BIHM, Lewis, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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LEWIS BIHM, ST. LANDRY.--Mr. Bihm is a native of St. Landry parish, born in
1859.  He is the son of M. and I. (Lovell) Bihm, both natives of Louisiana.

Young Lewis had limited opportunities for an education as a boy, but made the
best of them.  He chose as his vocation farming, which he has followed up to
the present time.  He has a nice little plantation of about two hundred and
fifty acres of prairie and woodland, on which he has good improvements and
raises cotton and corn.  He married, December 29, 1879, Leda McClennon, a
native of St. Landry.  To this union has been born three children, James,
Isoline and Jewel.

Mr. Bihm operates in connection with his plantation a cotton gin and corn


Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 10.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.