Bio: C. C. Chatham, Desoto & Caddo Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by Gaytha Carver Thompson





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C. Chatham, editor of the Logansport News and postmaster of the town, was born
in Abbeville, Districtt, S. C., October 10, 1852, being a son of John W.. and
N. S. Chatham, who were also natives of the Palmetto State.  The mother died
when 'ject of this sketch
was an infant, and hcr d afterward moved to Texas, in 1857, setHarrison
County. He was a school teacher ~ South Carolina, and continued to follow hug
until the opening of the war.  After sation of hostilities he embarked in
the tile business at Carthage, 'fox., but reccntly from the active dnties of
life.  After the f his first wife he married again.  He was ocr of the Baptist
Church,
a Mason, and the war served as an officer in a Texas ~t, a considerable
portion of the time being n the commiasmy department west of the ppi Biver. 


Bio: Joe R. Brown, Desoto & Caddo Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by Gaytha Carver Thompson





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 C.
C. Chatbam gradnated from iversity of Kentucky, in 1873, and after this
institntion he spent two years in travel-the drug firm of Jacob Merrill, of
St. Louis,
hereafter to West Texas, where he was ena the stock business for six years. 
At the





 of this time he returned to Carthage, and after rming near there until 1884,
he went to ICeatis and taught in the college of that place two rms, at the end
of which time he came to Logans rt, and was recently appointed postmaster, in
naection with which he has been editing the )gansport News since Janiary,
1890.  It is an Ply edited, breezy newspaper, and already has circulation
approximating ],000.  His paper is iblished in the interests of the Democratic
party,
which he has long been a member, and at all nes some interesting and valuab],
information can
gleaned from its columns.  He, was married in 86 to ~iiss Penny ~J. Cummins, a
teacher in satchic College.  Mrs. Chatham is a member of
e Baptist Church, and has borne her husband '0 children, the second of which
only is living.


J.  H. Cowley, is deserving the success which 5 attended bis efforts
throughout life, for it has en his aim to be honest and upright, and be has
onged
no one but aided many.  He has alwavs en industrious and thrirty, and is
acknowledged be a representative of the weMthy agriculturists this parish, for
he is the owner of an immense aerint of real estate, a considerable portion of
aich is under enltivation, being devoted to the lture of cotton, of which he
is a very successfijl iser.  In every branch of his business he has own
himself to be shrewd and far seeing, and a manager he has not his superior
throughout
is section.  A native of Pickens County, Ala.,rn in the month of October,
1834, he is a son of mes and Susan (Russell) Cowley, who were born BlueGrass
soil in South Carolina, respectively, cir emigration to Louisiana taking place
in Dcmber, 1847.  They located n6ar the present site Grand Cane, where
the father purchased a 'ge tract of unimproved land, building thereon a
primitive log cabin of that day. On this farm made his borne, being active]y
engaged
in 'aring the same of forest trees and cane brake, til his death, which
occurred in April, 1888, his dow and four children still surviving him, J. H.
iwley being
one of the latter.  He was but a Lall boy upon his removal to this State, but
he 11 remembers many interesting incidents coil-
SIAXA.
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with their jolirney and the appearance of )nntry during many of the first
years of ettlement here.  MtJiough be had acquired iderable knowledge of the
Ibree R'5, prior ving Alabama, be attended school after t, to this State, and
while aiding and as-his father on the home plantation be aca fund of useful
knowledge, connected iat work which afterward stood him in good In March,
1862, he enlisted in Creole In and served until the final surrender, after
he returned to his plantation.  He was d in 1857 to Sarah Saunders, and she as
himself has been a member of the Baptist Y since œ554
N.Cunningham, D. D. S., has practiced 'refession of dentistry since  18617),
and be trnly said that thero is no moic pop ompetent or skillful dentist in
this section country.  He is a native of Pike County -his birth occurling on
~Iny 19  1836 3 iS a son of James F. and Nancy (Eli 'unniaghati, who were
born in the Old and Palmetto States, respectivel~  The removed with his
parents to Tennescee and
-880     to ~{ississippi.  In the yea' 184~ he L~ii5'iana from Texas, and
located in what De Soto Parish, where he has since do is attention to
 plantingand other puisuits, 'perty being situated about twelve inilest
ransfield.  He was twice married and the of this sketch is the only survivor
of his
'5 children.  He came to )Iansfield in 1814, iow the e]dest male resident of
the place, hat time there were no houses here, exCE court-house, the town
having been organ 1843.  He attended the common schools

a good practAcal education, and in 185 he study of dentistry, graduating from
of dentistry in Baltimore, Md., in ISEX ii of the following year he
enlisted 1,' ty D, of the Second Louisiana Beg Rifles, which was the first
company t Soto Padsh, and he was subsequentlY pr< the rank of lieutenant
and still later 'joned captain.  He was wounded it
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