Bio: John B. Harris, Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

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John B. Harris, dentist, fruit-grower and planter, of Ward 6, Caddo Parish,
La.  He whose name heads this sketch was born in Richmond, Va., in 1832,
being the son of John H. and Elizabeth (Callahan) Harris, natives of
Virginia.  His parents moved to Mississippi while he was an infant,
afterward coming to Shreveport, where the mother died, about 1850.  Dr.
Harris was the youngest of the four children born to his parents, and
received his educational training in Philadelphia, Penn.  After completing
his education he journeyed west to California, where he remained until
1851, at which time he came to Shreveport, but after a few years moved to
Texas.  In the Lone Star State, in Red River County, he married, in 1853,
Miss Martha A. Caldwell, who died in 1870, leaving seven children, five of
whom are living at the present time.  After mourning the death of his first
wife, Dr. Harris was again married, in 1873, this time to Mrs. Mariam C.
Powell (nee Norman), but death claimed her in the first year of marriage.
September, 1876, he married Mrs. Ida A. Stallworth, daughter of Calloway J.
and Sophronia Stallworth, born in Alabama.  To this union were born five
children, all of whom are now alive.  Dr. Harris, in 1865, returned to
Shreveport, and has since continued to make his home here, being perhaps
the oldest dentist in Northwest Louisiana, where he still has an extended
practice.  While in Sacramento, Cal., in 1850, Drs. Wheaton (of Memphis,
Tenn.) and Harris established a dental office, being the first one in that
part of California, and had a fine practice.  About ten years ago he
settled in the woods, three miles west of Keithville, where he owns a
plantation, and grows successfully nearly every kind of fruit.  He is also
raising a line of Jersey cattle that are exceedingly valuable.  The Doctor
is succeeding admirably, and is now the owner of a comfortable fortune.