WILLIAM CARY
                         Jennings, LA. 
                      Parish of Calcasieu


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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 146.

Contributed by Margaret Moore                         

William Cary, editor of the Jennings Reporter, was born in 
Knox county, Ohio, February 2, 1833. He is the son of
Daniel M. and Darcus (Price) Cary, the former a native of
New Jersey, the latter of Pennsylvania. Daniel M. Cary removed 
to Ohio early in life, and in 1853 to Iowa, where he was 
engaged in farming. He died in 1879, four months after the 
death of his wife.

William Cary is the eldest of a family of eight children, five 
boys and three girls. He received a good common school 
education, and began business life on a farm. In 1887 he 
removed to Jennings, Louisiana, where he engaged in
real estate and land agency for two years. In January, 1889,
he founded the Jennings Reporter, the only paper published 
in the place. It is principally devoted to the advancement 
of Southwest Louisiana, and Calcasieu parish in particular. 
The paper has met with a hearty reception, and under
its able management it is destined to become a power for the 
accomplishment of much good.  In politics it is Republican, 
though not partisan. Mr. Cary was married, in 1856,, to Miss 
Lucy E. O'Hara, daughter of Major O'Hara, of Chockton, Ohio. To
this union there have been born five sons: Eldridge, Francis P.,
Charles A., Wilford P. and Walter E. The first marriage of Mr. Cary
being unpleasant, it was dissolved by divorce in 1887. Mr. Cary 
was afterward married, in 1890, to Miss Mary C. Kistner, 
daughter of Charles Kistner, proprietor of the Kistner Hotel, 
of Jennings, La.