Subject: B. L. Barrow,  W. Feliciana Parish
Submitted by Mike Miller
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B. L. Barrow,   West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
    B. L. Barrow is a native of the state in which he now resides, born
in 1856, a son of John J., who was a state senator from the Sixteenth
district of Louisiana, and died during the last session of the
legislature.  He was very extensively engaged in sugar planting up to
1872, at which time he began devoting the most of his attention to the
culture of cotton, in which business he was successful and made a large
amount of money.  He owned large tracts of hill land and 300 slaves
before the war.  His great-grandfather came to Louisiana in 1795, and in
this state members of the family have resided ever since.  John J. was
an extensive office holder, and ably filled the positions of police
juror, justice of the peace, a member of the lower house of the state
legislature, parish sheriff and state senator, and was a man of more
than ordinary influence.  B. L. Barrow was educated at home until
fifteen years of age, after which he spent two sessions in college at
Pass Christian, Miss., and two sessions in the University of Louisiana
at Baton Rouge.  At the age of seventeen years he went to work on his
father's plantation in West Feliciana parish, which he continued to
manage until his father's death.  He purchased his present property in
1890, on which he has since resided, the extent of this land amounting
to 840 acres on the Mississippi river, a short distance above Bayou
Sara, 600 acres of this property is well improved and in a fine state of
cultivation, and will average about 300 bales of cotton each year.  Mr.
Barrow was parish assessor of West Feliciana parish under Gov. McEnery
for two years, during 1887-88.  In 1877 he was married to his cousin, a
Miss Barrow, and by her is the father of the following children:  Bird,
Isabelle, Ruffin, Allcuer and Hale.  Mr. Barrow is a member of the K. of
H., and is one of the substantial business men of the parish and very
popular with all.  He was a captain in the Eleventh Louisiana regiment
during the Civil war, and was a participant in the battles of Belmont,
Shiloh, Forts Donelson and Henry.  He was wounded at Shiloh, and,
although the wound was painful, it was not very severe.

From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p.
263.
Submitted by Mike Miller