McCLOUD, Charles C., Raymond, 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. 272.  Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by
Century Historical Association.

McCloud, Charles C., D. D. S., of Shreveport, La., proprietor of the Colonial apartments;
ex-president of the Louisiana state fair, is extensively interested in the civic and commercial life of
Caddo parish.  He was born at Raymond, Miss., July 18, 1859.  His father, the Rev. C. S.
McCloud, a Baptist minister, was a native of Vermont, and at the age of 15 came to Kentucky,
studied for the ministry at Georgetown college; was pastor of Baptist congregations at Versailles,
Ky., and at Vicksburg, Columbus, Jackson, and Raymond, Miss.  In that state, he married Miss
Anna Covington, who was born in South Carolina, the daughter of John W. Covington, a native
of Tennessee.  One of her sisters was the wife of Patrick Tompkins, a prominent politician of
Vicksburg, Miss., before the Civil war, and a member of Congress and a colleague of Jefferson
Davis and Abraham Lincoln; in the latter part of the 60's removing to San Francisco, Cal., where
he attained prominence in politics and was a member of the United States Senate, a colleague of
Sen. Sharon.  Dr. Charles C. McCloud was educated in the public schools of Raymond, Miss.,
and when his parents removed to Jefferson, Tex., he was sent to Mississippi college, at Clinton,
Miss., and graduating after 4 years of study, in 1878.  His father died in Shreveport, La., during
an epidemic of yellow fever in 1873.  Having decided to be a dentist, Dr. McCloud matriculated,
at the age of 27, in the dental department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore,
Md., and graduated in 1890, third in a class of 125.  For 20 years he practiced his profession in
Shreveport (1890-1910), and retired, to devote himself to the real estate business.  In 1909 he
erected the Colonial apartments, of which he is the manager and owner.  The Louisiana State Fair
association honored him with the presidency in 1910, a position he resigned in 1913, after having
placed the association upon a firm financial basis, free from all debts, and with improvements
worth $250,000.  For 5 years the doctor was president of the Shreveport Progressive union (now
Chamber of commerce).  He is honorary member of the New Orleans Progressive union (now the
New Orleans Association of Commerce); a director in the Louisiana State fair; director in the
American National bank of Shreveport, and vice-president American Bank & Trust Co., and in
several other corporations; a member of the Elks order, and of the Knights of Pythias (of which
he was Chancellor Commander for several years) and a trustee in the Baptist church.  In 1885 Dr.
McCloud married Miss Beulah Ward, at Waco, Tex., daughter of Artemus Ward, a well-known
planter, of Louisiana.  Mr. and Mrs. McCloud have no children.