Bio:  W. P. Scarborough, Red River and Webster Parish
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez
Date: Oct. 1999



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===W. P. Scarborough is the president of the Bayou Peirre Drainage 
Company (Limited) and manager of the East Point Co-operative 
Association (Limited), and is also a worthy planter of Red River 
Parish.  He is a native of Webster Par., Louisiana., his birth curring 
September 14, 1852, being an son of W.E.D. and Jane (Powell) 
Scarborough, both of whom were Virginians.  They first removed to 
Mississippi, thence to Louisiana in 1835, and located in Webster Par., Louisianabut remained only a short time, when they made one more move, 
this time settling in Natchitoches (now Red River) Parish.  He settled 
on land where the town of Mount Flat now stands, and here he followed 
the occupation of planting for years.  In 1856 he went to New Orleans 
and began dealing in cotton and groceries, continuing both these 
occupations with good results until 1861, when he died at Monroe, La., 
his wife dying in 1853.  There are two children surviving them: Mrs. 
Emily J. Reed, of Charlotte, N. C., and W. P., who was reared by his 
grandmother on Red River, his early days being devoted to planting 
and to attending the common schools.  In 1866 he went to Mount Lebanon, 
La., where he attended school for two years, after which he retruned 
to Mansfield, where he continued to pursue his studies.  Planting and 
merchandising have been his chief callings through life, and he now 
owns land to the amount of 8,000 acres, with about 2,800 acres under 
cultivation.  He owns a store at Williams, one at Mount Flat and one 
at West Point, on Bayou Pierre; is a stockholder in a large store at 
East Point, and in all respects is one of the leading men of Red River 
Parish.  He was married, in 1877, to Miss Dollie Minter, by whom he 
has one child, William C.  The Scarborough family is of English descent 
and members of the family were early settlers of Virginia.  Although 
the subject of this sketch was left an orphan in early youth, he has 
always made good use of the opportunities offered him, and by his own 
efforts has succeeded in obtaining an enviable position of the "ladder 
of success."--