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Show DOCTOR IS DEPT. COMMANDER Ira L. Parsons, M. D., Is Leader of the Mississippi Department of the American Legion. Dr. Ira L. Parsons, commander of the V'-'-'-'ipi department of the jf-SST. American Legion, Js" was one of the jF , thousands of phy- L y sicians who left Q H?V lucrative prac- ' tlces to enter the T military service I s during the World j4 ?i ' war. However, his case is excep-JewlV excep-JewlV fa j 1 tional in that he k"$ 1 was 41 years old of! !lt the outl)rea' I of the war. i-oru iu l.jjh.u.11 county, Miss., Dr. Parsons was educated iu the public and high schools of bis native state, Mississippi college and Tulane university. univer-sity. Since graduation he has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Brookbaven, Miss. During the border troubles, Dr. Parsons Par-sons served as first lieutenant and captain, cap-tain, respectively, in the Mississippi National i Guard. Later he was promoted pro-moted to major and placed in charge of Field Hospital 153. He went overseas over-seas in command of the Seventh corps field hospital and served with that unit until December, 1918, when he was placed in command of Collecting hos- pltal, Seventh corps at Wltlich, Germany. Ger-many. Dr. Parsons was a member of the executive committee and was elected elect-ed state commander of the Mississippi department of the Legion in 1920. |