Shea E. Prince, M. D.; Bossier, then Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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Shea E. Prince, M. D. The Prince family was established in Bossier
Parish at Princeton, a village named in their honor about the close of
the war between the states.  The family has ever since been one of
the strong substantial ones of Northwest Louisiana, with growing
interest as planters, professional and business men.

Dr. Shea E. Prince, now a resident of Shreveport, was for many
years a prominent physician in Bossier Parish, and is president of two
banks at that parish.

He was born at Princeton, in Bossier Parish, in 1860. son of J. W.
and Virginia Alice (Locke) Prince.  His father came from Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, in 1866, and acquired a large plantation on which was built
the Town of Princeton.  This community is halfway between
Shreveport and Minden.  The late J. W. Prince devoted the rest of his
life to the management of his large planting interests.

Shea E. Prince grew tip on a plantation, and after his early education
entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore. where
he was graduated Medical Doctor in 1896.  Continuously for the
next twenty years he looked after an extended practice in town and
country in Bossier Parish, discharging with splendid skill and fidelity
the responsibilities of a physician and surgeon.  Since retiring from
his profession he has given most of his time to banking as president
of the Bossier State Bank at Bossier City, and the Bank of Plain
Dealing in the town of that name.  Doctor Prince's home is at 1033
East College Street in Shreveport.

Some of his brothers are still identified with the ownership and
management of plantations at Princeton.  His brother, Mr. A. W.
Prince, is a member of the firm Eiston, Prince and McDade, Inc.,
wholesale grocers at Shreveport.  Doctor Prince throughout
America's participation in the World war served as medical examiner
for the Bossier Parish Draft Board.

He married Miss Pauline Trigg, member of a prominent family of
Southern Arkansas.  Her father was a lumberman, and at one time
was associated with Mr. E. A. Frost in business under the corporate
name of the Frost-Trigg Lumber Company.  Doctor and Mrs. Prince
have three children,  Mrs. Emeline Glover,  Miss Helen Beverly and 
Miss Hallula Sue Prince.

NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white
photograph of the subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 199-200, by Henry E.
Chambers.  Published by The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, 1925.