Bio:  Dr. Henry Bryant, M. D., Red River Parish
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Feb 2000.

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Dr. Henry Bryant is a leading physician and honored citizen of Red River
Parish, but first saw the light of day in Bibb County, Ala., on March 9, 1841,
being a son of John and Nancy (Davis) Bryant, the former dying before the
subject of this sketch was born, and the mother in Jackson Parish, La., in
1861.  When the subject of this sketch was an infant he accompanied his mother
to Holmes County, Miss., and at six years of age they went to Jackson Parish,
and there he was reared on a farm and received an academic education.  In the
year of 1861 he served a few months as a soldier in the Confederate army,
being a member of the Ninth Louisiana Regiment, but on account of ill health
he was compelled to leave service, upon which he retruned home, and for
several years he tilled the soil in Jackson Parish.  He was also upon two
different occasions, engaged for a short time in the grocery business, this
being in 1865-67.  The following year he began studying medicine under  Dr. A.
F. Polland, of Woodville, Jackson Parish, and after remaining with him three
years, he in the fall of 1869, entered the Hospital Medical College of new
Orleans, in which he attended one course of lectures.  In the fall of 1870 he
further fitted himself for his profession by entering the medical department
of the University of Louisiana, of the same city, from which he graduated as
an M. D. in the spring of 1871.  He at once began practicing at Woodville,
Jackson Parish, where he remained three years.  In 1874 he removed to
Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La., in which place and vicinity he continued to
practice until 1888, with the exception of the year 1878, when he was a
resident and practitioner of Coushatta, Red River Parish.  In 1888 he returned
to this parish and located on a plantation which he had purchased during his
pervious residence here, it being situated on the east bank of the Red River,
three and one-half miles above Coushatta, and contains 1,300 acres, 300 of
which are under cultivation.  Since then the attention of Dr Bryant has been
divided between the practice of medicine and the management of his plantation,
thirteen cabins and one cotton-gin being erected on the latter.  The Doctor
was married in December, 1875 to Miss Ella A. Hayes, a native of Georgia, and
daughter of D. H. Hayes.  Their union has been blessed in the birth of six
children, all of whom are living, their names being Theodocia, Mattie, Mary
Belle, Anna Eliza, Henry Duke and Lizzie.  Dr. Bryant is a member of the
Masonic lodge, and in his political views is a Democrat.  He is an excellent
physician, skillful surgeon, an upright honest citizen, and as a result has
the confidence and esteem of all who know him.

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