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Dr. Walter Brashear

Morgan City, Louisiana
· B. MD. 1776 - D. LA. 1860
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Walter Brashear was famed as a surgeon in Kentucky in 1806. He settled in Attakapas, Louisiana, in 1809, became a large landowner and sugar planter in St. Mary, and served for many years in the Louisiana Legislature. The town of Brashear, now Morgan City, was incorporated in 1860.
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Morgan City, Louisiana · United States

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