MONROE W. CARROLL, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890



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MONROE W. CARROLL

Monroe W. Carroll, a prominent lumber manufacture and dealer of Provencal,
La., was born in the parish of Natchitoches, seven miles southwest of the city
of Natchitoches, on January 8, 1860, and when thirteen years of age he
accompanied his parents from Natchitoches Parish to Beaumont, Jefferson
county, Tex., remaining there with them until 1881.  In September, 1878, he
entered Roanoke college, of Salem, Va., attended two years, and, in October,
1880, entered Eastman's Business college, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from which
he graduated in the early part of 1881.  He then returned home, and in March
of that year engaged in the saw milling business at Nona, Tex., where he
continued, doing a good business, until September, 1885.  While there he was a
member of the firm of the Nona Mills company, of which he was general manager.
In January, 1880, he returned to Natchitoches Parish, and at once established
a large saw mill at Provencal, which he has owned and operated ever since.
The daily capacity of this mill is 45,000 feet, and he employs about fifty
men.

Mr. Carroll was married on June 23, 1887, to Miss Lula Prothro, of Mount
Lebanon, Bienville Parish, La., and they have two children; Monroe W. and an
infant daughter, Lula Pearl.  Mr. and Mrs. Carroll are members of the Baptist
Church, and are highly respected in the community in which they live.

In politics he adheres to the Democratic Party.  He is at present a member of
the city council at Provencal, and during the four years of his residence at
Nona, Tex., he served as postmaster at that place, being the first officer of
that kind.  Mr. Carroll is thoroughly familiar with every detail of the saw
milling business, and he has shown himself to possess a large amount of
inventive genius as well.  He invented an improvement for locomotive engines,
receiving a patent upon it January 21, 1890, and while his patent, on account
of its recent invention, is not in general use, it is in successful operation
at Mr. Carroll's mill, bidding fair to become a useful and valuable invention.

Mr. Carroll is an enterprising and progressive young man, and is made of the
kind of material calculated to make life a success.  He is recognized as a man
who is thoroughly reliable, upright and honorable.  Mr. Carroll is the fourth
of nine children, four sons and two daughters now living, born to the union of
Frank L. and Sarah J. (Long) Carroll, native of Alabama and Georgia,
respectively.  The parents were married in De Soto Parish, La., in about 1852,
and are now living at their home in Waco, Tex.