Bio: W. C. Roaten  Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Submitted: by : Gaytha Carver Thompson

Source: History of Sabine Parish by John G. Belisle, The Sabine Banner Press,

1912
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W. C. ROATEN



W. C. Roaten, principal of the Many High School, was born in Wayne County,

Ky., August 31, 1861, and was educated in the common schools of his native

state and at the Southern Normal School; took special work in the Summer

School of the South at Knoxville, Tenn., and in the Louisiana State University

summer schools.  He has taught every year, except one, since he graduated in

1884, thirteen years as principal of Louisiana high schools, the last seven

years at Many.



Prof. Roaten has always been a diligent student of educational subjects,

trying to find the best for the people around him; an untiring worker and

painstaking instructor.  He is an optimist by nature, an out spoken exponent

of what he thinks is right, and a mild but firm disciplinarian.  Some of the

results of his work are noted in the annals of the Many High School.



Prof. Roaten is a member of the Christian church.  He was married in 1890 to

Mollie Reed of Mississippi, and they have one child, Stanley, born in 1904.



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