Harold W.S. Lund, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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

     HAROLD W. S. LUND.  Among the best known mercantile houses in Alexandria,
La., is that belonging to Harold W. S. Lund, which was first established in
January, 1884, as Lund & Warren, J. D. Warren continuing with him until
February, 1890, when Mr. Lund purchased the entire stock and conducted the
business for his own account.  Mr. Lund was born in the city of New
Orleans, La., on March 25, 1856, being a son of Neil H. and Mary Ann
(Seiler) Lund, the former a jeweler by trade, and a native of Denmark.
When a young man he came to America, and spent some time in New York City,
but subsequently settled in New Orleans, where he married and reared one
son, the subject of this memoir.  The grandfather Lund was a sea captain,
and commanded and owned vessels in the Danish merchant marine.  During the
many years he traversed the ocean he made a number of voyages to the United
States, but eventually died in his native land.  The wife of Neil H. Lund,
Mrs. Mary Ann Lund, was born in New Orleans, and is now making her home
with her son, H. W. S. Lund, in Alexandria.  She is a daughter of Antony
Seiler, a German of Wurtemburg.  H. W. S. Lund grew to manhood in the city
of his birth, completed a good education there, after which he engaged in
clerical work in a wholesale grocery house, on a commission basis, and
there spent six years, from 1873 to 1879.  After spending the following
year clerking in other towns, he, in 1880, opened up a general store in
Covington, La., which he conducted with good results until December, 1883.
In the month of January, 1884, he had come to Alexandria, as above stated,
and here he has since been.  He carries an excellent and select stock of
general goods, and his trade is solidly established.  Mr. Lund was married
in New Orleans, in July, 1890, to Miss Isabella Bain, who was born in that
city, a daughter of George Bain, Esq., a native of Scotland.  Mrs. Lund is
a member of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a member of the K. of P.,
and presiding officer of Alexandria Lodge No. 3410, of the K. of H.