Bio:  L. M. Howard, 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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L. M. Howard is the proprietor of the People's Telegraph Line, and is also the
owner of an excellent livery stable in Coushatta.  He was born in Winston
County, Miss., June 4, 1851, son of J. J. J. and Sarah L. (Reeves) Howard,
both of whom were born in Charleston, S. C. (the latter in 1823), and died in
Winston County, Miss., and Bienvelle Parish, La., in 1851and 1865
respectively, the father being about fifty years of age at the time of his
death.  L. M. Howard is the younger of two children born to his mother's
second marriage, and when two months old was brought to Bienville Parish, La.,
and here was reared to manhood, first attending the common school and the
Mount Lebanon University, subsequently entering the normal department of a
fine educational institution at Bastrop, La.  After teaching school in
Morehouse Parish for one year he, in January, 1870, went to Texas, but two
years later came to Coushatta.  Here he was elected clerk of the court of Red
River Parish in 1880, and, after serving one term, was deputy in the same
office four years.  In 1888, he opened a livery establishment at this point,
put prior to this, in 1883, had built the People's Telegraph Line from this
point to Natchitoches, and these two enterprises is managing successfully. 
The line is thirty miles long, and was built at a cost of $1,250.  He is a
wide-awake and enterprising gentleman, and as a business man has been a
success.  He was married is September, 1877, to Miss Mollie Jones, who was
born in Tennessee in September, 1857, and by her is the father of one child-L.
Benton, who was born June 9, 1883.  Mr. Howard is a Democrat, and, socially,
belongs to the Silent Brotherhood Lodge No. 146, of the A. F. & A. M., and Red
River Lodge No. 11, of the A. O. U. W.  He is deeply interested in all public
enterprises, and has given liberally of his means in support.

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