Bio: George W. Solomon, 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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     GEORGE W. SOLOMON is a leading citizen of Caddo Parish, La., but is a
native of Alabama, his birth occurring in Butler County, December 1, 1835,
being a son of Hartwell C. and Elizabeth (Flowers) Solomon, who were
married in Alabama, the father dying in that State in 1855 when about
fifty-five years of age.  He was a farmer and a member of the Christian
Church, also a minister of the same, and in his political views was a
Democrat.  He had served in the War of 1812 and was of English descent.
His wife died in Caddo Parish in 1860 when about fifty-five years of age,
she being also a worthy member of the Christian Church.  The subject of
this sketch was the fourth of their eleven children, and when a small lad
commenced assisting his father on the farm, but at the death of the latter
he took charge of his mother's affairs and worked, provided for and
educated the balance of the family, and himself and a brother, Hartwell C.,
who is a farmer and a Missionary Baptist minister of Hopkins County, Tex.,
are the only ones of the family now living.  On coming to Louisiana Mr.
Solomon had $375 in gold, which he spent for his first crop, which proved a
failure, and he lost all.  In the fall of 1861 he became a member of the
Seventeenth Louisiana Infantry, with which he served until one year before
the close of the war, when he was transferred to the Confederate navy and
was on the gunboat "Shreveport," built in Missouri, and was with it when he
surrendered at Alexander, La.  While in the infantry he was in the battle
of Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, and a number of skirmishes.  At the close
of the war he commenced to farm in Ward 3, where he has since lived.  He
has been the owner of five different plantations in this ward, and is now
the owner of 360 acres of land, of which 120 are under cultivation, which
he devotes to the raising of corn and cotton.  In 1876 he bought an
interest in a horse gin which he operated several years, but in 1885 built
a steam gin which does excellent work.  From 1884 to 1886 he was in
business in Danville, and expects soon to again engage in business here.
In 1865 he was married to Miss Eusabia Attaway, a daughter of Elisha
Attaway, she being born in this parish in July, 1838, and to them eleven
children have been born:  Verona (wife of Thomas Watson, deceased, she now
making her home with the subject of this sketch), Stella (wife of Robert
Jones of this parish), Sallie, Thurston, Ernest, Frank, Eusabia, Clide and
Edward (living), and Allen (an infant, deceased), and Sterling (who died at
the age of fourteen years, being the oldest son).  Mr. Solomon is a
Democrat, and is a liberal supporter of worthy enterprises in his parish.
Since writing the above Mr. Solomon has lost his wife, a noble woman, a
kind wife and a loving mother.  she had been an invalid of consumption for
ten months, and was tenderly cared for by her devoted children and
sympathizing friends until September 2, 1890, when she departed this life at
the age of forty-six years and two months.  "Well done thou good and
faithful servant, enter into thy joys that await thee."