1925 Biography - Edward K. Hirsch
Edward K. Hirsch, M. D., F. A. C. S., has achieved within the period of
his professional activities in the City of Baton Rouge a distinct
prestige as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the
younger generation in East Baton Rouge Parish. He has here been
established in successful urological practice since the year 1921, and
his offices are maintained at 22-28 Reymomd Building, on Third Street.
Doctor Hirsch was born in the City of Natchez, Mississippi, and the
date of his nativity was January 9, 1892. He is a son of Jacob Hirsch,
who was born in Altdorf, Germany, in the year 1833, and whose death
occurred at Monroe, Louisiana, August 15, 1922. Jacob Hirsch was about
fifteen years of age when he came from his native land to the United
States, and as a young man he engaged in the general merchandise
business at Jonesville, Louisiana. Later he followed the same line of
enterprise in the City of Natchez, Mississippi, and in 1912 he removed
to Monroe, judicial center of Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, in which city
he thereafter continued to be a leading merchant and highly esteemed
citizen until his death. He was a loyal supporter of the cause of the
democratic party, and while a resident of Natchez, Mississippi, he there
gave effective service as a member of the City Council. His widow, whose
maiden name was Carrie Schlenker and who was born at Jonesville,
Louisiana, in the year 1862, died September 17, 1924, at Monroe,
Louisiana. Flora, eldest of the children, is the wife of Jonas Selig,
who is a prosperous merchant at Monroe; Rowena is the wife of Abe Arent,
who is there engaged in the real estate business Dr. David I., a
physician and surgeon engaged in practice at Monroe, was commissioned a
first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States Army at the
time of the World war and with his command was in service overseas about
eighteen months; Leah is the wife of Isaac Moyse, a civil engineer, and
they reside at Baton Rouge; and Dr. Edward K., of this review, is the
youngest of the number.
Dr. Edward K. Hirsch gained his earlier
education by attending a school conducted at Natchez by one of the
Catholic brotherhoods, and later was for one year a student in Jefferson
College at Convent, Louisiana. In 1914 he was graduated from the medical
department of Tulane University. and after thus receiving his degree of
Doctor of Medicine he returned to his native City of Natchez and served
one year as an interne in the Natchez Hospital then went to the West,
and after having been engaged in the successful practice of his
profession six years at Superior, Nebraska, he returned to Louisiana and
established his residence in Baton Rouge in 1921. Here his ability and
personality have gained to him a substantial and representative
practice. The Doctor holds membership in the East Baton Rouge Parish
Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Southern
Medical Association and the American Medical Association, and is a
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is affiliated with Baton
Rouge Lodge No. 372, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he and his
wife hold membership in the Jewish Temple in their home city. He became
a member of the Lodge of Elks at Galveston, Texas, and his name still
remains on its membership rolls, he having resided in the Lone Star
State a comparatively short time, in Baton Rouge the Doctor owns and
occupies an attractive residence in Delphine Place.
September 21,
1915, recorded the marriage of Doctor Hirsch and Miss Stella Moyse,
daughter of Simon and Flora (Joseph) Moyse, of Baton Rouge, where Mr.
Moyse is a prominent merchant. Doctor and Mrs. Hirsch have one daughter,
Edwena, born December 16, 1920.
Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana,
by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 106.
