G. A. Rathbun, Webster Par., Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: April 2001



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===G. A. Rathbun was born and reared and has spent a very active life in
the City of Minden, and at the present time is clerk of the District
Court of Webster Parish.He was born at Minden in 1887, son of Morris 
and Lucy (Hadley)Rathbun.  His father, a direct descendant of the John 
Alden family ofMassachusetts, was born in New Jersey, and as a youth 
came toLouisiana shortly before the Civil war.  He was a Confederate 
soldierthroughout that conflict, and after the war for many years was 
amerchant at Minden, where he died in 1889.  His wife, Lucy Hadley,who
 died in 1916, was born at Cheneyville, and was related to thewell-
known Stafford family of Rapides Parish.G. A. Rathhun was two years 
of age when his father died.  After aneducation in local schools he 
had an extended experience employedin mercantile concerns and for 
several years was in business forhimself.  For five years he held 
the office of deputy clerk of theDistrict Court, and in January, 
1924, was elected clerk, taking up hisofficial duties on the 9th of 
April in the same year.Mr. Rathhun in addition to his participation 
in the public affairs of theparish has given much of his time to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a steward of the First Methodist 
Church at Minden, lay leaderin the church and assistant lay leader 
for the Minden District, issuperintendent of the intermediate senior 
Sunday school departmentof the Ruston district, and is secretary and 
treasurer of the WebsterParish Sunday School Association.  Mr. Rathbun 
married Miss GraceChaffe, of Minden.  Their two children are:  Charles 
Alden and Grace Virginia.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 167, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., 
Chicago and New York, 1925.