Howard B. Gist, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Howard B. Gist is one of the talented and forceful members of 
the Louisiana Bar, engaged in practice at Alexandria and regarded 
by members of his profession as a specialist in certain branches 
of the law.

Mr. Gist was born in White County, Arkansas, January 15, 1882, 
son of Lewis B. and Mattie (Battle) Gist, his father a native of 
Tennessee and his mother of Mississippi.  They were married in 
Arkansas, where his father spent must of his active life as a 
merchant. During the Civil war he was a member of the Eighteenth 
Missouri Regiment under Gen. Sterling Price.  He was always 
identified with the democratic party in politics and was a member 
of the Christian Church.  He and his wife had three children:  
Mrs. Joe Gray of Batesville, Arkansas;   Mrs. M. H. Strickland 
of Pine Bluff, Arkansas; and  Howard B.

Howard B. Gist grew up in White County, Arkansas, attended public 
schools there, and Ouachita College at Arkadelphia.  Beyond that 
he had no available means to prepare himself for the law, toward 
which his ambition tended, and for ten years he worked in a drug 
store, saving the money that put him through the law department 
of Tulane University at New Orleans.  He was graduated in 1911, 
and on being admitted to the bar located at Alexandria.  Since 
December, 1917, he has been a member of the prominent Alexandria 
law firm of Thornton, Gist & Richey.  Mr. Gist more and more in 
recent years has confined much of his practice to compensation 
and insurance law.

He married in 1918 Miss Marcia Luckett, a native of Rapides Parish.  
Her father was Dr. R. L. Luckett, a prominent old time physician of 
Rapides Parish, who at one time was United States marshal for this 
district.  Mr. and Mrs. Gist have one son, Howard B., Jr. Mrs. Gist 
is a Catholic.  Fraternally he is affiliated with the Royal Arch 
Masons, is a member of the Rapides Golf and Country Club, and is a 
democrat in politics.  He is a member of the Sons of the American 
Revolution.  His favorite diversion is golf and fishing..  Mr. Gist 
is also a member in the Board of Commissioners for the Red River 
Atchafalaya and Bayou Bouef Levee District.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 247, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and 
New York, 1925.