Wayne County

W. S. Borah, M.D., Baldwin, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller

Mike wrote: This Bio was from Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 359. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company, is for anyone that has a biography about a person from Wayne County.


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.



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