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W. S. BORAH, M.D., BALDWIN. -- Dr. W. S. Borah, of St. Mary parish, was born in
Fairfield, Illinois, February 18, 1849. He is the son of William N. and Eliza
(West) Borah, who were also natives of Illinois.
W. S. Borah was educated
in the public schools until he reached the age of eighteen years, when he was
sent to Michigan, where he attended a commercial college for a short period. He
then returned to Illinois where he married Miss Martha Creighton, a daughter of
John M. and Mary Ann (Crews) Creighton, a native of Illinois, born June 22,
1851. Dr. Borah and wife became the parents of four children, three sons and one
daughter, viz: Carrie Lee, Ernest L., Tom G., William C.
Dr. Borah
engaged in agricultural pursuits in Illinois for a year but desiring to engage
in commercial business of some character he sold his farm and entered the grain
business, which he followed for three years but meeting with heavy losses was
obliged to retire from that pursuit. He then determined to study medicine, and
for a year and a half read medicine under a preceptor and opened practice in
Arkansas, where he met with excellent success for three years, at the end of
which time he emigrated to Louisiana, where he had long desired to make his
home. He practiced medicine here and still has a very remunerative practice.
When the Doctor came to Louisiana his circumstances were not affluent, but he
now owns a drug store at Baldwin and carries a stock of six hundred dollars. He
is also proprietor of a livery stable in which he has interested fifteen hundred
dollars. In these two businesses he is in co-partnership with his brother. Dr.
Borah is an energetic business man.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, published in 1891, Biographical Section, page 359.
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