Robert S. Metcalfe,  Concordia Parish
Submitted by Mike Miller




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Robert S. Metcalfe 
          Catahoula Parish, Louisiana 
    Robert S. Metcalfe.  This well known citizen of Catahoula parish,
La., was born in Adams county, Miss., in 1808, a son of James W.
Metcalfe, a native of the same county and state, and grandson of Dr.
James Metcalfe, who was a Kentuckian by birth, but removed to
Mississippi, where he became a large land owner and an extensive and
successful medical practitioner.  He was married to a Miss Baker, a
native of Kentucky, and by her became the father of the following
children:  Dr. John; Dr. Arrick; James W.; Dr. Duncan M.; Amelia, wife
of Samuel Choppin; Charles and Henry.  James W. Metcalfe received a
collegiate education, and began the battle of life as manager of his
father's plantation.  He was afterward married to Miss Sarah J. Young, a
daughter of Dr. Young, of Mississippi, and their union was blessed in
the birth of six children:  James, Belle, Farrar, Robert, Charlie and
Sallie.  Dr. James Metcalfe died in 1865, after the surrender of the
confederacy, from the exposure to which he had been subjected while in
the service.  He served from the beginning as a private in the cavalry
service, and was faithfulness itself in the discharge of his duty.
Throughout life he had been a whig in politics.  His widow survives him
and resides on the old homestead, Ackland plantation, which lies
fronting Black river.  Robert S. Metcalfe, the immediate subject of this
sketch, attended school at Pass Christian until he reached the age of
sixteen years, when he was sent to St. James college, Maryland.  Upon
his return from college he took charge of mother's plantation since
which time he has been a resident of Catahoula, parish.  He was married
on November 26, 1889, to Miss Sallie Ruth, a planter, who died when Mrs.
Metcalfe was a child.  To the subject of this sketch and his wife a son
has been born, whom they named James W.  The Ackland plantation consists
of 1,200 acres of land, of which 700 acres are open, Mr. Metcalfe
himself cultivating about 500 acres, which produces about twenty-five
bushels of corn and three-fourths of a bale of cotton to the acre.  Mr.
Metcalfe is a young man possessing many excellent qualities, among which
may be mentioned modesty, energy, honesty and intelligence.  He moves in
the best social circles, and is deeply interested in the welfare of his
parish and section.
 
 From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, pp.
251-252. 
Submitted by Mike Miller