Bio: Jas. B. Pickett, Caddo Parish La
Source: Chronicles of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, Maude Hearn O'Pry,
1928, 
Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown

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                        JAS. B. PICKETT.
              One of the founders of the town of Shreveport, Jas. B. Pickett,
was born in Chester county, South Carolina.  He came to Claiborne (now         
Bossier) parish on Red River and engaged in the cultivation of cotton.

              His son, John, was born before his father came to Louisiana in
the above named county in 1834. Was a student in 1852 in Centenary College
while it was located in Jackson, Louisiana, and Irving College, Pennsylvania.

              From 1855 to 1862 was member of the Louisiana Legislature. 
During the war he was in the Trans-Mississippi Department of Army Supplies
under the command of Gen. Dick Taylor.