Sterling, Lewis G.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 418. Edited by Alc‚e Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Stirling, Lewis Grey, M. D., Baton Rouge, La., was born in West Feliciana parish, La., Feb. 8, 1862, and is a son of Ruffin G. and Catherine (Leake) Stirling. Both parents were born in the State of Louisiana, where the father followed the double vocation of a planter and physician. His death occurred in 1881, at the age of 54 years. The father was a son of Lewis Stirling, who was prominent as a planter in his time, and related to well known and highly esteemed families, both paternally and maternally. Dr. L. G. Stirling passed his boyhood and youth at the plantation home of his parents in West Feliciana parish. His educational advantages in youth were limited, but by persistent application to his books he gained a good educational foundation, and is possessed of a good academic education, but is a genuinely self-educated man. He graduated in medicine from Tulane university of Louisiana, with the class of 1894, with the degree of M. D., and shortly afterward he located at Baton Rouge, where he has continued in the general practice of his profession with gratifying and ever increasing success and popularity through the past twenty years. He is affiliated with the medical society of his parish and is a member of the Louisiana State Medical society, and the American Medical association. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a Chapter Degree Mason. In 1896, Dr. Stirling was medical to Miss Alma Mansur, of East Baton Rouge parish. Dr. and Mrs. Stirling have 2 daughters, these being Lucy and Catherine. Dr. Stirling holds deservedly high rank in the medical profession of his locality, and is known to the fraternity throughout an extensive territory. He takes a prominent part in the regulation of sanitary and other matters affecting the health and welfare of the people among whom he lives, and holds the record of a public spirited citizen, zealous in the discharge of both private and public obligations. In all of his successes and attainments Dr. Stirling fully deserves to be classed with those sterling and dependable characters to whom we refer as self made men. There are many of these in Louisiana and other parts of the South and Nation.