Bio: Jasper N. Geren, 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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===Jasper N. Geren is a tiller of the soil and a pilot, his post office 
address being Dubberly.  He was born in Webster Par., Louisianaon the farm 
where he now lives, November 4, 1848, his father, J. P. Geren, being 
also a native of this State, his birth occurring in 1817.  He grew 
to manhood in this State, in what is now Webster Par., Louisianaand was 
married here when in his twenty-first year (in 1838) to Miss Margaret 
Laird, also a native of this State and parish, and a daughter of John 
Laird.  Soon after his marriage Mr. Geren bought land and located 
where he now resides, and here has resided since along in the forties.  
His farm of about 400 acres is in a good state of cultivation, and on 
it is a good large residence and fair outbuildings.  Mr. Geren is a 
member of the Farmers' Union, and takes an active part in the meetings 
and business of the order.  He is a hale, active and will-reserved man 
of seventy-three years, and to himself and wife two sons and four 
daughters have been born: Jasper N., Joseph E., Elizabeth (wife of 
Capt. Joe Morgan), Julia (wife of J. D. Culp), Laconia (wife of Joseph 
Walker) and Ophelia (wife of J. W. Baird).  Mr. and Mrs. Geren lost 
two sons after they attained manhood: Rev. John L. (who was a member 
of the Baptist Church) and Rev. T. D. (who died while a student in the 
Clinton Theological Seminary of Mississippi).  He is a member of the 
Masonic order, and he and his wife and children are members of the 
Baptist Church.  Jasper N. Geren grew to manhood on the home farm, and 
remained with his father until he attained his majority and until 
after the war.  He then went on the Red River, and has been engaged 
in boating and piloting for a number of years, or from 1867 to 1890.  
This year he is helping to till the farm.  He is a young man of 
excellent parts, and at all times endeavors to make the most of his 
opportunities.