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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.


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