George R. Waters, 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

     GEORGE R. WATERS is a member of the saw milling firm of Waters &
Bringhurst, of Pineville, La., and although his life has been a somewhat
uneventful one, it clearly demonstrates what can be accomplished, when a
man is possessed of determination and energy.  Mr. Waters was born in this
parish in 1852, and as the greater part of his life has been spent here, he
is exceptionally well known, and naught has ever been said derogatory to
his character.  His parents, William and Mary J. (Cummings) Waters, were
born in this state, and here they were reared and married, the former,
however, receiving his finishing education in the state of Kentucky.  He
was a saw miller throughout life, and was a man of much business tact and
shrewdness.  He was an Episcopalian in religious belief, and died in 1865.
His  widow survives him, is a resident of Rapides Parish, and is a member
of the Catholic Church.  George R. Waters attended the common schools of
this parish, but at about the age of sixteen years, he engaged in the saw
milling business, a calling he has been interested in up to the present
time, and in which he has done well financially.  In 1873 he formed a
partnership with C. E. Bringhurst, a member of the present firm of Waters &
Bringhurst, and they now operate a mill which has a capacity of 35,000 feet
of lumber per day.  Mr. Waters has ever been public spirited, and is
interested in all enterprises for the public good.  Miss Mary Bradley, a
daughter of Terrell Bradley, became his wife in 1878, and by her he has two
sons and four daughters.  He as well as his wife are members of the
Catholic Church.  Mr. Waters' father was a farmer of this ward, and also
followed carpentering in Alexandria, this receiving his attention,
subsequently in New Orleans, in which city he passed from life.