Rape, Jacob Nathaniel

Rape, Jacob Nathaniel, M. D., is to be noted as one of the representative members of the medical profession in Jackson county and is located in practice at Mosspoint. Doctor Rape was born in Harperville, Scott county, Miss., Feb. 18, 1859, and is a son of Cyrus M. and Dorcas (Graham) Rape, the former native of Georgia and the latter of South Carolina. The father of the doctor enlisted in a Mississippi regiment of the Confederate forces at the outbreak of the Civil war, and he proceeded to the front with his command, while he died at Gainesville, Ala., just after the battle of Shiloh, as the result of an attack of pneumonia. Doctor Rape secured his early educational training in the schools of his native State, having been for a time a student in Centerville Institute, in Newton county, and he later carried out his well defined plans by entering the medical department of Tulane university, in the city of New Orleans, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, as a member of the class of 1891. Prior to having taken up his work as a student of medicine the doctor had devoted his attention to farming and teaching school. He began the practice of his profession in Tchula, Holmes county, where he remained until 1900, when he located in Mosspoint, where he has built up a representative practice, ramifying throughout this section of Jackson county. He is a member of the American medical association, the Mississippi State medical society and the Jackson county medical society, of which last mentioned he is secretary at the time of the preparation of this sketch. He is a stanch Democrat in his political allegiance and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, while his wife holds membership in the Missionary Baptist church. On Nov. 11, 1897, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Rape to Miss Bertha Amis, daughter of Capt. Albert and Augusta (Petty) Amis, of Gulfport, Harrison county, and of the children of this union we here enter the names -with respective dates of birth: Cyrus, Jan. 12, 1900; Woodson, Aug. 28, 1902; Jacob N., Jr., Aug. 12, 1904 and Alfonso Gallatin, June 12, 1906.
[Mississippi: Contemporary Biography Edited By Dunbar Rowland, 1907 -­ Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

Land, Alfred Dillingham

LAND, ALFRED DILLINGHAM, associate justice state supreme court of Louisiana, was born Jan. 15, 1842, in Holmes county, Mississippi. During the civil war he served in the confederate army. In 1867-94 he practiced law in Shreveport, La. In 1894-1903 he was district judge. He is associate justice of the state supreme court of Louisiana; and resides in Shreveport, La.
[Herringshaw's American Statesman and Public Official Yearbook: 1907-1908;
By Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1909; Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack.]