Captain C.J. Barstow, Rapides Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson 

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana Nashville and 
Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company 1890    

CAPT C.J. BARSTOW  
Capt. C.J. Barstow, planter and president of the police jury of Rapides Parish, 
was born in the Nutmeg State in 1829. When about the age of nineteen he came South, 
located in Alabama, where he remained two years. He then went west, and was in 
California about two years and a half, after which he located in Louisiana, where 
he ran a steamboat on Red River. He was the owner of a steamboat at about the 
breaking out of the war, and in 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate Army, Crescent 
Brigade from Rapides Parish. He remained with this brigade until it was broken up, 
after which he came home and operated the railroad from Alexandria to Lecompte, 
from 1863 - 1864. He then bought an interest in the "Grand Duke" steamer, but she 
was seized by the Confederacy. Mr. Barstow then went to New Orleans, and was a 
member of the firm of Eaton & Barstow, wholesale grocers, until 1872. After this 
he was engaged in planting in St. Landry Parish for a short time and in 1872 went 
to Rapides Parish, where he continued planting, on the Waverly place. This he 
still carries on, and has 1,500 acres in all. He raises cotton and corn and 
formerly sugar. Mr. Barstow was elected police juror in 1878, and served in that 
capacity until the new constitution went into effect. He was again appointed in 
1884, reappointed in 1888, and holds that position at the present time. He has 
been president of the same for some time. He was married in this parish to Miss 
M. Stella Smith, who bore him five children. The name Barstow is English.  
Capt. Barstow is much esteemed, and is a very popular man of this parish.