J. Paul de River, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Renowned Police Psychiatrist

When things went well in the stock market, Paul Maurice focused on his chosen field, cotton stocks.  When it was a down market, he represented Mumm’s champagne in the southern states or worked part time for the Pinkerton Detective Agency.  As a teenager Joseph Paul worked part time assisting his father at the Detective Agency; he also worked at the Times Picayune newspaper as a cub reporter. 

He went to work in the lumber industry in northern Louisiana; when his father offered to pay for his college education, he attended Vanderbilt University where he fell in with a drinking/partying group and was promptly brought home.  His father agreed to pay for his pre-med studies at the University of Alabama Medical School.  He spent approximately a year there then transferred to Tulane University . During his junior and senior years he worked at the psychiatric clinic at Touro Infirmary and was assigned as an assistant to Professor Ernst Hummel at the Home of Corrections.  He graduated in 1916, the youngest in his class, and did his post-graduate work in Reading, Pennsylvania at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

J. Paul de River
Certification of 
U.S. Navy
Military Service

Joseph Paul never liked his name because people insisted on calling him Joe.  He would refer to himself as John or Jack in an attempt to get away from the hated nickname.  He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1917 as a Physician Lt. Junior Grade, and used John as his given name.  He was one of the first Flight Surgeons.  He received training duty with pay at the U.S. Naval Air Station in San Diego, CA. He was honorably discharged December 29, 1919. 

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