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

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker
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E. B. Herndon is a prominent attorney of the State, and is a member of the
firm of Wise & Herndon, of Shreveport.  He is one of the leading citizens
of this section of the country in its professional, business and social
life, lending eminent strength to her bar, tone to her finance and grace to
her society.  He was born in Meade County, Ky., on March 12, 1849, and is a
son of the William and Mary E. (Wollfolk) Herndon, they being natives of
the Old Dominion.  At a very early day they emigrated with their parents to
Kentucky; were there reared and married, but in 1860 removed to the Lone
Star State, and eight years later to Caddo Parish, where the father died in
June, 1880, having been a farmer by calling.  His wife is still living, and
five of the six children born to himself and wife also survive him, their
names being:  James R., E. B., John W., Jessie M., and C. C.  William was
killed in a skirmish with the Indians in Mexico.  E. B. Herdon was reared
on a plantation, and after receiving the advantages of the common schools,
he finished his education at Waco, Tex.  With the desire of making the law
his calling through life, he began its study at the age of nineteen years,
and in July, 1871, graduated from the law department of the University of
Virginia, being admitted to the bar the following year.  His first practice
was done in Shreveport, and this parish has been the scene of his
operations up to the present time.  His first duty in a public capacity was
a parish attorney, next as parish treasurer, and he is now a prominent
member of the city council.  He is well known throughout this section as an
able and efficient lawyer.  Miss Mary F. Wise became his wife in 1874, and
to them two children have been born:  Mary W. and E. B., Jr.  Mr. Herndon
has shown his approval of secret organizations by becoming a member of the
K. of P. and the L. of H.  He is the owner of about 6,000 acres of land in
Louisiana, 8,000 acres in Texas, and in the former State has 800 acres of
land under cultivation, the principal product of which is cotton.  He and
his partner constitute one of the best known firms at the Louisiana bar,
are intelligent and substantial men, thoroughly versed in law, and are a
standing example of the much-doubted fact that honorable men can be good
lawyers.