Bio:  James A. Hightower, 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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James A. Hightower is now successfully following the calling to which he was
reared, and which has been his life work, a calling that for ages received
undivided efforts from many worthy individuals, and one that always furnishes
a good living to those who are persevering and energetic.  He is a native of
Harris County, Ga., born in the year 1850, and when ten years of age was
brought to Louisiana, by his parents (for a history of whom see sketch of C.
F. Hightower), and near the town of Homer he grew to maturity, receiving a
good education in the common schools of his native State and Louisiana.  After
attaining the age of twenty-four years he came to the conclusion that it is
not good for man to live alone, and acting upon this belief he was married to
Miss Georgie Lowery, a daughter of Larkin Lowery, their union in time
resulting in the birth of seven children: Bettie (now is school in
Summerfield), Willie, Genie, Irby, Mattie L., Larkin and Ettie.  Mr.
Hightower's agricultural operations have resulted very satisfactorily, and his
is now the owner of a fine plantation consisting of 800 acres, 200 of which
are cleared and under cultivation, yielding abundantly the usual crops of the
south.  Politically Mr. Hightower has at all times affiliated with the
Democrat party, and as a man and citizen his career has been one of more than
usual interest, for to his own indomitable energy he owes his success in life. 
He and his wife are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.

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