Bio: Herman F. Scheen,  Bienville Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown


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HERMAN F. SCHEEN
Merchant
Sparta, La

Mr. Scheen is one of the substantial and leading merchants of Sparta, in fact,
in Bienville Parish, La., and as such, needs no special introduction to the
residents of the same.  He has been a resident merchant of Sparta since 1871,
is doing an excellent business, which is constantly on the increase. and
is a gentleman highly honored and respected in the community.  He is a native
of Hanover, Germany, was horn near the city of Osnabruck, Prussia, February 8,
1852, and is the eldest of seven children, who all reside in the United
States, except one sister, who still lives in Germany.   

Mr. Herman P. Scheen was educated in the common schools, and increased this by
hard and studious application, which has fitted him for the practical life he
is at present leading.  When twenty years of age he started out for himself,
as salesman in a general store, and although he started with little else than
an active and fertile brain, and excellent business tact and acumen, he has
made a complete success of life, and is, to day, one of the substantial men of
the parish.  

Miss Maggie Lockett, who became his wife November 18, 1880, was horn in
Louisiana, and was possessed of a fine classical education, being a graduate
of Ringgold High School.  To this marriage have been born three children--a
son and two daughters--only one now Living, Marie Louise (aged six years).  
Mr. Scheen lost his wife in 1886, and later, on February 15, 1887, be was
married to Miss Mattie Gowen, a native of Louisiana, born in 1863, and a
graduate of Arcadia High School,  Two children nave been born to this union--a
son and daughter: Louise Virginia and Freddie Gowen, the former two years and
a half old, and the latter ten months. 

Mr. Scheen is a Simon-pure Democrat, in principle and precept, has taken an
active part in political affairs, and has stood firmly upon the principles of
right and justice. He was chairman of the executive committee (Democratic
party), from 1884 to 1888, and was also president of the police jury for he
full term, besides filling out an unexpired term.  He was postmaster at Sparta
for several years, and take him all in all, he is one of the useful and
progressive men of his parish.  He is public-spirited, and aims to do all in
his power to advance the interests of his people and parish.  In his business
relations his word is as good as his bond, and is recognized as such.  His
annual sales amount to from $15,000 to $20,000, which demonstrates that he is
wide awake to his interests, as a shrewd, capable man of business.  He is also
the owner of a large amount of real estate, besides being the owner of
property in Sparta.  He expects, at the present writing, to reside in
Bienville Parish, where his interests are centered, and where he is held in
high esteem and regard.  He is a member of the Catholic, his wife a member of
the Baptist Church. Mr. Scheen has made all he has by strict business
principles, honesty and integrity.