Bio: James W. Reagan, 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 W. Reagan, farmer, Minden, La.  Mr. Reagan is a man whom nature 
seems to have especially fitted to be a farmer, for he has met with 
good success in all his farming operations.  He owes his nativity to 
Itawamba County, Miss., born on December 19, 1841, and his father, A. 
C. Reagan, was a native of Tennessee.  The latter was reared in that 
State and in Alabama, but when a young man went with his parents to 
Mississippi.  He was married in that State to Miss Rhoda Wood, a 
native of Mississippi, who died in that State when our subject was a 
child.  Mr. Reagan moved to the Lone Star State in about 1853, settled 
in Robinson County, and there resided until his death in August, 1888.  
James W. Reagan remained in Texas until about eighteen years of age 
and received good common school advantages.  In September, 1861, he 
entered the army, Twelfth Texas Cavalry, Company K, as a private, and 
served until the close of the war, participating in the fight at Yellow 
Bayou and a great many skirmishes and small engagements.  He received 
a slight wound in the leg at Yellow Bayou.  After the war he returned 
to Texas, and the following year went on a farm.  In the winter of 1868 
he came to Louisiana and located in what is now Webster Par., Louisianawhere 
he tilled the soil in Ward No. 1 until elected to the office of sheriff 
in November, 1879.  In the spring of 1880 he moved to Minden, and at 
the close of his term was re-elected, serving eight consecutive years.  
He made an efficient officer, and was active and fearless in the 
discharge of his duty.  At the expiration of his term he went on a 
farm near Minded, just outside the parish.  He is the owner of 168 
acres of land adjoining town and on this he has good improvements.  
He has also served as a member of the police jury and school board, 
and has done all in his power to promote the interests of his town 
and parish.  He ahs served as a delegate to Parish senatorial and 
judicial conventions.  He was married here on February 25, 1869 to 
Miss Amanda Stewart, a native of Alabama and the daughter of David 
Stewart.  To them have been born four children: E. Brown (a clerk in 
Minden), Alice (a teacher in college), Lillie and Augustus.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Reagan are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the 
former is a Master Mason.