DeSoto Parish, Louisiana; Biography: Mayor W. C. Hardy - h630 --------------------------------- Submitted by Gaytha Carver Thompson Typed by Trudy Marlow ************************************************ Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Mayor W. C. Hardy is the proprietor of a large warehouse at Logansport, and is also weighmaster at that place, being in other respects an active and enterprising citizen. He was born in Caddo Parish, La., June 5, 1854, his parents, John M. and Mary Tilman (Carrow) Hardy, were natives of North Car- olina. During the Rebellion Mr. Hardy joined a Louisiana regiment, but died soon after entering the service, his widow afterward moving to Texas, where she passed from life. W. C. Hardy was reared by William Carrow, and remained with him until he attained his twenty-fourth year, working on a plantation, but at that time began tilling the soil on his own account. He continued this occu- pation successfully for six years, then came to Lo- gansport, where he opened a manufactory, and also ran a ferryboat across Sabine River one year. He then became a cotton weigher and and keeper of his present cotton warehouse. In June, 1889, he was elected mayor of the town, and is proving himself be the right man in the right place. He was married in 1878, to Miss Lois Hanson, of Texas, by whom he has five children: Spencer, Anice, Willie, Nan- nie and an infant daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Hardy are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and socially he is a Mason, and in his political views a Democrat. He has been a very successful business man, which fact is readily accounted for when it is known that he has always applied himself dili- gently to his work, and gave every detail his clos- est attention. He owns 100 acres of good land, a considerable portion of it cultivated, and being de- voted to the raising of cotton.