Bio:  Christie O. Ferguson, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Christie O. Ferguson, cashier of the Homer National Bank of Homer, La., is a
thoroughly capable and experienced banker, and a short sketch of his highly
honorable career is given below.  He was born in Drew County, Ark., on
December 17, 1855, and is the youngest of a family of nine sons and three
daughters that grew to mature years.  He passed his boyhood and youth in
Homer, received a liberal education in Homer College, and was then engaged in
clerking for about eight years.  In 1881 he engaged in merchandising under the
firm name of Camp Davidson & Ferguson succeeded to the business himself, and
continued the same up to 1890, when he sold out.  He then engaged in the
banking business as above stated.  On May 4, 1881, he was married to Miss
Amelia Wilder, a native of Jackson Parish, La., who was reared and educated at
Homer, and who is the daughter of J. B. Wilder, of Magnolia.  Mr. and Mrs.
Ferguson lost one son, Guy O'Neal, whose death occurred in 1886, at the age of
four years.  Mr. Ferguson is one of the present board of aldermen, and has
served for a number of terms.  He and Mrs. Ferguson are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and socially Mr. Ferguson is a member of the I. O.
O. F. and the K. of P., having held official positions in the former
organization.  He is a man of superior business capacity, and on the
organization of the Homer National Bank, he was elected the cashier, a
position to which he is eminently fitted.  He is a gentleman of social habits,
and is popular with his friends, who are legion.

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