Bio:  L. E. Scheen, Red River Parish
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. E. Scheen.  As a merchant Mr. Scheen has become well known throughout Red
River Parish, and as he has been closely identified with each vital interest
of this section he fully deserves the confidence and respect of the numerous
friends that have sprung up around him.  He was born in Bienville Parish
November 28, 1858, to J. H. and Nancy A. (Bradley) Scheen.  The father died in
Coushatta April 2, 1887, and the age of fifty-nine years, but his widow
survives him, is a resident of Coushatta, and has attained the age of
fifty-six years.  L. E. Scheen is the eldest of seven children living, and
came to this parish with his parents in 1875, both of whom were young people
at that time, and in this parish the father conducted a mercantile
establishment with good results, and at the time of his death left his family
in good circumstances.  He was a man highly esteemed in this section, but met
his untimely death at the hands of an assassin.  L. E. Scheen was given the
advantages of the common schools, and being an industrious and ambitious boy,
he made fair progress in his studies, and as he had became familiar with
mercantile life in his father's store he began following that occupation as a
means of livelihood in 1883, and by his fair dealing, enterprise and industry
he does an annual business of $20,000.  He is one of the leading merchants of
this part to the State, and has shown himself to be a shrewd and far-sighted
financier.  He has always supported the Democratic party by his influence and
vote, and socially is a member of Silent Brotherhood No. 146, of the A. R. &
A. M.

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