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Biographies
Louis W.
Mobley, M. D. One
of the oldest physicians in active practice in Dooly County is Dr.
Louis W. Mobley, who is a veteran of the Confederate war and has been
in active practice at Vienna for more than forty years.
He was born in Crocker County, Georgia, near Macon, March 4,
1842, a
son of M. H. and Margaret (Owen) Mobley, his father a native of South
Carolina and his mother of Georgia. Grandfather H. A. Mobley emigrated
to Georgia and located in Crocker County, settling on a tract of land
on the east side of the Okmulgee River. M. H. Mobley, his son,
subsequently became a well known planter in that locality and died in
1892 at the age of eighty-one. His wife passed away in 1893 at the age
of seventy-one.
The oldest of three children, Doctor Mobley as a boy attended the
country schools and afterwards took a course in the Richmond Medical
College, where he graduated M. D. in 1873. His first practice as a
physician was done in Pulaski County, but after a year, in 1874, he
moved to Dooly County and established his home at Vienna.
During the war he enlisted in Company E of the Sixth Georgia Regiment
under General Colquitt, and was in many of the stirring battles and
campaigns of the war, principally in Virginia, North and South Carolina
and Georgia. He was never wounded, and was mustered out at the close of
the war.
He has also played his part in public affairs, and was elected a member
of the State Legislature in 1876, and was again elected in 1882 and in
1905. He is an active democrat, a member .of the Masonic Order, and
belongs to the Dooly County Medical Society.
In October, 1862, he married Miss Sarah V. McAfee who died September
14, 1867. In 1868 Doctor Mobley married Miss S. J. Cone, a daughter of
Judge W. B. Cone. Mrs. Mobley died September 5, 1905. Source: A standard history of Georgia and
Georgians, Volume 6 By Lucian Lamar Knight
