LAND, John R., Lexington, MS, then Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000



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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 242.  Edited by Alcée
Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Land, John R., district judge for Caddo parish, was born at Lexington, Miss.,
July 9, 1862, and is a son of Thomas T. and Mary Eliza (Dillingliam) Land. 
His father, a native of Tennessee, was reared in Mississippi and later settled
in Caddo parish, La., where he was twice elected district judge, and twice
elevated to the supreme bench of Louisiana.  His mother was a native of
Mississippi.  The subject of this personal sketch is a brother of Judge Alfred
D. Land, the present associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and
in whose personal sketch, appealing in this volume, a more extended mention of
parental history is made.  John R. Land was reared in Shreveport and educated
in Washington and Lee university, Lexington, Va.  He studied law in the office
of his father and was admitted to the bar in 1884.  In 1888 he was elected to
represent Caddo parish in the legislature, and in the same year was a member
of the state convention to nominate delegates to the national Democratic
convention.  In 1892 he was elected district attorney for Caddo parish with
marked and exceptional ability in that office until 1904.  March 25, 1913, he
was elected district judge.  Fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O. F.,
the Knights of Pythias, the B. P. O. E., and other fraternal bodies.  He is a
member of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Shreveport.  In 1896 he
married Miss Willie Armstead.  To Judge and Mrs. Land 2 children have been
born, namely:  John R., Jr., and  Mary Elizabeth.  Judge Land is regarded as
an able lawyer and jurist and is held in highest esteem by all who know him.