Biography

John Lytle Scales (1871-1968) is the son of John Lytle Scales (1833-1890) and Margaret Steadman Mundy Scales (1848-1928). He enrolled at Centenary College of Louisiana in 1889 and graduated in 1892. In 1897, he earned a medical degree from the University of Nashville. Scales worked as a doctor in Shreveport from 1910 until his retirement in 1946. He served on Centenary’s board of trustees from 1913 to 1967, was chairman from 1915 to 1936, and was made an honorary life member in 1967. He was one of the organizers of the Shreveport Rotary Club in 1919. He also served on the boards of Shreveport Little Theatre, Shreveport YMCA, and Norwela Boy Scouts Council. In 1899, Scales married Olive Webb (1872-1905); they had two children. In 1907, he married Ethel Webb (1885-1966); they had one child.

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