Bio: W. P. Scarborough, Red River and Webster Parish
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
GHerna1154(a)aol.com
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W. P. Scarborough is the president of the Bayou Peirre Drainage Company
(Limited) and manager of the East Point Co-operative Association (Limited),
and is also a worthy planter of Red River Parish. He is a native of Webster
Parish, La., his birth occurring September 14, 1852, being an son of W.E.D.
and Jane (Powell) Scarborough, both of whom were Virginians. They first
removed to Mississippi, thence to Louisiana in 1835, and located in Webster
Parish, but remained only a short time, when they made one more move, this
time settling in Natchitoches (now Red River) Parish. He settled on land
where the town of Mount Flat now stands, and here he followed the occupation
of planting for years. In 1856 he went to New Orleans and began dealing in
cotton and groceries, continuing both these occupations with good results
until 1861, when he died at Monroe, La., his wife dying in 1853. There are
two children surviving them: Mrs. Emily J. Reed, of Charlotte, N. C., and W.
P., who was reared by his grandmother on Red River, his early days being
devoted to planting and to attending the common schools. In 1866 he went to
Mount Lebanon, La., where he attended school for two years, after which he
retruned to Mansfield, where he continued to pursue his studies. Planting
and merchandising have been his chief callings through life, and he now owns
land to the amount of 8,000 acres, with about 2,800 acres under cultivation.
He owns a store at Williams, one at Mount Flat and one at West Point, on
Bayou Pierre; is a stockholder in a large store at East Point, and in all
respects is one of the leading men of Red River Parish. He was married, in
1877, to Miss Dollie Minter, by whom he has one child, William C. The
Scarborough family is of English descent and members of the family were early
settlers of Virginia. Although the subject of this sketch was left an orphan
in early youth, he has always made good use of the opportunities offered him,
and by his own efforts has succeeded in obtaining an enviable position of the
"ladder of success."