Bio: Alfred M. Garrett, Desoto Parish La.
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, The
Southern Publishing Company, Nashville & Chicago, 1890
Submitted by: Gaytha Thompson


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Alfred M. Garrett is a wholesale and retail general merchant of Logansport,
La., his establishment here being the first one to be erected after the war,
some seventeen years ago.  He is a Texan by birth, being born in Shelby
County, November 4, 1846, and is a son of Julius and Mary (Truit) Garrett,
natives of North Carolina, both of whom passed from life in Shelby County,
Tex.  The father removed from his native State to this place alone, in 1845,
but the mother came with her parents in 1838, and here they met and married. 
Mr. Garrett was a prosperous tiller of the soil, and passed to his long home
in 1884, at the age of sixty-six years, his wife dying in 1878, when fifty one
years of age.  He was a Mason, a Democrat in his political views, and although
strongly opposed to secession, when he found that his opposition was of no
avail, and that the ordinance of secession had been passed, he bowed to fate,
and espoused the cause of the confederacy.  

To his marriage a large family of children was born, of whom the subject of
this sketch was the eldest.  He received his education in the schools of this
vicinity, but when twenty three years of age he left home, and opened a
mercantile establishment at Willow Grove, Shelby county, which he conducted
until 1874, when he and J. H. Trutt formed a partnership, and were engaged in
the conduct of a good, general mercantile establishment until 1887, when they
severed connections.  

Mr. Garrett has since been in business alone, and has met with a more than
ordinary degree of success, his annual sales amounting to from $40,000 to
$50,000.  His trade, which is very large, extends into Texas.  His marriage to
Miss Malica Etta Ferguson took place in 1877, and to them a family of five
children has been born: Mamie, Julius B., James, Douglas and Raymond.  Mrs.
Garrett is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is a
Mason, and in his political views, a Democrat.