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| Dr. Charles Sims Miller |
Education: LSU (1907), Tulane University School of Medicine (1910)
Birthplace: Port Hudson, LA
Parents: Charles Sims, Sr. (1855-1933) and Ella Sullivan (1863-1948) Miller
Spouse: Anna Marie Wesley (1898-1992)
Children: Unnamed infant (no birth date provided)
Tenure in Oil City: 1914-1917
Below Charles Miller is pictured as a graduating senior at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
1907 LSU Gumbo, Page 30
His bio at that time, as it appeared in a New Orleans newspaper.
New Orleans Times-Democrat 30-May-1907, Page 8
While in medical school at Tulane University, Charles was identified as a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity along with with Rozell McGlathery, who also would later practice medicine in Oil City. (Note different publications list McGlathery's name as "Rosell," "Rozelle," and "Rozell;" the last spelling occurring most frequently.
1908 Tulane University Jambalaya (yearbook), Page 157
In 1910, his medical degree was conferred.
1910 Jambalaya, Page 93
In June 1914, he is identified as from Oil City among a list of guests registered at the Hotel Youree in Shreveport. The 1916 American Medical Directory also listed him from there as of 1916.
Oil City, LA (1916 American Medical Directory, Page 2136)
Drs. Miller and McGlathery were involved in an automobile accident in September 1916 that resulted in a fatality, and occurred under some "interesting" circumstances. While reportedly "joy riding" with two women in early morning (2:00 AM) hours, driver McGlathery lost control of his Chandler Model 17 Roadster in a sharp turn south of Bossier City, causing the car to flip upside down. He maintained he'd been going only 20 miles per hour. One of the young women, Dora Price, was killed.
Alexandria Town Talk 30-Sep-1916, Page 5
Below is an example of the vehicle Dr. McGlathery was driving.
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| Chandler Model 17 Four Passenger Roadster |
What was not mentioned or at least made clear to readers, likely to protect the doctors' good names (particularly that of McGlathery, who was married at the time) was that Dora and Marie lived in what is known as the St. Paul's Bottoms area of Shreveport. The former had twice been charged with running a "blind tiger" (illegal bar) in 1913 and 1914, as well as carrying a concealed weapon. The house at the address where both women lived, 210 Cain Street, was raided in 1917 for renting rooms for prostitution, that had been recently outlawed in the one-time red-light district through which the street ran.
Dr. Miller's drug store was identified among buildings that burned in a downtown fire in Oil City that occurred 03-Nov-1917.
By the time of his draft registration for World War I, dated 12-Sep-1918, he was working at the East Louisiana State Hospital for Insane.
Per his obituary, Dr. Miller served as a first lieutenant in the medical corps at Camp McPherson, GA during the war. After the war, he was identified a being from Oil City when listed among doctors returning from service to private practice in a Louisiana Medical Society publication. This may have been a case though of his place of residence not being updated in their records.
Dr. Miller married Anna Marie Wesley (1898-1992) in Sep-1922. They had no living children, though an unnamed infant (no birth date disclosed) is buried with them in the Norwood, LA cemetery.
He continued to be identified as a physician associated with the state hospital in bot the 1930 and 1940 censuses.
It the notice of his death in November 1940, it was stated that Dr. Miller was regarded as the state's no. 1 psychiatrist.
Baton Rouge State Times 07-Nov-1940, Page 1
Obituary: Baton Rouge State Times 08-Nov-1940, Page 9-A
Interment: Hillcrest Cemetery; Norwood, LA
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