WAGGONER, J., Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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J .WAGGONER, of Columbia, Caldwell parish, La., was born in Catahoula
Parish, La., in 1859.  He was the eldest in a family of eight children
of West and Winnie (Ford) Waggoner, who were also natives of Louisiana,
where they were married and have since lived.  Mr. Waggoner began life
for himself at the age of twenty-one years, having received a good 
education in the common schools and his first work was as a clerk in
the store of R. B. Blanks, of Columbia, La., in 1879.  He was in Mr. 
Blank's employ for two years and then accepted a similar situation in
a mercantile establishment of J. B. Rutland, where he remained until 
July, 1884, at which time he purchased an interest in the business, 
Mr. Rutland having died the previous year, and continued it under the
firm name of Rutland & Co., having had the business control of the 
concern in its every department firm that time to the present.  A 
stock of general merchandise valued at $7,000, is carried and an 
annual business of about $50,000 is done.  Mr. Waggoner is recognized
as a young man of the best business qualifications, and his success 
has been greater than that achieved by many of longer and more varied
experience.  Some time since he was called by his fellow-citizens to
take the position of city treasurer in his town, and he has held various
other positions of honor and trust in Columbia.  He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church and is an Odd Fellow and a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, holding in his lodge of the last named order the
office of master at arms. 

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 438.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.