louisiana: Comprising Sketches, edited by Alcee Fortier, published in 1914, volume 3, pages 230-231.