Bio: James M. Canfield, Webster Par., Louisiana
Source:  Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: April 2000



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===James M. Canfield, planter, Minden, La.  A lifetime devoted with 
perseverance and energy to the pursuit of agriculture has contributed 
very materially to the success which has attended the efforts of Mr. 
Canfield, a man of substantial and established worth.  He was 
originally from the Palmetto State, his birth occurring in Edgefield 
District, in December, 1824.  He was a son of James Canfield, who was 
also a native of South Carolina, and who was a son of John Canfield, 
also a native of that State.  The grandfather was of direct English 
descent, and he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution.  James M. 
Canfield came to Louisiana with his parents in 1836, locating near 
where Mount Lebanon now stands, and remained there until 1844, when he 
came to Minden.  He located in Bossier Parish in 1849, and in 1854 
settled where he now resides.  He has followed agricultural pursuits 
all his life, and has been quite successful in this occupation.  He was
first married in 1851, to Ann R. Malone, and to this union were born 
two children.  This lady died in October, 1865, and in July of the 
following year he married E. A. Boseman, who bore him one child and 
died in August, 1868.  In December, 1869, he married Sarah Smith, and 
to this union were born three children.  She died in June, 1880.  In 
February, 1882, he contracted his fourth marriage with Carrie S. 
Applewhite, his present wife.  No children have been born to the 
latter union.  Mr. and Mrs. Canfield are worthy and consistent members 
of the Baptist Church.  For many years Mr. Canfield has been identified 
with the Masonic fraternity, but owing to defective hearing he did not 
attend regularly, and was consequently dropped for the rolls.  In 1862 
he enlisted under Gen. Beauregard, and served until the close of the 
war.  During this time his hearing became impaired, and has troubled 
him ever since.  He is wide awake and enterprising, and is a substantial 
agriculturist of the parish.